Saturday, July 03, 2010
Day 20: Our last full day
Today was our last full day of camping. Tomorrow we drive home. It was a great finish to a good trip. This morning we did some fishing, had a yummy breakfast and then went on a day trip to Bodie which is a ghost town high up in Eastern California. Just the drive was amazing to see how isolated the town would have been (13 miles east of 395 up a steep road) in the 1800’s. It was a gold mining town. The weather there was awful (it’s above 8,000 feet). But it’s neat because it’s been kept (by the state park service) in a constant state of (dis)repair since the 1970’s. It was a really interesting visit.
On the way back we ate lunch at the Mobil station at the corner of 395 and 120 that we learned about last year which has excellent food. I had the fish tacos which were great. When we got back to camp we enjoyed the beautiful setting, Maddie and Katie went fishing, Patty went for a walk, Jessie and I rented a pedal boat and Kelly stayed at camp and read.
We’re all struck by how beautiful Gull Lake is. We drove the June Lake loop which went by Grant Lake, Silver Lake, Gull Lake and June lake. They’re all pretty lakes, but Gull is the smallest and we all like it the best. Our great campsite doesn’t hurt either.
We had a delicious dinner – bbq ribs, vegetable-rice stir fry and pasta for some of the girls. Then we made a big, final campfire, and sat around and sang songs. We also each talked about the things we really enjoyed and things we didn’t like so much on the trip (roses and thorns). It was an excellent final evening.
Everyone (especially the girls) is excited to get home, so we’re getting up at 6:00 and hope to be off before 7:00. We’ll see how it goes.
On the way back we ate lunch at the Mobil station at the corner of 395 and 120 that we learned about last year which has excellent food. I had the fish tacos which were great. When we got back to camp we enjoyed the beautiful setting, Maddie and Katie went fishing, Patty went for a walk, Jessie and I rented a pedal boat and Kelly stayed at camp and read.
We’re all struck by how beautiful Gull Lake is. We drove the June Lake loop which went by Grant Lake, Silver Lake, Gull Lake and June lake. They’re all pretty lakes, but Gull is the smallest and we all like it the best. Our great campsite doesn’t hurt either.
We had a delicious dinner – bbq ribs, vegetable-rice stir fry and pasta for some of the girls. Then we made a big, final campfire, and sat around and sang songs. We also each talked about the things we really enjoyed and things we didn’t like so much on the trip (roses and thorns). It was an excellent final evening.
Everyone (especially the girls) is excited to get home, so we’re getting up at 6:00 and hope to be off before 7:00. We’ll see how it goes.
# posted by Craig @ 10:00 PM 
