A Karmic Trip

The trip we took to Silver Lake was truly one of those karmic events. The day before we were to leave, we looked at the weather reports for the Sierras and saw that there was a real possibility of thunder storms. Not wanting to get caught in such storms while on a motorcycle, we decided to take Eileen's Infiniti FX-35. We had a great drive up to Silver Lake (of course no thunder storms) and spent a very relaxing two days at the Kit Carson lodge. On Thursday we hiked into Granite Lake. It was just a little over a mile in, but worth the walk. I'm including pictures of Silver Lake and Granite Lake.

Silver Lake

Granite Lake

We then went to our place in Truckee, and on Saturday we went into Reno to look at the BMW X3, which Eileen was thinking about leasing to replace the FX-35, her lease ending in September. To make a long story short, we got a tremendous deal on an X3, including them buying out Eileen's lease so that we could take the X3 home and be done with the Infiniti (which was a great car, by the way).

Anyway, the point is that none of that would or could have happened if we had taken the motorcycle as originally planned. It's so weird and wonderful when that kind of stuff happens. When we left, we had absolutely no idea that we would be driving a brand new BMW home. Life is such a gas sometimes.

~ Tom