Mammoth Fireside Mammoth Lakes

... a gravel car park covered in weeds and dog poop located between a builders yard and storage units then this is the place to be! I attach some pictures of Joy Land for anybody wishing to visit. What was especially nice about this place was the main road running next to it and the big spiders living in the RV hook up boxes. All was well when we were safely locked up in the RV until the early hours when we ran out ...

... kind of bubbles around rocks, and the water around it becomes thick and slimy like vegetable oil.

Anyway... enough “education”... let me tell you what we ate!! We made a fire and grilled pork chops to go with a salad. Yummy! We also managed to buy a corn on the cob. It was delicious, grilled on the open fire... perfect charred flavour.

We then climbed into the tent and settled for the night. It was getting very chilly (we ...

... Home is where we park it" since we have no condo, but you get what I mean!) So we drove to West Wendover, Nevada and dry camped for the night at a casino so the drive wouldn't be so terrible the next day.

Sure enough, Wednesday ...

... basis, nothing. Or they go through fad diets, yoyo diets, and it seems like an endless cycle. Personally, I don't want to be in either of those groups. If I'm going to lose weight, I want to lose it permanently, and I don't want to be one of those girls freaking out because they can't fit into a size 00 jeans and look anorexic or something. In a way, I just want to be what I would consider to be "normal", whatever that may be.

... a lot to be desired, as the crew obviously wanted to go home, one hour early before closing. Hence the smell of bleach and the closing clean up of the ladies restroom. Lorraine's face said it all...Finally they reopened the restroom to Lorraine's delight, but we had to eat outside because of the strong odor of bleach. Brian had no luck at finding a pair of more comfortable tennis shoes all day. We headed to Costa Mesa and the friendlier confines of our $55.00 a night rooms ...

... the time of year I was visitng the area, there no was water coming over the falls so I was a little bit disappointed.

By the time I got to Mammoth Lakes it was starting to get dark so I found a hotel and went to a nearby bar for some pizza and beer. I made a slight mistake ordering my first beer as they ended up bringing me a massive jug of beer and it cost me $16! By the time I had a couple more regular sized beers I was pretty full so I just went back to my hotel room.

We left San Fransisco at 6pm Friday evening with our guides Dave and Benny on Yosemetie Bug tours, we were 11 all together, six of Australians. Took us about 4 hours to reach the hostel where the Bug tours run from. Stayed in dorm rooms with all the other girls from the tour. Up at 7am for a cooked breakfast, the place we stayed, Yosemetie bug hostel did some really good food but you had to wait ages for it! We then set off in the 'bug bus' and stopped at a place caled ...

... and had a long chat with them - he was especially keen on the Bass (as in fishing) shop in Springfield MS and was insistent that we visit it - he'd spent 18 hours in there over 2 days once.... The weather got quiet warm in the afternoon and we limped back after achieving 4 of the 5 lakes...we'd definately come back again. It was a really wilderness experience with ************e ...

... and we toured through those. He had all kinds of fruit trees growing on the grounds. But the most fabulous sight of all was the view of the Pacific coast and ocean. It was incredible and the home was built so that most of the bedrooms had panoramic views of the ocean. Once the tour was finished we headed up HWY 1 up the Pacific Coast. The views were incredible! The waves were about 9 feet high crashing onto the rocks. I have never ...

Around 6pm when we touched down at LAX Airport. I am travelling to Bahamas thru Los Angeles and Miami without a US Visa. Dad is in the ICU of UCLA recovering from a brain tumor surgery. Mom is also admitted in the ICU of the same hospital for bleeding in the stomach due to stress and high blood pressure. We tried to secure a US visa ...