on the road and back

Fish needed to be caught, books read, and vitamin D needed to be applied to foggy skin. And for the first time in many moons we tried a new location, Milton Lake, about 40 miles north and west from Truckee. Milton Lake is operated, managed, overseen, etc. by the Nevada Irrigation district, which is not actually in Nevada at all. The unofficial campground has a well kept outhouse, and nothing else to offer accept free lakeside camping and canoe docking. It did start as a very quiet, peaceful spot with very large trout. The trout remained but as the week progressed the quiet diminished. I think one of the two old guys next to us was making his statement about the din, and large number of people who just about parked themselves on top of him by taking a boom box out on the lake in his electric propelled pram, and playing an assortment of music that got more and more comical. The afternoon was a selection of Ray Charles, followed by a well know version of "Mack the Knife". Somehow I knew I was going to hear "Volaire"  before the day was out and I was not disappointed. "The William Tell Overture" was followed by "Ghost Riders in the Sky" and then we seemed to move on to the Rolling Stones and right into what must have been the 99 cent collection of old folk favorites. So when was the last time you heard Johnny Cash sing "Don't Think Twice It's All Right"? Hopefully so long  ago you don't remember. I have to admit that most of the lyrics to these standards, such as "You are My Sunshine" seemed to have lodged in my brain and made their way to the surface. The singing didn't seem to have any effect on the rather voracious mosquitoes, unfortunately, but the fishing improved. And we decided three nights did the trick and packed up a day earlier than planned. We thanked our heavily loaded old Nissan for making it over and back Donner summit and returned to the land of fog.