2017 Travel out West

We arrived in Verdi, Nevada on Monday, June 19th.  Verdi is just north of Lake Tahoe and  Tahoe City.  Yesterday, we went to Lake Tahoe and rode around the lake for awhile.  We stopped at Tahoe City first because one of us had to have a coffee.  Not just an ordinary cut of coffee but a special cup that you cannot buy at a service station.  We then traveled to Emerald Cove, at the south end of the lake near South Tahoe.  The area was so crowded that we could not find a parking place to stop and take photos, so we went on to Camp Richardson.  We ate lunch at the Beacon Bar and Grill and it was a great meal.  I had some of the best fried fish that I have had it a long time and Cindy had a tuna melt that was good also.  The restaurant was on the water and we had a great view of the lake and little beach area. After lunch we headed back to Verdi and to our surprise the traffic was better and there were parking spaces at Emerald Cove....

We arrived in Coarsegold, Ca. on Wednesday, June 13.  We spent the first day setting up and getting things organized.  The people at the RV Resort are all very nice and have taken good care of us.  It is part of the Escapees Clubs which Cindy and I are members of and the organization is great.  They have invited us to a Father’s Day celebration they are having and a social supper they have every Friday night.  Coarsegold is not far from the south entrance to Yosemite National Park.  It is very convenient staying here.  Coarsegold was established in 1849 during the gold rush of that era and was named so because the information we received the gold discovered here was coarse because of the running snow water from the mountains made it that way.  Or so says the information we received. Yosemite gets very crowded during the summer and everyone we talked with said if we were going there we should leave early.  Also, there has been a...