The drive north to Lone Pine, “the gateway to Death Valley” was great. Every bend had an amazing new rock formation and the mountains were big and beautiful.
Note truck in foreground
We camped at Boulder Creek Resort from which we could see Mount Whitney, the tallest mountain in the contiguous US.
This is the view coming out of our campground.
We took the truck onto the Mount Whitney Portal Road to get a better view and were both totally entertained by the countryside. We even saw some of the rocks the Lone Ranger and Tonto scrambled over years ago.
A closer look at Mount Whitney
TV shows were filmed here.
We then drove to Independence (how ironic) where we toured the remains of Manzanar, the relocation camp built to house Japanese Americans during WW II. It was a very sobering experience.
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