Challenge day

Early this morning I’m drinking my coffee and psyching myself up for an 8 to 9 mile hike from the Emerald Bay trailhead up to Velma Lakes with Mark. It’s not the 8 or 9 miles that I consider the challenge; it’s hiking with Mark :-). See, his stride is a foot or two longer […]

Lake Tahoe vacation

We’ve checked in to our Tahoe City rental house, moved all our supplies in (to the second floor—why’d I bring so much stuff), and what a surprise, there’s wireless DSL. Of course, it didn’t work. But Mark, being internet savvy, poked around at the router settings for a bit, and now it’s working great. We’ll […]

Family vacation: McCall, Idaho

We wanted to spend a week in Idaho and friends pointed us to McCall as a beautiful location (and it is). Planning began back in March and we started searching for a 4 bedroom house to rent for a week. We settled on a rental by owner, and it wasn’t until after I had sent […]