City by the Bay

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA: Hello, comrades. Today was a relatively easy day of travel. I left Reno around 9:00 and drove a short distance west to Tahoe City, California. I had heard that the Lake Tahoe area was beautiful, and those rumors proved correct. The drive from I-80 to the lake was though a federal forest, and trees and a small river lined both sides of the road. The lake itself was very pretty with many campgrounds and hotels ringing its shores. I spent a bit of time there, and I think that this spot alone might have been worth it's own vacation.


My next stop was Sacramento. Tim, who I was crashing with in Berkeley, was still at work, so I needed to eat lunch and kill some time. I parked downtown and walked around in Old Town Sacramento, a restored downtown area that is made to resemble the city about one hundred years ago. Lots of good places for a tourist to hang out. I still needed lunch, so I wandered into a place that turned out to be rather fancier than I'd thought. I suspected at first that the hostess would throw garbage at me on account of my bedraggled appearance, but instead they agreed to seat me and I resolved to use my better manners. The food was very good, and the meal proceded without incident.

I then drove to Berekely in the first real traffic I had encountered on this trip. Tim met me by the exit ramp, and we drove back the house he shares with his roommates. It's a nice old place with a little back yard and an impressive video gaming system. As the hours progressed, members of Tim's college diaspora assembled and we all went to dinner at the Nepali restaurant, then repaired back to the house for the aforementioned video games. I still suck at Mario cart.