West Coast Tour - part 4

On Day 6, we drove with Brooke's grandparents from Reno to Virginia City. Once a mining boomtown, Virginia City is now a tourist town with an abnormally high concentration of souvenir and ice creams shops....



We took a guided tour which took us 300 ft into a mine shaft....


It took Ryan a while, but he finally warmed up to his great-grandparents....


Day 7. Ryan woke up with some wild hair....



Later on Day 7, we drove to Lake Tahoe...




The water really lived up to its reputation for being crystal clear and blue. The only two things I didn't like about the Tahoe area is that:
(1) there were too few free public beaches. We finally found one at Kings Beach on the northern side of the lake.
(2) the photos don't show it, but the beaches are very rocky.



After Tahoe, we made a beeline for Medford, Oregon. Why Medford? It's the start of Oregon wine country along Interstate 5.