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Travel Bite #1: A winter drive through the Eastern Sierra, USA
Welcome to the first of my “travel bites” – short travelogues focussing on a particular place I’ve been.
In mid-December Mrs. Alex and I took a road trip through a large chunk of southwestern USA. For me the highlight was the spectacular scenery we encountered as we drove down US 395 through the Eastern Sierra, from Lake Tahoe past Mono Lake and onwards south into the Owens Valley and then east towards Death Valley.
Lake Tahoe
We arrived in Lake Tahoe just before sunset, having taken route 50 east from Sacramento.
We found a waterfront park, closed for the season but accessible on foot. We trudged across the snow covered sand to the water’s edge and watched the sun go down.
Carson City & Lake Topaz
After dark we drove to Carson City, a sort of Blackpool version of Las Vegas, where we spent the night in a motel that seemed to have been left unchanged since the 80s.
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An amazing overhead view of the UK’s extreme snows
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