Quickie Anniversary Weekend Trip
Sep. 24th, 2021 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerThis weekend is our anniversary. Hawk and I have been together for 27 years, officially married for 15 of them. We're celebrating with a quick weekend trip. Tonight we'll drive up to Truckee, California.
"WTF is Truckee?" you might ask. "Do you drive there in your caree on the roadee?" Well, the town's name is derived from that of a native Paiute chief and spelled phonetically in frontier English. It has nothing to do with trucks. But more to the point, Truckee is a town just over the crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It's an excellent jumping-off point to Lake Tahoe to the south and the Gold Lakes Basin to the north. We'll spend the weekend hiking out there.
This trip also has a special relevance to the occasion. We were hiking in the Gold Lakes Basin when we decided to get married, and we were staying in Truckee that weekend. This weekend we'll even stay at the same hotel!
"WTF is Truckee?" you might ask. "Do you drive there in your caree on the roadee?" Well, the town's name is derived from that of a native Paiute chief and spelled phonetically in frontier English. It has nothing to do with trucks. But more to the point, Truckee is a town just over the crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It's an excellent jumping-off point to Lake Tahoe to the south and the Gold Lakes Basin to the north. We'll spend the weekend hiking out there.
This trip also has a special relevance to the occasion. We were hiking in the Gold Lakes Basin when we decided to get married, and we were staying in Truckee that weekend. This weekend we'll even stay at the same hotel!
