Great Summer Trip

We took a whirlwind vacation through California in early June. It was a crazy-ball-of-unraveled-yarn kind of trip. Our first stop was at Universal Studios in LA (many pics with plushies and furries), followed by an awe-inspiring layover at Yosemite, a digression to the ghost town of Bodie and Mono Lake on the way to Lake Tahoe. Such breath-taking scenery! Discovered a wonderful little yarn shop The Wool Tree on Harrison Ave. in South Lake Tahoe. It’s amazing how one can become so attuned to yarn shops that “one” can pick them out of strip malls even when the shops are set back from the street and partially hidden by parked cars. I picked up a set of needles and some fancy yarn to knit with while “the boys” played Frisbee golf at a local course.

It’s also good to know that in Tahoe I have the Wool Tree and in Reno there’s Jimmy Beans Wool. We didn’t stop in Reno this time, but Jimmy Beans is a dynamo shop. Their website is a resource center with web tutorials, free patterns, catalog, etc. I was able to order yarn—Colinette’s Parisienne—for a project. When I called to see what the yarn was like a very helpful person compared the hanks and described them. No surprises when they arrived a couple of days later.