{"id":90,"date":"2005-09-19T23:20:36","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T23:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2005-10-03T03:22:50","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T03:22:50","slug":"lake-tahoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/19\/lake-tahoe","title":{"rendered":"Lake Tahoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/california-2005-week-7-tahoe\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/albums\/california-2005-week-7-tahoe\/p9192375.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Tahoe before sunrise\" title=\"Lake Tahoe before sunrise\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Lake Tahoe is a beautiful place. I drove from Reno as night was falling, so did not see the lake at all until this morning. After looking at the map, I had planned to stay in Crystal Bay, but was so horrified by the bright flashing lights and number of casinos that I drove a little further to Kings Bay, the first place across the border in California. California regulates gambling much more strictly than Nevada, so there were no casinos.<br \/>\nI got up early to see sunrise&nbsp;&#8211; too early! I waited on the lakeshore for about an hour in quite low temperatures. Even wearing my fleece, I was cold. The view and atmosphere were worth it, though.<br clear=\"left\"\/><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/california-2005-week-7-tahoe\/p9192485\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/albums\/california-2005-week-7-tahoe\/p9192485.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"A dead tree by the side of the Truckee River\" title=\"A dead tree by the side of the Truckee River\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\"\/><\/a>I drove down the west side of the lake, through Tahoe City (population: not very many), where I missed my turn, driving up the picturesque Truckee River valley for a few miles until I realised that the road was not about to head back to the lakeshore. It was worth the diversion, however.<br clear=\"left\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/california-2005-week-7-tahoe\/p9192530_Emerald_Bay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/albums\/california-2005-week-7-tahoe\/p9192530_Emerald_Bay.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Emerald Bay\" title=\"Emerald Bay\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\"\/><\/a>The next place to make a great impression on me was the beautiful Emerald Bay; I stopped twice to take photos from different viewpoints, and spent time just enjoying the view and praising God for his creation.<br clear=\"left\"\/><br \/>\nThe rest of the drive down Lake Tahoe was pleasant, and I stopped many times to look and enjoy the view. After a while, though, looking at pine trees on a lakeshore became somewhat repetetive, no matter how beautiful the scene. I also aimed to be in or close to Yosemite for the night, so had to move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Tahoe is a beautiful place. I drove from Reno as night was falling, so did not see the lake at all until this morning. After looking at the map, I had planned to stay in Crystal Bay, but was so horrified by the bright flashing lights and number of casinos that I drove a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/19\/lake-tahoe\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lake Tahoe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagebuch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}