Bodie State Historical Park in the high altitude Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains in California is a fascinating glimpse into the past. Bodie is a gold mining ghost town that as been preserved in a state of “arrested decay” (basically frozen in time) with the interiors of the homes pretty much remaining as they were left with…
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Mono Lake, California
Once you leave California’s scenic Yosemite National Park along the Tioga Road through the Tioga Pass you enter the arid Mono Basin of the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. In this basin lays the unique Mono Lake. A large 182 square kilometre (70 square miles) salt lake. In 1941 water from tributaries that fed into the lake were diverted to the…
Tioga Pass the gateway to the East
The Tioga Pass is the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park that allows you the rare opportunity to drive across the Sierra Nevada Mountains on State Route 120, the Tioga Road (except in Winter when the road and pass are usually closed from November and do not reopen until May or June depending on the…
Yosemite Meadows
Amongst all the scenic granite peaks and stunning lakes of Yosemite National Park are areas they call meadows. The two main meadows that can be found along the Tioga Road that crosses Yosemite from east to west are Tuolumne Meadows and Dana Meadows. Both meadows have numerous hiking trails that are interspersed with various forests, rivers, creeks…
The Stunning Lakes of Yosemite
The scenic vistas of Yosemite National Park provide a magnificent backdrop to the crystal clear waters of her stunning lakes and alpine ponds. There are no bad views in Yosemite!
Mule Train!
This was something I did not expect to see while on a dusty trail in Yosemite National Park…..a mule train!
Yosemite National Park – The Scenic Wonder
Yosemite National Park (established 1890) in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of eastern California has always been on my list of must visit places and I finally got to go there in September 2012. I am so glad I finally made it. Every turn reveals another scenic highlight from the great granite mountains such as the Half…
It’s A Wonderful Life!
Exploring the world, doing what I love……yes it truly is a wonderful life!
The crystal clear waters of Lake Tahoe
Crystal clear water, Winter Olympic history and a slice of Americana await you in the Northern Lake Tahoe region of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. My visit to Lake Tahoe in September 2012 was a brief one on the way to Sacramento from Reno, Nevada. I stopped in the lakeside towns of Crystal Lake, Kings Beach and Tahoe City to…
Deano In America 