Camped at Tahoe

I am camped at the Camp Richardson Resort at South Lake Tahoe. The sites are set among tall pines and are very clean and neat. They have me in an RV site as I wanted electric to run my "binford" CPAP machine for sleeping. There are lots of tents around though and last night as I was walking back from getting a shower a black bear walked right through my camp site. Each site has a steel bear proof box that you have to lock all food in when you are not in the site. I tried to crawl in there and sleep, but I was simply too big. I hope the bear is a vegetarian and is not looking for a large meal of tasty "big guy" becuause there was one sleeping in the tent not more than 10 feet from the food box. :-) Oh well, I survived to post this to the blog so all is well that ends well. I have always been amazed at the number of foreign travelers you meet in these campgrounds. Bill and I met a number last year on the Alaska trip that had rented motor homes and were traveling the west. I stopped to talk to a family near the bath house and they were from Switzerland. They had a rented motorhome and were traveling for a month. The rental agency did not allow them to take the unit through Death Valley, so they were seeking some route guidance on how to get to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon. They seemed disappointed at not getting to see Death Valley. I told them that all they had to do was go 40 miles east of Tahoe in the Nevada desert and they would have seen it. Dealth Valley is not on my list of favorate places as it looks like the entire state of Nevada basically. It's claim to fame is being below sea level, but you have no sense of altitude when you are sitting in the middle of a desert anyway. I suggested they not cry over it and definitely get to the Grand Canyon. They will not be disappointed! Very nice people and their two children are getting an education of a lifetime.
Well, I was thinking of going over to Santa Rosa, CA and visiting with a former neighbor and classmate from High School (Suzie Lamb Carr) but she is leaving today to head back to Pittsburgh to visit with her sister. Suzie and her sisters grew up two doors from me when we all lived in Nursery Park. I have not seen her since graduation from High School, but we had a nice chat,got caught up on each others lives and those of a few close classmates. Maybe on another trip or at our next reunion we will finally catch up.
Since I now have a few days to kill before my appointment with Russell to have my seat built in Shasta Lake, I think I am going to stay here in Tahoe and swim in the lake. Everyone says it is very cold, but they don't know me well. This old polar bear used to SCUBA dive under the ice in the strip mines near Slipery Rock, PA. It can't be that cold can it? I did not see any ice, but the mountains still have snow on them so I would imaging the snow melt in flowing into the lake.. Heck it has at least a mile or two to flow so it has to be warm right?