Have ticket, will travel...

So, I'm off to Lake Tahoe, California at the end of this week. Woot!

Just got my dollars, and er....when did they change the money!? You'd think someone might have mentioned, or that we'd have heard? Someone could have mentioned that dollars are no longer Green! At least in their entirety. Pfft.

Aaaannyway.

So my amigo is flying in next Wednesday, after my Tahoe conference, and then we are heading straight over to San Francisco - via the Napa Silverado Trail route, Muir Woods (to see some Redwoods) and then entering The City from the North, over the bridge.

Three days and three nights to get up to mischief in The City, then it's back on the road again to Manteca, Jamestown (Jimtown ;-) and Sonora (old Gold Rush towns), then to Yosemite, where we have a cabin. The cabin, in Curry Village, is more or less EXACTLY the size of two double beds, and it does of course contain only two double beds. This doesn't leave much room for anything else, though if the extra cost of a cabin (over, say, a tent) means that the sound of splintering wood wakes me before the Bear eats me, I'm all the happier.

We leave via the Tioga Pass. This is a road that gets blocked with snow, rockslides and the odd Moose/Bear/State Trooper. It clings perilously to the mountain sides, á l'Italian Job. Good views though. Very good views. We then do a loop of June Lake, because that's what you do apparently, then up to Mono Lake and up along the Eastern Sierra Scenic Byway to Virginia City, Nevada, where I'm meeting Ben and Hoss Cartwright for a beer out on the Ponderosa ;-) Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Got a night in Reno before a killer early morning flight out, now what ever will we do with ourselves in Reno. Hum...?