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Falling over at the ghost town
... br> Bodie was really interesting and it had only 5% of the original buildings standing so this place was really massive. It is in the middle of nowhere yet they had all mod cons! One of the houses we were able to go into and they had fancy wallpaper and lino. You can see that some people had made a lot of money from the gold rush. Other places we had to peer into the windows, but I discovered that putting my iphone against the windows stopped the reflections and ...
Sierra Mtn. High
... times throughout it's history and what little remains has been left in a state of arrested decay. It's a fascinating remnant of the gold rush days and something to see. They give tours of some of the buildings, otherwise only a few are open for viewing. There was a forest fire in the hills outside of town recently and that is always a tough thing to see. It burned about 1300 acres and was started by an improperly doused ...
"It's just like Schvitzerland!!!"
... and I'm on my butt and the camera is toast. You'll just have to take my word for it, no matter how many of these bad boys I catch, each one is a mind-blowing experience.
Ilana is on her tour now and if it's Monday she must be in Las Vegas. I call her every night and she is doing okay. The tour is exhausting, too fast paced, too much to see and not enough time. She got a big group, 55 people I think she ...
Addendum to previous blog from Bridgeport
... the apple pancake, which is baked in the oven and comes out as a big souffle with fresh cut apples and cinnamon on top.....sumptuous! We also spent wonderful time with My brother Larry and his wife Susan, who live in Huntington Beach, and their two daughters, Tracey and Debra. I had a great outing with Debra to the cinema to see the last Harry Potter movie, which was the best of the bunch. Debra is off to CSU in the ...
Just one Good Fish Lord.....then one more
... to over 10,000 ft, the altitude was too much for Ilana so we took the trail at nearby Twin Lakes, only 7,000 ft, to Horsetail Falls, which was a thundering cataract with billowing spray refreshing our faces.
the next day I went back to Virginia Lakes with Chance and we hiked up into the wilderness for miles, through groves of Aspen, fir, pine and cedar, past babbling crystal clear creeks choked with wildflowers, past ...


