Lake Tahoe made a huge impression on me, despite a very brief visit while en route to the west coast on a 2010 Cross Country Road Trip.

Surprisingly, the site in northern California - which we went by on our way from Reno to Yosemite - did not make my Good, Bad, Ugly list of "Best/Worst Of"s during the trip. But it was up against some stiff competition - The Chicago Art Institute, the Badlands, a Vagina-shaped building, and the General Lee to name a few.

I guess it was because of the short period of time that we were there that left that "we neeeeed to go back" mentality.

You can see why....

(a panorama I took at Lake Tahoe with the Sierra Nevadas in the background)