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A cozy woodstove, sunrise at Yosemite National Park, and Big Blue Truck Tours Inc

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Feeling grateful after a month of family and friend time in Truckee, CA. We shared our space with close friends from home, nestled away at the very top of the Tahoe Donner neighborhood, tucked between massive ponderosa pines that dropped their needles on our trucks and driveway. Our home for the month was a cabin-style getaway on a street full of other cabin-style getaways you would find when renting a place at a ski mountain. Brown cabin after brown cabin lined the streets, each with giant windows that let the sun in and brown, metal trash bins fitted with special locks so the bears couldn’t get into them. The houses looked so similiar, that even on the last day we were there, I still had to look at the number on the house to confirm it was ours. It was cozy inside, though. Matt kept the woodstove going most nights, as the temperatures really cooled down once the sun set at night. Gus shared the space with a new friend, Cooper. We were hoping they would be besties by the end of the mo...