Lake Tahoe

As mentioned earlier, we have had a couple of quiet days after arriving in Reno last Wednesday.  We stopped at the Freightliner shop mid-afternoon and got into their schedule for Thursday.  It turns out that we had no major issues.  Routine maintenance and some clean filters took care of the issues we were concerned about.

 

We are settled in at the campground.  The casino is a short walk away.  Here is a picture of the motorhome in the campground.

  

We have taken the time to find our way around town and do some shopping.  We have also had the chance to meet a number of our new neighbors, many of whom are already working at Amazon.  They all say similar things: the 10-hour days are a long time to be on your feet, but the work is fairly mindless.  We won’t have to deal with people or computers, just put products on the shelf, over and over again.

 

Tomorrow is our first day of orientation and safety training.  We will learn the final details about start and finish times, break times, scheduled days and overtime days.  We will spend 8 hours tomorrow but our normal workday will be 10 hours.    

 

For our last day off, we took a fairly short drive over the Mt Rose Highway to the shores of Lake Tahoe.

 

    

We have seen lots of lakes to compare this year:

            - Flathead covers more surface area

            - Tahoe is deepest

            - Crater Lake is clearest

We drove most of the 72 miles around the lake, south along the Nevada shore, stopping for lunch at the state line, and continuing north along the California shore before returning to Reno.  The scenery was spectacular.  There were also many homes that were spectacular.  We suspect that there are many celebrities with homes here. 

 

Here is another photo from the overlook at Emerald Bay, with the only island in the lake right behind us.

 

It was another great weather day for sightseeing, with clear skies and daytime temps in the high 60’s.  Even though Reno is over 4,000 ft in elevation, morning temperatures have remained just above freezing.