Goodbye God I am going to Bodie

Today we had lots of driving to do as we wanted to stay in Tahoe. We set off from Mammoth and took the scenic route out to the 395. We then headed North until we came to the June lake loop which is a really scenic detour around all the lakes we had seen the previous day from the top of mammoth mountain. We had a short stop at Mono lake and took some photos and went to the museum. This was very well done with lots of information about the brine shrimp that are harvested there every year.

We carried on North for another 20 or 30 miles then headed east to Bodie. This is an amazing ghost town which used to be a big gold and silver mining town back in the 1800’s. I was expecting a few old buildings, but it turned out to be really big with loads of the original buildings to look at. We took the tour of the stamp mill saw how the gold and silver was extracted from the rocks. We stayed here a bit too long and I didn’t realise how far away Tahoe was. We decided to come off the 395 and go through monitor pass. This climbs to 8314 feet and you get a great view of Topaz Lake from at the top. We finally found a hotel in Tahoe and even managed to get a room with a north facing view of the lake.