Emerald blue: Emerald Bay at Lake Tahoe.

We also visited the Columbia State Historic Park in the Gold County, the area of the great gold rush in the 1850s.

The Yosemite National Park is said to be the most beautiful National Park in the United States. For me personally, it is indeed only second to the Grand Canyon.

The ghost town of Bodie was founded during the gold rush in the 1850s – and was soon deserted again ...