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Highway 50: There’s Snow in Them Thar Hills!

Oct 27th, 2010
by Margaret.

You thought I died, didn’t you. DIDN’T YOU?

You wish. Then you could come over here and steal my blog posts and awesome million dollar advertising campaigns like soldiers stealing shoes off dead men in war. Well, this blogosphere is a war of sorts and the competition for eyeballs is cut throat so I don’t even blame you.

But the truth of the matter is I have a writing gig for realz (as in, for actual money) and if I can’t can’t chew gum and walk at the same time, what makes you think I can blog and write for realz at the same time? Also, I am on vacation in Lake Tahoe (internet robbers don’t get excited, I left my husband and killer doberman pinscher [how do you spell pinscher? why do I think there is an "s" in there?] at home)

So anyway, driving to South Lake Tahoe isn’t bad as long as you don’t do it on a Friday night with the rest of the world, and you don’t do it during ski season, and you don’t do it during a snowstorm, and you don’t do it when chains are required. Highway 50 often parallels the American River so I jumped out at one point to take a picture for you.

American River along Highway 50

At least I think that’s the American River, how would I know? Does this look like the American River to you? Here’s another shot looking down river. Now does it look like the American River?

American River along Highway 50

Oh, who cares. My point is that it’s pretty. And I pulled over just for YOU. God knows you’ve pulled over for me enough times to catch that perfect goat shot.

Highway 50 is a very pretty drive in general, winding through the El Dorado National Forest and about eleventy million pine trees.

Highway 50, pine treesYou can click to enlarge any of these photos.

Somewhere along this curvy pine tree-laden road is the small town of Kyburz. How small is it you ask?

Kyburz, California on Highway 50

I was supposed to leave for Tahoe on Sunday, but I had to wait until Monday because the ONE DAY I planned to drive up there, which requires that you climb a 7,000 foot high mountain in your car, SOMEBODY (not me) decided that it would rain like mad with 120 MPH wind gusts. And I’m glad I didn’t drive up on Sunday because it also did this!

Snow along Highway 50

It was about the time I saw this snow that I realized I’d forgotten to pack a jacket. And since I’m not one to turn around and go back home if I’m more than 100 yards from my house, you can bet I wasn’t going to do it at the 87 mile point either. I thought, well, maybe it’s not that cold. I mean the sun is out and the storm is gone, surely we’ll go back to being our warm seventy-degree something selves, right? I checked my dashboard.

It's cold! Brrrr!!!!

Yikes! I don’t suppose anybody knows an inexpensive jacket shop at the BEGINNING of winter in this ski resort town?

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  • Mjgolch

    Nope,but than again I have not been out in that neck of the woods in over 30 years.

  • Anonymous

    Oh man, it looks like the American River from this angle. Or did I mean AN American river? Yeah, it looks like an American river, that kind you find in America.

    Sorry, no parka for ya, but I’m sending good parka hunting thoughts as you vacay in one of my favorite American spots of all time. Love, love South Lake Tahoe. Careful driving there, Margaret.

  • http://maniaravings.com Jaffer

    40F/4C (thanks Google) temperatures and without a jacket ?
    Please marinate yourself now before freezing up. We don’t like frozen Nanny Goats go un-BBQed and go to waste.

  • http://cowpattysurprise.blogspot.com Nezzy

    It looks like the American River to me!!! No jacket, poor baby. Ya might as well hold up your hands and relinquish your money, credit cards and first born to find a great deal at a ski resort!!! Burrrrrrrr….

    Have a great time and gather the blog fodder baby!

    God bless ya’ll :o )

  • Stimey

    If I’m out of my driveway I won’t turn around for ANYTHING. Except probably I’d go back if I forgot one of my kids. But otherwise…

  • http://drew.mykitchentable.net Drew

    I didn’t think you died because I never received any email from an old volleyball teammate… And I’m glad I never received that email because if I had and I did have to make the hardest phone call I ever had to make, you wouldn’t have been home to answer and I can’t even image where that would leave me now.

