Wednesday: We moved down to a campground a few miles West of Lone Pine, Ca. Tuttle Creek campground is a BLM campground just above the Alabama Hills that are used so often in the movies. The wind is gusting quite a bit now so it's nice to be setup in camp.
On the way down we stopped at the Manzanar Relocation Center where many American citizens and non citizens of Japanese decent were held during WWII. Not a notable time in our history. There just is no such thing as a little injustice.
There isn't much left there since all the buildings except the meeting hall were sold at auction just after the war. The National Park Service has a museum there but the museum in Independence has a bit better display about Manzanar, in our opinion. There is one thing in abundance at Manzanar, butterflies. Fortunately we drove through the grounds in the RV at less than 5mph and therefore the windshield was un-blemished. There were so many it was like a cloud. There must be something they like here?
Our mail was waiting at the Post Office for us when we checked. That's nice, just a two day trip for our mail this time. It takes several days longer to meet us when we're in Las Vegas. Small Post Offices must be more efficient.
Thursday: We went downtown for breakfast at the High Sierra Cafe. Whie there we stopped and the library, th museum, and the thrift shop. All intersting.
Since the water at Tuttle creek is not potable, we stopped at a county park to fill up our drinking water bottles. We have a carcoal filter that purifies it some. In the 4 years we'v been RVingm we have always carried about 7 gallons of filtered drinking water and have almost always found filtered water dispensers easily available. Not so here in the eastern sierras. There are none. They don't even stock much on the store shelves. We were told in Bishop that they don't need them because the water is so pure already. They evdently don't know what pure water tastes like because the tap water we've found isn't even as good as at home in Palo Alto.
We returned to camp and spent the afternoon listening to an audio tape of the Pillars Of The Earth. We've been listening to it for a while and finally finished it.
The day was nice today, none of the heavy winds of yesterday, even in the evening when we had a nice campfire.
Friday: We were up early, left our camp at Tuttle Creek, filled our water at the county park, drove the Movie Road West of town to see some of the "star" rocks from movies. We then stopped by the Museum of Lone Pine Film History for a look around. Then we were on the road with one final stop just South of town to dump our tanks. Lou fixed some sandwiches for lunch as we headed on down the Highway 395.
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