At some point when driving around Lake Tahoe it is inevitable that you will feel the urge to travel across it by boat. From South Lake Tahoe, a restored paddle steamer, the Tahoe Queen, sails to Emerald Bay and back, and at night hosts a dinner-dance cruise (http://www.zephyrcove.com/cruises/daytime-scenic-cruises/). Another paddle-steamer, the M.S. Dixie II, plies between Zephyr Cove (on the Nevada side of the lake, a few miles north of Stateline) and Emerald Bay, and makes several other lake cruises.