For a more casual dining experience, Fresh Ketch Restaurant at Tahoe Keys Marina, offers perfect blend of nautical décor with sunny decks and succulent seafood. From fish and chips to fish tacos, lunch menu is informal. Weather permitting customers can enjoy a cool glass of iced tea on sunny deck, while watching peaceful lull of sailboats sitting peacefully in their slips. For that yacht club feel dinner is hosted in a formal dining area.

With so many restaurants and so little time, it is impossible to list every establishment that puts “taste” in Tahoe, but if sushi is a favorite, then Naked Fish, is one of most popular sushi bars in area. For those looking for perfect ravioli, Passaretti's Italian Restaurant has authentic dishes and leaves its patrons feeling full and satisfied.

Just as skiing through untracked powder or jet skiing on lake are perfect activities for making a memorable Lake Tahoe vacation, so does ending day with a great meal while watching sun set on another perfect day at Lake Tahoe. Be sure to visit: www.LakeTahoeLodging.com http://www.LakeTahoeLodging.com/article_taste.asp to find out more about these fine places and to view an enhanced web enabled copy of this article.

Fortunately, hotel rooms are immaculately clean. It's true. The sign says so. Just as long as you don't look under mattress to find a 1976 copy of Businessweek Magazine and theatre tickets to a 1982 showing of The Music Man.

I don't know why hotels pretend to be so spotless. All that junk under bed could be used as a marketing tool. "Stay at Hilltop Hilton and join in our under-mattress-scavenger-hunt."

If hotels don't catch on, sooner or later motels will. They can turn anything into a sales pitch. Like, for example, "Color TV" (Ooooooohh.). And "Outdoor Pool" (I think "outdoor" feature is a nice added touch, don't you?) And how about "Free Parking" (which is really a way of saying, "You don't have to park your car in your room.").

What worries me most about hotels is what they keep in drawers. Did you ever notice there is always a bible in drawer? Why?

When you buy a car, there is no bible in glove compartment, although road is where you need prayers most.

When you dig for prize at bottom of Cracker Jack box, it's never a bible.

Even in hospitals, where a prayer might be all you have left, there is no bible in drawer.

Only in hotels and on death row do bibles come as standard equipment.

And why just Bible? I have had plenty of spare time to search for Torahs and Korans in hotel rooms, and I have never found any. Do Jews and Muslims not stay in hotels? What do they know that I don't?

Fortunately, I don't have to stay in hotels anymore. I don't have to endure shadow-puppet shows from guy on other side of wall. I don't have to keep from reading over his shoulder. I don't have worry about what he ate for dinner.

And I don't have to listen to his snoring. I can enjoy my own nightmares in peace.