August 2, 2015
zero day at the South Lake Tahoe KOA

We are half way done with our goal of hiking the Tahoe Rim Trail.  The second half is going to have to wait.

Today, we talked through all the options we could think of, but the deciding factor was my trip to Urgent Care.  The doc looked at my feet and said, "your hike is done"!  He trimmed the dead skin off my two big blisters.  I am laying stomach down on the table while he and the nurse prepped things behind me.  When he is all ready, he said, "Now just relax.  This shouldn't hurt a bit." Needless to say that did not comfort me! Then he drained my toe.  I asked him if that was a record.  He said probably not, but it was over 1 cc and that was pretty impressive.

When I returned to camp (a 20 dollar taxi ride each way), we knew we were done hikinf, but we still did not know how we were going to get back to our car 40 miles away at Tahoe Meadows where we started. It was on the NE corner of the lake and we were on the SW corner.  I could not find any public transportation.  A taxi ride would have been several hundred dollars.  I tried to call a couple of churches to see if anyone could help us.  Nothing.  It appeared that we were stuck!