    And yes, that looks just like the American River — the south fork of the American River to be exact.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    In addition to the Tuscan I also have a Tahoe. It’s old and has a bazillion miles on it but it rocks because after two major accidents it’s been rebuilt so even after 12 years there isn’t any rust. Which has nothing to do with this post except that you are once again on vacation, in a state which one of my vehicles is named after and I feel compelled to talk about them because even though it is all about you here, in my little world it is all about me.

    And, we just got that storm. My flag is shredded and all my pumpkin bags are in the next neighborhood. It also snowed this morning. I’m glad you had a nice vacation tho.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    I can’t believe I did it again.

  • Nanny Anna

    Hi, I just discovered your blog today and I LOVE IT! I am the same way about turning back…100 yards from the house, oh yeah! That would be my limit too…sometimes not even that far, I just hate ‘turning around’.

    I do believe I can top your ‘Driving on Hwy 50 at Lake Tahoe in the storm story. I made my first solo motorcycle ride (hubs was on his own bike) 6 months after getting my getting my motorcycle license, on a new bike, over Donner Pass, in April, in a snow, sleet, hail, freezing rain storm when the temps were below freezing. I thought I was going to die, and someone was going to have to eat my frozen flesh to survive. (like the Donner Party) I actually wished I would just wreck and die because I was so frozen that I could not move my fingers (you need to move your fingers to operate a motorcycle by the way). It was the most horrible trip I have ever been on, and to be on a motorcycle as a newbie, made it that much worse.

    Why did I do this you might ask? Well because I was a naive newbie, suffering from an insane mid-life crisis, and my baby sister was graduating from college in California (I lived in Arizona at that time). Would I do it again??? Hell NO! But at least I lived to share the story with you, so it was all worth it.

    BTW, Tahoe IS beautiful in the Summer :)

    Anna (Nanny Anna that is)
    http://IamNannyAnna.blogspot.com

    Stop by and say hi!

  • Owen

    Hi Margaret, it’s been ages… now… I read this post carefully, and looked at all the pictures, but could not spot a single goat anywhere, let alone any nannies in panties. I think you will have to remedy that soon. I do have a goat or two up my sleeve which I’ll have to post one of these day, but I’ve been quietly going crazy of late, and am way behind. But am catching up. Or getting farther behind… oh, it doesn’t matter…

  • http://www.nannygoatsinpanties.com/ Margaret (nannygoats)

    30 years??? Where have you been all this time?

  • http://www.nannygoatsinpanties.com/ Margaret (nannygoats)

    one of YOUR favorite American spots? Or one of THE American spots? Or one of A American…oh forget it, that just doesn’t even make sense and I’m reaching.

  • http://www.nannygoatsinpanties.com/ Margaret (nannygoats)

    OK, but this Worcester Sauce smells like flowers on me. Is that supposed to happen?

  • http://www.nannygoatsinpanties.com/ Margaret (nannygoats)

    Yes, my next post will be about how I was jilted out of $1,200 for a fake mink ski parka. Lime green, no less. :)

  • http://www.nannygoatsinpanties.com/ Margaret (nannygoats)

    Ha! Not to one-up back and forth or anything, but I hesitate if I shut the front door and I’ve forgotten something on the way out to the car. I’m not sure what I’d do if I had kids. I guess I’d have to back inside and get them.

  • http://www.nannygoatsinpanties.com/ Margaret (nannygoats)

    oooooh, nice one. old volleyball teammate.

    and you are correct, Sir, you win a kewpie doll for correctly identifying the South Fork.

  • http://www.nannygoatsinpanties.com/ Margaret (nannygoats)

    hee hee! And you can bring your little world over here any time you want.

  • http://www.nannygoatsinpanties.com/ Margaret (nannygoats)

    Nanny Anna! How about that. My blog is named after you. Partially. Or something.

    That is a harrowing and awesome story you lived to tell there, lady.

