Western Skies and Island Currents
From the Desert to the Mountains to the Sea and all the Pristine Rivers, Lakes and Islands in Between.
Luke Curran compared the cost of living in Lake Tahoe to other real estate markets. “As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords.” – Mark Twain An excerpt from Book Five in “The …
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Looking back in hindsight the realtor consensus pegged 2012 as the bottom of the market. Depressed home pricing motivated buyers due to historically low-interest rates which averaged 3.657% for 30 year fully amortized conforming loans. An excerpt from Book Five in “The Knowledge Path Series” dedicated to helping you find the place of your …
Packed in SUVs like sardines, they imagine sliding and skiing and all the fun they bring chasing runs when the lifts open. Yup, Gold Hill. And, then finally Virginia City, brief home of Samuel Clemens where he became Mark Twain. Part One: Tahoe An excerpt from Book Five in “The Knowledge Path Series” dedicated to …
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Somebody estimated the sheer volume of water could cover the an area as large as the entire state of California more than 12 inches deep. Nevada owns the water, the shoreline and the gambling on the right, eastern side — roughly a third of Lake Tahoe itself. An excerpt from Book Five in …
At the end of an hour it approached a jutting cape, and Higby ran ahead and posted himself on the utmost verge and prepared for the assault. The agony that alkali water inflicts on bruises, chafes and blistered hands, is unspeakable, and nothing but greasing all over will modify it– but we ate, drank …
“… picturesque turret-looking masses and clusters of a whitish, coarse-grained rock that resembles inferior mortar dried hard …” Shuttling as much as he did between Carson City and Virginia City, it was San Francisco that captured his imagination – but it was Mono Lake that almost killed him – and his curiosity. An excerpt …
“See the bear?” she asks. The kids’ eyes widened like saucers. “Yeah,” she continued. “They wrecked our car carrier and coolers … “ No sense crying over spilled milk, right? An excerpt from Book Five in “The Knowledge Path Series” dedicated to helping you find the place of your dreams in the Sierra Mountain resorts. We spent …
Somewhere past Sacramento and Placerville, but before reaching the Lake Tahoe valley we witnessed a blackened forest surrounding new homes during construction and post wildfire ash covered terrain. Neither one of our 5-year or 8-year olds liked the hike very much – climbing the mile trail to get there. An excerpt from Book Five …
“ATTENTION! Moose In This Area.” Pop Quiz: Which of the following signs signal that when a moose sees you and walks slowly towards you something bad is going to happen — to you? An excerpt from Book Four in “The Knowledge Path Series” dedicated to helping you find the place of your dreams in the …
“When you turned us perpendicular to the steep drop and the loose gravel spun the tires so we lost traction, we tilted over so far I thought we might slide and flip the SUV with us in it.” Dave McCoy and McGee Mountain: The 1930’s Origin Story of Sierra Nevada Alpine Skiing. The next …