Carl Henning

I-40 parallels much of old Route 66. I have special maps and a book to follow the old road as completely as possible. But time does not permit doing the whole thing this trip. However, we did travel three sections,…

Kay and I are on our way to Tybee Island, GA for the memorial service for Jackie, an old family friend. I’m “officiating” but in this case, it is very brief. When I officiated at Jackie’s mom’s funeral thirty some…

After our night in Beatty, NV we had breakfast at Denny’s. Good food and great service but… it was in the back of a small casino so we had to hold our breath to get there. Even though they were…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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;…