Post #725298 by danlovestikis on Wed, Aug 13, 2014 8:40 AM

tigertail777 thank you for the birthday wishes and shopping ideas.

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Here's a continuation of my Birthday Trip August 2014.
We left Reno and headed back towards Lake Tahoe.
The mountains and desert were beautiful. Here we found a look out to climb up too.

The view of the Carson Valley.

We made it to Virginia City.

I've seen buckets of blood ceramics in antique stores and now we know where they come from.

In an antique store Dan found a Hawaii boat.

In a bar window they had this lei and plastic tiki goblet display.

Now we headed to Carson City. On the way the clouds opened like a cave to the sun.

In Carson City we saw this liquor store and I made a stop for photos.

Just as the highway was leading us out of Carson City I saw a wonderful site. Last October during our Sacramento Crawl we were traveling the freeway to Davis. We came upon a trailer with a Moai and a Sphinx. We were so excited to see them. Later Tiki Hula found them on-line. They were being taken to Burning Man to be set on fire. He later found a post that said they didn't burn well.

I found them again!!!

Sill on the trailer after a whole year has gone by.

The fire damage was interesting.

I'm so happy they survived.

A majestic face.

You can see how huge they are in comparison to me.

A different view.

The next morning we left to go home. We stopped in Placerville. Instead of walking the main street we went down the alley behind.
There were pretty trails up the hill.

I found a gold mine but I didn't venture inside.

ebTiki here is Dan's haul from all the stops.

The Maori statue and coasters are plastic.

I had a wonderful birthday trip and now it's time to finish the Sacramento Crawl mugs. Dan's thrilled that he once again got all the presents. He's back to tiki arraigning.

Cheers, Wendy