Girls Weekend Lake Tahoe - Part 3

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With very little sleep Monday night, we were up and at ‘em on Tuesday with items on the agenda.  After brunch at The Original Mel’s Diner, we headed to Truckee, California to hike the Historic Summit Tunnels, which is a 4+ mile hike out/back though tunnels built into the sides of the mountain.  

The tunnels have wall-to-wall artwork and graffiti, some appropriate and some not and a few of the tunnels contain bats.  We never saw any bats but you could hear them and you could smell them.  Yuck!  The details we learned ahead of time suggested a headlamp and there are some dark places in some of the longer tunnels.  There are four total tunnels and while the distance to hike all of them is quite long, the end of the hike is worth the views as you get to see the lake. 

Our drive south back to Tahoe took us along the southwest side of the lake where we stopped in Tahoe City to share a beer flight and have a bite of lunch at Tahoe Tap Haus. Outside the brewery was an ice cream trailer that served the best ice dream in the smallest containers I’ve ever seen.

The drive south was picturesque and at one points we had 360 views of water on all sides of the windy road, we just had to stop and snap a few pictures. 

We made a final repeat stop at South Lake Brewing Company as Phoenix had a Groupon to redeem for two pints and two souvenir pint glasses.  We chatted with a few people in the beer garden and enjoyed the misters to keep us cool.  Tahoe was having unseasonably warm weather.  

With exhaustion on our side, we stayed in for the night and went to bed early.  

Our last full day in Tahoe included the beach and drinks!  We went out with a bang spending the first part of the day at the beach with a tiki bar.  We also visited with a gal from Virginia who was there with her kids.  

After we had enough sun (for Phoenix and Nicole, I pretty much covered up and stayed in the shade) we had a bite to eat at Fox & Hound before getting dolled up for our last night in Tahoe.

Thanks to Uber, we were dropped off to wonder around on foot and landed at X Crows, a BBQ place and a hotel all-in-one that had live music. 

PorterHaus Music, a trio of brothers that just happened to grow up in Idaho, put on a great set. We met people from Texas and Nevada as we sat around the outdoor campfire chatting. Afterwards, one of the band members and one of the Texans wandered with us to two other bars before grabbing a bite to eat and catching a Lyft back to the condo.  PorterHaus Music will be in Boise later this year.

We made our way home and a last minute decision to stop at Say When as we knew they had clean bathrooms and I had hoped to get something to eat.  I had already lost so much money gambling what is a little more?  I put $10 into a $1 machine and own $150.  I cashed out and put $20 into the $1 machine next to it.  I won $480.  With $630 in my pocket, we headed towards home and after traveling over 1,200 miles in the car this week, that wrapped up Girls Weekend 2021.

We had a fabulous time and I am so thankful for my gal pals that came along for the fun.