Our posts are getting briefer, but here’s the basics: Flagstaff Lesson learned: never try to make reservations in Las Vegas for a holiday weekend on the spur of the moment. We barely found a room in Flagstaff, 200 miles in a different direction – but as compensation we enjoyed: The Lowell Observatory Seeing the moons of Jupiter Not quite green chile Flagstaff to Grand Canyon: Sunset Crater – does anyone know the difference between...
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Monthly Archives: May 2002
Death Valley, CA
Day 1No wind and 80 degrees, 20 below normal. A perfect day in Death Valley We decided to stay on the desert floor and there was plenty to do. We hiked up a canyon to see a natural bridge formation. The only problem with Death Valley is that pretty much all hikes are up from here. We also headed to Devil’s Golf Course, where a not so ancient lake bed now forms salt crystals...
Death Valley, CA
Monday, I think. Who really cares. The weather report for Sunday night in Lee Vining was snow flurries. Nadya and I decided to move up the stay in DV by a day. Good thing we did. When we got up Monday morning the snow flurries where building into real snow. We departed early for breakfast in Bishop with the storm chasing us. The storm was moving slower than we were so we soon where...
Lee Vining, CA
After a fun day exploring Gold Hill (where N’s great grandmother was born) and Virginia City we headed out this morning with a first stop at the Nevada State Railroad Museum. Very cool stuff, most of which was old Virginia and Truckee stock that Nevada bought back from Paramount when Paramount liquidated their rolling stock in 1971. Now we’re settled in at Lee Vining, and can see Mono Lake if we open the door...
Carson City, NV
Star Wars Episode 2 opening day We walked up at 5:30 and bought tickets for the 7 o’clock show. “What time will you start seating?” we asked. “Whenever people show up,” came the slightly perplexed reply. The advantages of small town living. We were however frustrated by the theater whose central aisle was a large entryway – thus exiling all customers to side seats – we settled in after we’d found the ones that...