In mid-November we briefly escaped the terrible air quality in the Bay Area for a previously scheduled set of games in Tahoe. The Camp Fire in Paradise was still raging, and the death and devastation was profound, so we really have no room to complain about air quality. However, it was awful. We’d been limiting our time outside to our commutes and wearing masks whenever we were out.
On the drive to Tahoe we went through areas that were so much worse than ours — Sacramento, Davis, and Vacaville were particularly bad. But Tahoe was clean and cool. And very blue.
Finn’s team tied the Saturday game and won the Sunday game. It wasn’t very conducive to picture taking but here’s one of Finn. He was trying to keep himself in the game because his team was mostly playing at the other end (generally not a bad thing!).
We reluctantly came home into the smokiness on Sunday. Here’s a shot from our drive home. The fire engines from several south bay cities on their way home are in the distance.
