A day trip

On first day of the year, Mr Man didn’t want to stay at home. 31st night he suggested going on a day trip to Tahoe. Though I didn’t say anything, my answer was negative. He was just like a kid, he didn’t want to listen. When I told him that I was tired, he told me that he would drive, so I didn’t need to worry. I couldn’t make him understand that I just wanted to stay at home and have rest. Anyway, we woke up early in the morning. I packed up all the possible winter garments in the car, in case if we need. While driving on the way, we continuously talked about our last year winter vacation to Tahoe. The memory of the vacation will never be faded from the memory.If you want to read about our last year visit to Lake Tahoe, please click here.

On the way we even stopped at the same Starbucks, where we went last time amid pitch-dark and torrential rain. Anyway, this time Tahoe was totally different. Due to lack of rain Tahoe was almost dry, and could see only patches of snow here and there. We didn’t go up to the lake. We decided to go Donner Ski area, before the lake. The Ski area looked miserable. They could only make a small path of snow for skiing, and few people were skiing there. I’ve never seen such empty Tahoe. Anyway, my son did tube sliding for few hours and we decided to go back.

Auburn Museum

I wanted to go to Auburn, which is a historic small town established during California Gold Rush. Last year we went Placerville which is the next town to Auburn. The little downtown was old in true way. It showed every point how the small towns grew at that time, without much planning. As the area was hilly, the sidewalk was little funny. Some time, the sidewalk ended up in staircase. Yes, a public staircase to on the other side. 

We parked our car at the parking area of Auburn Museum. As it was 1st January, the museum was closed. So, we couldn’t find any information about the little old town. 
We decided to just walk around. In the mean time my son got impatient, he didn’t want to walk around with us. I was lost interest as I couldn’t find much information. I could see all the old building, and I was eager to know about each building, but I had no option. While walking we suddenly found a huge statue of the man, and we went to find out.

Claude Chana

 From there we came to know that the statue was of Claude Chana, who came to Auburn during Gold Rush, and built a little adobe. After staying one year there, he went to Sutter’s fort to work there. Again he came back to Auburn with couple of men in search of gold. Anyway, during that time whine the population started growing in that area, the people deiced to give a name, Auburn was chosen. 

The little history I got from Interment. To my disappointment,  the museum was closed, so, I couldn’t get chance to find all little history , which generally hard to find.