We stayed with Laura Bumpas and her family in Foresthill near Auburn in the Lake Tahoe area from Monday 27 to Thursday 30 September and had a most wonderful time.
The area they live in is wonderful, very peaceful, into the woods, definitely need a car for any transportation and beautiful to see the stars at night on the wooden decking which goes all round their house with some fantastic views.
On Tuesday we visited Donna Lake which took us through California and Nevada City and then onto Tahoe Lake which was absolutely magical. We also visited Harrah's Casino and enjoyed walking through the casino watching other people gambling on the card tables.
On Wednesday we met with Sarah Herbert a fellow VA from the local area at Sierra Commons in Nevada City. Sierra Commons is a purpose built building for business ignitors (start-ups) to work from offering numerous different options of working, for example hot desking.
Robert who ran the whole project showed us round the building which had open plan areas as well as closed off office space, a conference room and a sound proofed booth for working in and making telephone calls.
Robert explained how he had obtained funding to get the project off the ground and was currently looking to replicate this business space model in different places.
Robert was looking for a local Virtual Assistant to work on site at the building to look after the reception area dealing with enquiries and looking after requests from other businesses within the building.
Along with the opportunity of working for other clients and sourcing new clients at the same time - giving the VA chance to have more flexibility in working.
We hope to keep in touch with both Robert, Sarah and Laura and family.
Where we will be visiting in the USA
