Eerie, Mono Lake looks like a (salty) lake in the desert, which it sort of is, given that what water there was has long since headed for LA.
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Monthly Archives: March 2014
These Tufa towers reach up to 20 feet high…. mineral salt deposits formed when they were in the briny Mono Lake….. by law, they should be in the water now….. but LA wants the water…..
Well, I dunno what come of ol’ Harry. He stopped by the station to get some gas and just sort of walked off into the desert…… (the old ghost town of Laws in the southern end of the Owens Valley)
Back when the Owens Valley was a thriving farming area the town of Laws was just one of the many stops on the railroad that went all the way to Carson City, Nevada. Today the train has no where to go, no freight to haul and Laws is a museum. They say that westerns were filmed here, certainly one starring Steve McQueen.
And we think that contending with lost and unclaimed baggage at the airport is a problem…..!
The boardwalk in the Laws ghost town….. well preserved.
The old Post Office in Laws with Wanted posters still on the walls. It was noteworthy that a white man who had committed robbery had a reward ten times higher than a Hispanic man who had committed robbery…….
There is something out there….. and this tile had even more meaning when we rode mules in the Grand Canyon.
The Eastern Sierra from the now desert-like Owens Valley… it was an active and lively farming community in the early 1900s when Los Angeles came up and quietly bought up farm after farm for the water rights. Once LA had critical mass of water rights, they started building canals and pipelines to move the water to LA. Very controversial and led to bloody battles between the locals and LA’s thugs. The locals lost. LA bulldozed the farm buildings away such that today it looks like there never were farms here.
We had an open road to ourselves. The Tesla would not have traveled this country successfully.
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