DAY 6 WESTERN STATES RIDE

Stayed late this morning everyone did laundry and minor maintenance didn’t leave until well after ten.

Headed east towards Lake Tahoe and quickly started climbing into snow covered mountains. Drove over Donnor Pass and soon found ourselves with four to six foot snow drifts on the side of the road. Dropped down into Incline Village on the north end of Tahoe it’s no wonder people like to come here, it’s beautiful. They were still skiing in the mountains but the large winter crowds have left and the summer crowds not yet arrived. The lake is full of buoys devoid of boats the docks are empty and many of the homes along the shore still shuttered.

Leaving Lake Tahoe headed down the hill to Carson City the capitol of Nevada, not much to look at. Leaving we headed into the hills again and several miles of twistys latter were in Virginia City home of the Ponderosa. Virginia City was full of motorcycles on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. It is a favorite local ride a combination of Jerome, Sedona, and Bisbee. Then it was back into the mountains onto another great road CA state route 20 ending the day in Yuba City back in the flat lands. We are only 20 or 30 miles north of where we started this morning but close to 300 miles on the odometer somewhere northeast of Sacramento.