Our Last Day at Work
LAST MOPPING
LAST SITE RESERVED CONE
LAST DINING OUT DECISION
LAST ROLL IN THE GRASS
Oct 16
LAST MOPPING
LAST SITE RESERVED CONE
LAST DINING OUT DECISION
LAST ROLL IN THE GRASS
Oct 14
Lake Sabrina, South Lake, and North Lake are all up the road (Highway 168) from us.
We’ve been to South Lake. We’ve been to Lake Sabrina. We’ve been to both South Lake and Lake Sabrina.
But we’ve never taken that right turn on Highway 168 to North Lake . . . until last Thursday.
Here’s our best picture of North Lake:
Here’s Jan being cold as hell at 9,200 feet . . .
Finally, I don’t remember the drive up to North Lake. I think I blacked out. You see, about 2 miles of the trip up were negotiating a one-lane road with sheer drop offs. I know we encountered a couple of huge pickup trucks coming down the mountain as we drove up, and we survived.
Since we had the inside lane on the drive down, we felt emboldened to film it.
That’s Flirt panting in the back seat.
Oct 13
Last week we took a road trip to Rock Lake which is about about 45 minutes from our campground up Highway 395.
However, we took back roads (red dotted line above) most of the way.
Rock Lake is at 9700 feet so cold weather and Fall comes early. In fact on our way to the lake, we say early snow on some of the mountains.
We had lunch at the lake and did some hiking. Flirt went into the lake as soon as we arrived and has smelled ever since.
Oct 1
About a week ago our Golden Retriever turned six years old. No longer a puppy. So we celebrated by getting all maudlin as we remembered our former dogs.
Be that as it may, here’s our girl at 8 weeks and at 6 years . . .
DICHI GOLDEN ACRES
Our Flirt’s mother is also named Flirt and her father’s name was Chance (the dog all over Jan’s feet at the end of the video below).
We got our Flirt as a puppy from Dichi Goldens in Wisconsin in 2012. Before we picked her up in November of that year, we visited Dichi in June, a month after our previous Golden Retriever Jack died.
Here’s a movie of our visit to Dichi Goldens in June 2012 . . .
Sep 28
We’ll be leaving Bishop mid-October and we’re trying to get in as many activities as we can because we may not be back here for a while. Well, probably next year if we do our West Coast Trip. We’ll see.
Jan takes the Activities Award for September . . .
YOSEMITE FISHING TRIPS
Jan has taken a couple of fishing trips with her new friend Audrey to the streams in Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite. This meant getting up at 5:30 am.
CONVICT LAKE HIKE
Jan again. She and friend Audrey did a 3-mile hike around Convict Lake which is about an hour North of Bishop. As you’ll see in one of the photos below, the Fall colors have started in September in the mountains.
DUTCH INVASION
Every year campers from the Netherlands visit our campground on their 31-day tour of the southwest.
Here’s a link if you want to join them next year: Kampeerreizen van ANWB . . .
TOM INSTALLS SOMETHING IN THE JEEP
It’s a thing with switches and stuff . . .
JAN BACKS A TRAILER INTO A TIGHT SPOT
It was no mean task. The Queen ‘o Driving strikes again . . .
DOG MOVIES
OUR FAVORITE DESSERT SPOT
Basically, you fill a large cup with different flavors of Yogurt, add a bunch of toppings, and then you pay by how heavy it is. Great stuff.
THERMAL VENT OPENS NEAR OUR CAMPSITE
Ok, we just threw some dry ice in our creek . . .
WHY WE LIKE SEEING MOVIES AT THE BISHOP TWIN THEATER