Finally, the post you all have been waiting for – electrifying the stamp mill. (Ok, it’s the post I have been waiting for.) Burning 20 cords of wood a day was getting expensive, even though the same company owned the…
Refining Gold
As promised, a visit to the stamp mill in Bodie, CA. For an extra six bucks, tours of the stamp mill are offered. I enthusiastically participated; Kay found other activities. Ore came only from the mines owned by Standard Mining…
Bodie’s Ghosts
At the Mono Lake Visitor Center was literature on Bodie, California, a ghost town preserved by California State Parks as Bodie State Historic Park. I’m a sucker for ghost towns, especially if it’s accessible by 10 miles of nice paved…
Mono Tufa
As we left Yosemite the park service map showed a Mono Lake Visitor Center outside the park and a short distance north of the direction we intended to go. Having no other plans, we went. There we discovered that I…
Yosemite
We traveled the Tioga Pass Road through Yosemite National Park. No bears. No deer. No animals of any kind (although I did see a bird). There was no sign of Sam either. We skipped Yosemite Valley. Nobody goes there anymore;…
Oakland
To Oakland with Alex and Kay to see the Oakland A’s play the Baltimore Orioles play. Arriving in Oakland early we visited the Oakland Museum of California. There are three museums in one: natural history, history, and art. We only…
California Academy of Sciences
I did not leave my heart in San Francisco; just some cash to visit the California Academy of Sciences. (I think Saint Francisco is the patron saint of perpetual mist. Did not see the sun there.) The museum is really…
Fort Tejon
Finished the drive to Alex’ with our load of furniture, but stopped at Fort Tejon State Historical Park along the way. it was one of the few things that the History Here iPhone app suggested that was on our way up…
Played with Dinosaurs an a Child
We had to stop a Cabazon to see the giant extinct lizards (and get gas and ice tea). I wore the right tee shirt today: And here from my postcard selection, which you should really visit (see the menu listing…
A Stop at Chiriaco Summit
A stop at Chiriaco Summit off I10 in California includes lunch in the coffee shop… and a good lunch it was. Fresh hamburger and fries, served hot. not heat lamp hot, straight from the grill hot. Followed by cherry pie for Kay…