Harvey's Casino Hotel
State Line, Nevada (across the street from South Lake Tahoe, CA)
Miles: 11
Trip: 419
If either of us was missing the sights and sounds of city life, we've now been satisfied - stuffed to the gills, actually. Tahoe has 15 of everything, it seems. Grocery stores, restaurants, tattoo parlors...even a chain of stores that sell everything related to alpaca wool. Just choosing a hotel was a tiring, overwhelming ordeal. I would have rather stayed on the less touristy end of town, at the Apex Inn with its reputation for being hiker-friendly, and having a hot tub! Bad Andrew had some strong cravings for buffets and a movie, and a hotel centrally located to both. So we ended up at a flashy casino hotel, where we have to wade through a blinding sea of slot machines to get to our room. As a couple on the trail, compromise is king. And queen.
I'm still bewildered by the amount of interest we spark in others, the curiosity our hike inspires. Yesterday at Carson's Pass visitor center, where we stopped to cook dinner, a woman actually asked if she could watch us eat. She commented on the hugeness of my pack, suggesting that we cook dinner together on the same stove to lighten our load. What she didn't know is that sharing meals with Shaggy is a dangerous business. Either he gets all he needs and you go hungry, or he holds back and you get a hungry Shaggy. No thanks, lady. Then the woman checking us in at the casino expressed her fascination with questions like, "But where do you sleep?" Apparently our trip is an incomprehensible oddity to some. And here I thought we were just walking.
Shaggy says:
Tahoe today. We got in really early and are staying at one of the big casinos. Pretty crazy being in such a hoppin place. We will head out on the trail again tomorrow, after a bit more food and fun tomorrow morning. Excited to get out and see some new trail. This is where my trip ended in 2006. Now I begin a new exciting leg of this trip. Very excited to feel healthy, happy, and still have money.
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| Lake Tahoe! It might as well be the ocean for how enormous it looked from the trail. |
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| Shaggy knows how to class up any situation. |
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| Zero thought this was the creepiest life-size statue of a roller-skating putt-putt hostess he'd ever seen. I agreed. |
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| These be for gaarrrrrrbage..... |
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