Day 14 of our 2018 Jumbo Road Trip.
Sparks, NV to Glenbrook, NV (AKA South Lake Tahoe.) This was our shortest driving day, less than 60 miles and that was taking the scenic route, so we had a lot of time to kill before we could check-in at the Airbnb. First was we chilled in the hotel room all the way until 9:30 AM instead of 7:30, then we did some geocaching in Virginia City, followed by more geocaching in the state capital, Carson City. We found three in each place.
The ones in Virginia City were a bit more entertaining because just walking around town was a chore. It is a mining town situated on the top of a mountain, 6,150 feet up a windy road, where three blocks in one direction was a gain/drop of 10 feet in elevation, three blocks perpendicular was a gain/drop of 150 feet! In the middle of the 1800s when silver was found in the surrounding hills the town’s peak population was 25,000, now it has under a thousand people living there. If NV341, the city’s main street were unpaved and you squinted your eyes a bit, you could almost pretend it was still 1860, the sidewalks are still wood…
When we came down the mountain we ended up in Nevada’s capital city, without even realizing it. That is how our east coast bias is, I think we just assumed it was Las Vegas. The caches here were the usual magnetic micros and we normally don’t care for them, but it was Sunday and there was very little going on. After a leisurely lunch we drove up another big hill to get to Lake Tahoe.
We got to the place we are renting for the week at 2:00 PM, which was 2 hours earlier than the stated check-in time. We looked in the window and it looked clean, there was nobody about, so we opened the door and started moving our stuff in. By the time we supposed to be able to officially check-in, 4:00 PM, we had already unloaded the car, been to the grocery store, put everything away and had settled in front of the TV.