Joan on the Road...of Life

We were refreshed from our rest in Fallon, NV and ready to hit the road early for Lone Pine, CA. Google routed us on US 95 south around Walker Lake and into Hawthorne where there is an Army Depot. There are acres of buildings holding who knows what and acres of turf covered bunkers that probably hold munitions.

From there we headed out on NV 359 which has a tremendously long grade that took us up to 7600 ft. 359 becomes CA 167 (Welcome To California, bumpty bumpty) and we got our first glimpse of the Sierras from the east.

So come ride with me...on one of the loneliest roads. 50 miles of 2-lane, no shoulder, no houses, no other cars, no phone service...the outer boonies.

Mono Lake came into view. It's pretty large and lonely. There are boat ramps, but no one on the water. No one at the Recreation Areas and campgrounds.

We are at about 6000 ft. and the Sierras soar to 14000. Still lots of snow up there.

We stopped for lunch at Mono Lake after we started south on US 395. Dummy me...I only took some video snips that I don't know how to show you yet. But here we go through the Bishop and June Lake Area....awesome country up at 8000 ft. driving.

And then we head downhill at 6% for 8 miles....wheeeee!

Between Independence and Lone Pine are these lava beds where the earth burped and bubbled. I haven't yet found a description of when this happened. This goes on for miles.

After a long day's drive we enjoyed a bottle of wine and gourmet dinner (Stouffers' Swedish Meatballs).

We're at Boulder Creek RV Park which is the first park on the road that we stayed at when we began our fulltiming adventure in July 2003. So we've come full circle!

The weather is just about perfect here so we picked up some tourist literature and decided to stay a day and explore the Alabama Mountains where lots of movies were filmed. We'll also drive out the Whitney Portal Road toward Mt. Whitney, the tallest mountain in the continental states. Tomorrow looks to be a fun photo day :)