It’s now June and I’ve been at Lake Tahoe for 3 weeks. This place is the best, but some stuff is expensive. Like tourist expensive. It took some skill on my part to find the stores that offered the bargains. One example: close to where I was, within a mile, there was a ‘Medieval Faire’ set up. I walked over to the faire one fine Saturday and started to walk in. I was stopped and asked for my ticket. I didn’t have one so I ask “how much is the ticket”? The gate keeper answers $20.
So I ask, “What’s inside the faire that’s worth $20?”
She answers, “Oh, there’s food”.
I ask, “Don’t I have to pay for that?”
She answers, “Yes. Oh, there’s beer”, she says.
“Don’t I have to pay for that too?”, I ask.
“Yes”, she answers. But she can’t tell me what’s in the faire that might even be close to being worth the $20 ticket. In fact, she had never been into one of these yearly ‘faires’, just worked at them at the gate. She suggested I check at the ticket booth for more specific information.
Needless to say, I don’t go to the faire. Even the nearby ‘Information Booth’ can’t tell me what’s at the faire that might be worth $20 to see, and the information guy had never been to it either.
So, I don’t have any pictures from the faire. And from what I can see from the outside (they had 5′ high fences!) it’s just a bunch of little stalls where they sell you stuff. It damn sure ain’t worth $20 to see a bunch of retailers trying to sell me something while they are wearing 1400’s type clothes. Big deal. And that’s all there was to it. No rides or nuttin. Someone later mumbled that they had little period plays once an hour for free. Again…big deal. So instead I went to a local bar right on Lake Tahoe and had a great steak dinner. With spectacular view.
Here’s another shot of the beach after the snow melted. Looking south. If you look carefully you can just make out a building or two in South Lake Tahoe. It’s built up with casinos and multi-story hotels.
The weather is now warm and sunny so I take another trip down to the wetlands. Of course this is a wetland so there’s water. Sometimes to much.
Damn, here it comes again…
And then it goes…this house was the subject of a field trip we took. It’s been gifted to the forest service so they maintain it as a tourist destination.
