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DianaT
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Highway 395 and Mono
Just cannot drive down 395 and not stop just to admire Mono Lake
We were headed toward Bishop, one of our favorite towns.
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Well those pics are something to admire all right!
Looks like you guys picked a perfect travel day.
Hope you went to the "Whoa Nelly Deli" for some great food.
Thanks for the pics.
"When you catch a fish, you open the door of happiness."
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Diana, your 395 photos just stirred up an old memory. After my first wife had died from her battle with cancer, I decided that I was going on a road
trip, I did not know where I was headed, but I thought I would know when I had arrived. A very good friend decided he would go with me and off we
went… lunch in Reno and south on 395. After traveling for quite some time in silence, I turned on some music and the old song “He stopped loving her
today” came on the radio, I looked over at my friend with big tears running down my face, to see just as many coming from his eyes. We drove for
several miles down that isolated road with big crocodile tears running down our faces and onto our shirts, this event ended up being a turning point
in my healing and acceptance of what had happened in my life. Thanks for the memory. JH
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DianaT
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Bajamedic, I believe the Eastern Sierra and Owens Valley are very special places and your story brought both tears and a big smile to me. Thank
you.
Thank you BornFisher. In all the many times we have been there, I don't think we have ever eaten there----so now, we have another excuse to head
that way again.
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I have made that drive many times. Thanks for the memories...
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Thanks Diana...my favorite area of Ca. Most hotels dog friendly, preserved ghost town of Bodie just up from Mono, drive east from Bodie and Aurora
ghost town is impressive (not preserved). Mark Twain spent some time there and Aurora was once the county seat of Mono County Ca until it was
discovered that the town is in Nevada. East of Aurora are many ghost towns attesting to great populations during the gold rush.
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Jack Swords
.... Aurora was once the capital of Ca until it was discovered that the town is in Nevada. ....... |
I did not know that about Aurora---thanks!
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Did you happen to go to Bodie also? About 18 miles north of Lee Vining/ Mono Lake on 395 and east about 12 miles on CA 270
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
Did you happen to go to Bodie also? About 18 miles north of Lee Vining/ Mono Lake on 395 and east about 12 miles on CA 270 |
It is a great place, but we did not go there this trip. Time to go again as the last trip out there was in 2008. My first trip to Bodie was back in
the mid 60s when one could drive right up to the town and there were a lot more sage grouse than tourists. 
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Nice pics...its a beautiful drive.
I always stop in Bishop and eat at Raymond's Deli, great sandwiches and an interesting atmosphere.
Were it not for the abdomen, man would easily reckon himself a god.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A trip I've made more times than I can count. Friends' family have a cozy bungalow on the South shore of Tahoe. and a bunch of us made a trip to
Harrahs for Thanksgiving for over two decades. Harrah had just a casino there when we started. No hotel.
This dates back to when Bill Harrah and his friendly competitor Harvey Gross actually hung around their casinos. Anyone have a clue as to why Harvey
built a Polynesian restaurant on the top floor of his hotel?
But, for some strange reason I just cannot erase my memory of old ladies chain smoking at the slots in the Topaz Lake casino.
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395
Great shots!
The 395 is one of my favorite areas of California. Most Californians dont have a clue about it!
Did you know that many Hollywood western movies were filmed off the 395?
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
Great shots!
The 395 is one of my favorite areas of California. Most Californians dont have a clue about it!
Did you know that many Hollywood western movies were filmed off the 395? |
Thanks
John's grandfather was a grip in Hollywood and worked on several movies shot in Lone Pine many years ago. Lone Pine now has a great little Movie
Museum. We were there a few years back when they first opened it----they even have the car Bogart drove up the old Whitney Portal road in High
Sierra--- I have some pix hiding somewhere on this computer.
Lone Pine and the Alabama Hills are wonderful. Even Gunga Din was filmed there---imagine Elephants in the Alabama Hills. :-)
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
Did you know that many Hollywood western movies were filmed off the 395? |
yep, the Alabama Hills. During the 10 years I worked for the Navy at China Lake I think I explored every inch of all the country surrounding 395.
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Lone Pine Film Festival
every October.....................
http://lonepinefilmfestival.org/
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Isn't that a smoker? 
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Great pics. I love that drive! Nancy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by nbacc
Great pics. I love that drive! Nancy |
Thanks Nancy----it seems like many around here love that part of California--- probably because of the beautiful wide-open spaces and such interesting
places to visit.
Not too far from Lone Pine and the fun Movie Museum is the town with the greatest junk art---Keeler. Last time we went through Keeler, this jewel
was not there anymore, but there is a lot there to see and enjoy.
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WOW!....wow, wow, wow!...etc....just TODAY my brother said i should drive the 395 south from reno and i would never ever regret it....we are leaving
for there day after tomorrow on his recommendation...wow!
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mulegemichael
WOW!....wow, wow, wow!...etc....just TODAY my brother said i should drive the 395 south from reno and i would never ever regret it....we are leaving
for there day after tomorrow on his recommendation...wow! |
After you drive it the first time, you may find yourself wanting to drive it again with lots of side trips.
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