Katherine

“We had heard a world of talk about the marvellous beauty of Lake Tahoe, and finally curiosity drove us thither to see it.”
― Mark Twain, Roughing It : Premium Edition -Illustrated

“Three months of camp life on Lake Tahoe would restore an Egyptian mummy to his pristine vigor, and give him an appetite like an alligator.”
― Mark Twain, Roughing It : Premium Edition -Illustrated

“Often, as we lay on our faces, a granite boulder, as large as a village church, would start out of the bottom apparently, and seem climbing up rapidly to the surface, till presently it threatened to touch our faces, and we could not resist the impulse to seize an oar and avert the danger.”
― Mark Twain, Roughing It : Premium Edition -Illustrated

“We were on the north shore. There, the rocks on the bottom are sometimes gray, sometimes white. This gives the marvelous transparency of the water a fuller advantage than it has elsewhere on the lake. We usually pushed out a hundred yards or so from shore, and then lay down on the thwarts, in the sun, and let the boat drift by the hour whither it would. We seldom talked. It”
― Mark Twain, Roughing It : Premium Edition -Illustrated