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In
October 2003, we drove Tuzigoot to Las Vegas
to see two HS football games (featuring Bishop Gorman HS, coached by
son-in-law David White) and spent the week between games on an excursion to
Yosemite and Death Valley. Here’s a brief report, written a year
later, with some pictures.
From
Las Vegas it was a long drive through the
desert NW to Tonopah, then W into California
and the town of Lee Vining, situated on the shore of Mono Lake. Mono
Lake is known for its
exotic tufa formations – I vaguely remembered a National Geographic
article. Here’s a sunrise picture and
then more pictures from later in the day as we explored the shoreline.
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From Lee Vining we drove to the ghost town of Bodie, well-preserved as a California State Park. Here are a few pix. Bodie became more special to us a month or
so later when we attended an art show in Albuquerque and came across a
painting of Bodie by an artist with connections to Susie’s home town of Las
Vegas, NM (the artist, David Vega
Chavez, is a nephew of a famous NM sculptor who roomed with Susie’s late
husband, Manny, at Highlands U in that fair city). Susie subsequently bought the picture for
me as a surprise Christmas present.
(If you’ve read our report on our NE NM
9-04 trip, you know Susie often runs into someone with whom she has
connections.)
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