  • http://www.nannygoatsinpanties.com/ Margaret (nannygoats)

    Oh my goodness, Owen! How the goodness gracious are you? Going crazy, I know. Sorry to hear that. I hope things settle down for you and I look forward to your next goat thing. Do let me know when that happens!

  • Slommler

    I think you are out of luck there on the jacket department. Prices will be sky high…but warmth is better. Get a jacket!!
    And that does look like the American River. Ha! And it is beautiful!
    Enjoy yourself!!
    Hugs
    SueAnn

  • http://unfinishedperson.com/category/unfinished-rambler Unfinished Rambler

    THE American River? Wow, you Californians (and Nevadians) sure are arrogant. Well, in the East, we have THE American Diner. I didn’t Google that, but I’m pretty sure it’s true, because that’s the way we Easterners roll.

  • http://maniaravings.com Jaffer

    As a history lesson to you my friend, the river was named by the early Spanish settlers who named it after the continent of the Americas. In that context, I think it is a very nice name.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001100501690 Linda Register

    Gorgeous pictures. Looks like you had a great trip in spite of the weather and being jacket-free. I’ve been vacationing too. At least I went some place warm.

  • http://injaynesworld.blogspot.com/ Jayne

    Great photos, but I really want to hear about the writing gig. Congrats!

  • http://injaynesworld.blogspot.com/ Jayne

    Great photos, but I really want to hear about the writing gig. Congrats!

  • http://wmljshewbridge.blogspot.com/ Lorie Shewbridge

    THIRTY-NINE???? Holy hell!! That is long-john weather, not just jacket weather. And what the heck is that white stuff??? Did you fly off to another planet of something?
    Good God woman, why would anyone want to visit such a part of the country. If it gets below 70 around here, I’m putting on my pants and long sleeves… Come on down to Florida where NORMAL people live…. Wait, I take that back, most of the people around here are NUTS!!
    Hope you had a great (and safe) trip!

  • http://www.bellebeanchicagodog.com/ Liz

    We probably won’t see those temps even once this winter down in my area.

  • http://www.bytesofginger.blogspot.com Ginger

    Hope you get some woolly warmth fast. We don’t want Nanny Goat in popsicles!

  • Ashleigh Burroughs

    I love driving to Tahoe - Rte 50 or Rte 80 - it doesn’t matter. The trees, the mountains and yes, even the snow in October. Can’t believe you left without a jacket — we always packed blankets and foodstuffs for when we (inevitably) got stuck on a close-due-to-weather road. Thanks for the photos.
    a/b

  • http://www.weworkforcheese.com Nicky

    Honestly, it depends on which kid you forgot.

  • http://www.weworkforcheese.com Nicky

    See, now your temperature gauge looks almost like mine, except mine has a minus sign before the 39.

    Yes, I’m exaggerating. Give it a month and I won’t be. Sigh. I hate winter.

    Nice pictures.

    Be careful of the eleventy million trees though. Linda says aliens live in the trees. She wrote it on the Internet, so you know it’s true.

    I biggified the pics and I didn’t see any aliens.

    Be careful, just the same.

  • gayle

    Love your beautiful pictures!! Wow snow already!!

  • http://mommamiameaculpa.com meleahrebeccah

    I cant write for realz and blog at the same time either. And once I leave the house I don’t turn back for ANYTHING! These photos are awesome. Thanks for taking the time to snap them for US. Looks like you had a wonderful trip in spite of the weather and being jacket-less!:)

  • http://feeds2.feedburner.com/cardiogirl/jkaK cardiogirl

    I *thought* you wrote, “And since I’m not one to turn around and go back home if I’m more than 100 MILES from my house…. And then I was all impressed with your tenacity. Then I realized I misread that.

    Um. I hope you were able to buy a new coat.

  • http://www.nannygoatsinpanties.com/ Margaret (nannygoats)

    Ha! You crack me up. If the truth be known I survived by staying inside all the time and wearing my sweatshirt if I went out. So while I did have a sweatshirt, a real winter jacket would have been MUCH warmer.

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