Wednesday, September 7, 2016

LABOR DAY WEEKEND  2016
This year we started Labor Day weekend a little early!! We left town and headed to Lake Tahoe on Thursday after Jacob got done with school. We have always talked about hiking Horse Tail Falls, and this was the year we were going to do it!! John had hiked this as a youth, but Jacob and I have never done this hike before. It was a beautiful day and the falls were amazing. We were surprised how far up you have gone when you look back at the bottom. After hiking for over 2 hours we head on our way to Lake Tahoe. Let the fun begin!!
 John and I had watched this show about "Ghost Towns" and the urban myths about them. Bodie California was one of the "Ghost Towns" that was mentioned on the show. As legend has it, Bodie was a town that became famous because of the GOLD that was found there in the mines. People came from all over the world to live in this town. The mine eventually closed up and the few remain towns people moved away. But the town is haunted by those who are still searching for the GOLD. And supposable visitors are welcomed to visit but those who have removed things from this little town bring the curse of BAD LUCK!! On the show there were people who had decided that they wanted to test this urban legend out.... People had taken rocks, old bottles, cans, signs etc.....
Well sure enough, they said the curse was upon them and the curse did not leave them until they had returned such item that they had taken. We had googled to see where this town was, and found out it was just a little drive from Lake Tahoe..... Made the bucket list of things to do when in Lake Tahoe, but I made everyone promise not to take anything!! We don't need any BAD LUCK around here!!
There were a few old trucks around on the property and some pretty cool buildings. I'm not sure why anyone would want to live in this town, there wasn't a lake very close by, one would have had to do some major traveling up mountains and over very rough terrain to get into this little valley. I'm still amazed at how big this "Ghost Town" had been back in it's day.

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