When I was working at a San Francisco animal shelter in 2002, a friend took me
on a tour of Lake Tahoe, four hours away. About a mile deep (and containing
within its depths a rumored cousin of Scotland’s ‘Nessy’), Tahoe is the largest
alpine lake in North America (the world?). Surrounded by snowy wilderness and
ski fields, the incredible blueness of the water makes it one of the seven
wonders of the world, at least according to me :)