TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

Did you miss me last night.  I spent about 100 minutes trying to get on to the internet, that's 700 minutes in doggie years!  No signal. Try again. That was the Internet's reply all evening long. I guess when you have beautiful site in the pine trees, you have to give up something.

I wanted to tell you about our Jeep travels to the Bodie Ghost Ranch State Park yesterday. We drove in from Bridgeport on the 395 to a 15 mile, mostly paved road to the historic gold  mining town.  At an altitude of 8000 feet, the town was once home to a population of 10,000. When the mines were shut down the people left and abandoned their homes and possessions.  Many of the buildings are in ruin, but there were over 50 buildings still standing to explore.

We were able to look into windows and see furniture and household items.  Jim liked the general store where the electric lights were still burning after all these years.  Kathe took this picture of a kitchen with some of the baking supplies still on the table.

The drive back down the hill was spectacular.  We could see the snow topped mountains of the whole Sierra range.  Too bad no one in this group knows how to use the panoramic feature or I'd show you this most beautiful sight.  Instead here are some pictures of the Ghost Town. Boo!