Yes we are back at Spooner Lake, Lake Tahoe Nevada State Parks area….  We prematurely left our last hosting job due to it not working out for us. It did not meet our expectations. The host that was supposed to take over our position at Spooner Lake backed out and left it open for Jodi and I to return for the rest of the summer.. Things do work out for a reason. It was meant to be for us to be back at Lake Tahoe area.. We will be hosting in the area for another two and a half months, till the end of October.  So much fun being here……

We stopped in Sacramento, CA for a few days before getting to Knight’s Ferry and checked out the train station where part of old Sacramento is located and where the Transcontinental Railroad started. The first Transcontinental Railroad” was joined on May 10, 1869, with the ceremonial driving of the “Last Spike” at Promontory Summit, Utah, after track was laid over a 1,756 mile gap between Sacramento and Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa in six years by the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad. We took some pictures.

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Part of the Old Sacramento when it was in the 1800’s… Saloons, Hardware and other stores owned by part of the Big 4 that made the Railroads possible. Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker–had to wait a few years for the pay-off on their seed money for Central Pacific. When the transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, the four investors laughed all the way to the bank. Collis P. Huntington and Mark Hopkins formed a partnership and opened a hardware store shown below….

The Recreation area that we were at was very beautiful and had lots of history. Below I posted some pictures of the park and its surrounding beauty.  This is the Stanislaus river that travels through the park and makes rapids rafting a big attraction in that area. The park has the longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi.. It was built in 1863 and is 330 feet in length. We went through this covered bridge every day to get to work.

Knights Ferry Recreation Area

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Back at SPOONER LAKE

We really did enjoy being up here at Spooner Lake because it’s beautiful here and cooler, and it’s just flat out FUN being hosts here. Great Rangers and Staff at Lake Tahoe Nevada State Parks. If you have a bucket list, this has to be one of them to visit…

We started working again about a week ago here at Spooner Lake and Lake Tahoe area, the many hiking trails all over the Tahoe area that we help take care of and manage. They call it the Back Country. We have a few primitive campgrounds that we take care of and two lakes that we help manage. This place is so beautiful.  We had a chance to check out some more of this back country that Spooner Lake has to offer.  I recently took some more pictures of this beautiful place. The pictures posted here are some of Marlette Lake with Lake Tahoe behind it… These photos I took were at  8,850 feet  elevation. We felt like we were on top of the world..

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Here are a few more pictures of part of the Back Country looking north and South part of Lake Tahoe, called the Monkey Rock..

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This is the Monkey Rock, Yes it looks just like a Monkey Face…

We are trying to set up our next hosting job for the winter, we pulled out of the one we had set up for Fresno, CA because it did not sound like it was going to be very safe and not too fun for us, so we are now in the process of looking for another winter job somewhere around south Nevada or Arizona. FLASH FLASH… We may have just lined up a hosting job at a place outside of Yuma Arizona. Check it out!!  The place is called Castle Dome Mining Museum.  Click on this link………http://www.castledomemuseum.org . Fingers crossed on getting the position. It sounded promising and sounds like fun. You will see by checking out the site… We are so excited about the possibility taking this on for the winter…. November  to April of 2020…. We are also looking forward to doing our summer in Washington State… Will let you know where when we know… So much fun and adventures awaiting us for the next year……

Stay tuned and find out more info on where we will be spending our Winter…

The Bobble Head Travelers,  Mark and Jodi

Hello everyone!! Hope all are trying to have a nice summer. We are finally enjoying ours up here near Lake Tahoe. Now we only have about 7 more days left and we head to our next host spot in California. Knights Ferry, it’s an Army Corp of Engineer day use park. We have been having a great time up here at Spooner Lake, Tahoe Nevada State Park. We have done a lot of good things for this park to get ready for the many hikers to hike the 2.8 miles around Spooner Lake, and this is also a trail head for the many other trails that overlook Lake Tahoe, The famous Marlette Lake flume trail, plus the 165 mile Tahoe Rim Trail that goes all around Lake Tahoe.

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This is some of the work we have done in the park.. Our main concern in this park is to maintain and clear the hiking and biking trails. Plus we are to clean and maintain 3 primitive campgrounds up the trails along with 2 nice log cabin rentals.

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This is a trail map of all the trails that we are to maintain and clean up. Spooner lake is at the bottom of the Map.. All up and down these trails is where you can get the best views of Lake Tahoe. That is where some of the pictures you see of mine of the Flume Trail and Marlette Lake..

Jodi and I have done some awesome site seeing while we have been here, and I want to highlight some of the sites we have seen and done.

We went down to Carson City and have seen a few places. We stopped at the train museum and have seen some of the old trains that were involved in the connection of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad making it a completed Transcontinental Railroad back in 1869… We went on a nice train ride in one of the old trains that was built back in the late 1800s.. While on our trip we saw some wild horses, deer and lots of history. We went by some old mines getting to Virginia City. 

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We recently drove all the way around Lake Tahoe; A driving tour with our own truck and drove clock wise. We got to a few scenic areas and most were so packed, we couldn’t even stop. We did our best and did see some nice spots.

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All around our park we have lots of wild flowers popping up. The snow finally has gone and the flowers are blooming. We have some squirrels that look like chipmunks and they love our bird feeder.

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We had a chance to go up one of the trails that they call the Marlette Flume Trail. It is famous for mountain bikes to go and see the views of Lake Tahoe. It is a very scary cliff trail; make one mistake you’re dead kind of trail… we checked it out… Got some real beautiful pictures of that trail and Marlette lake. Marlette Lake is 7,823 Feet  in elevation.. Still snow up here in June/July….

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Well in a few weeks we will be on our way to a new hosting position in California. Heading to another new place and another adventure. We have not even scratched the surface of all the amazing places to see in the beautiful country of ours..

Going to leave you with some more of my pictures of this awesome place they call Lake Tahoe….

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Stay tuned and when we arrive in California and settled in to our new location. I will add some good information to our blog….

Enjoy your summer and Happy 4^th of July, be safe and get ready for some interesting weather for the rest of the year.  

The Bobble Head Travelers,   Mark and Jodi