Road Trip resumed

After a very relaxing and enjoyable few days hanging in Chico, CA with my brother, his wife, and my two adorable nieces, Cole and I are back on the road.  Today was a perfect day to be traveling. It was clear, sunny, and relatively warm, well, warm for November at least.  The main attraction for today was Lake Tahoe, on the California/Nevada border.  We drove along the western and southern part of the lake and took a nice hike down to Vikingsholm Castle on Emerald Bay.  We found this little sign posted along the trail.

My medieval history is a little weak but didn't the plague kill millions and millions of people way back in the 1100 and 1200's or sometime around then? Isn't the plague supposed to be like, really bad?  So what the hell, if the plague killed millions during the dark ages, why is it that all they are doing to warn people is by posting a little piece of paper along some little trail telling us to not get bitten by fleas or play with the cute little chipmunks?  It would just be my luck to end up dying from the plague that I caught from some cute little chipmunk. I always had a sneaky suspicion that those cute little critters were evil and dangerous.


Something else that Cole noticed on our trip is it seems that in all these smaller towns we have traveled through, that there is an overwhelming majority of Mexican and Chinese or Thai restaurants. As an example, one of the little town we went through, I counted  5 Mexican, 3 Chinese, and 1 Thai restaurant. There was like 1 burger joint. I like Mexican food a lot and don't mind the occasional Chinese or Thai restaurant from time to time, but seriously, this is a bit ridiculous.

We are now stopped for the night in Yerington, NV. Tomorrow we are headed to Las Vegas. Not sure if we will spend the night there or not since we have to get to Tempe, AZ by Wed. night.