72 Hrs in Tahoe

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Recently, I took a girls trip with a few friends to south Lake Tahoe. With all of our crazy schedules we were only able to stay a few days. But we did pack as much as we could in those days. Flying into Reno Nevada we decided to rent a car and take the quick hour and a half drive to our Air B&B house that was a few blocks away from the lake. The house we rented had a gorgeous kitchen so we decided to cook our own meals rather than eat out everyday. While in Reno we had some time to kill before our whole group arrived so we stopped by Walmart and Trader Joes to stock up on some groceries. Which turned out to be the best decision we could have made due to everything being so pricey in the town of south Lake Tahoe. There weren't many supermarkets and TJ's and Walmart had better buys anyway. Our grocery list for the four of us looked a little something like this.

Shopping list:

Loaf of bread

Cold cuts

Cheese

Honey mustard

Case of water

Dozen eggs

Salmon burgers (for the non meat eaters of the group)

Salads

Veggies

We also included some adult beverages because what's a girls weekend if you can't have a drink with your girls while you catchup and gossip with your girls. With our limited amount of time we planned our trip to mostly around the south west part of the lake. We did lose about 4 hours from our itinerary after locking the rental car keys in the trunk and having to wait for roadside assistance to come and save us. Our schedule looked a little like this.

Day 1

Arrive to Reno

Pickup rental car

Get groceries

Get locked out of rental car for 4hrs

Drive to Air B&B house

Go to lake and watch the sunset

Cook dinner

Drink l

Laugh

Day 2

Make breakfast

Make sandwiches for hike

Hike to Eagle Lake

Go paddle boarding

Go out for dinner

Day 3

Make breakfast

Pack

Drive back to Reno

Say goodbye

All in all, we had a great time and managed to see some awesome sights and get great pictures of the lake and wilderness. I am so glad I got to catch up withy friends and we had a nice low key relatively cheap weekend getaway. Expenses worked out to be about $100 pp for car, house, food and activities. Tahoe really is gorgeous and late August is slow season but still warm enough to have a great time.