During our stay on Hot Creek Hatchery Rd, we drove a little bit south down Highway 395 to Convict Lake. There is a an easy 3-mile hike that goes around the lake that I learned about from Jim & Gayle at Life’s Little Adventures. Convict Lake is so named because of a shoot-out that occurred … Continue reading Fall Colors on Convict Lake
For our next stop, we moved just about 30 miles down Highway 395 towards Mammoth Lakes. We found a great boondocking spot off of Hot Creek Hatchery Road. Can you see our RV in the picture below? There’s lots of wildlife near this site – we’ve seen several deer and heard coyotes howling in the … Continue reading Hot Creek Boondocking
Yosemite was high on the list of things Deas and I wanted to see on this trip. As luck would have it, our visit to the area coincided with the government shutdown, which meant Yosemite would be closed. We were pretty disappointed, but then we heard that the highways running through Yosemite would still be … Continue reading Yosemite during a Government Shutdown
Our next destination was to drive down Highway 395 on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevadas. Our friends Paul and Nina had spoken very highly of the eastern Sierras, and we were really excited to check it out. There’s a lot of boondocking in this area, and we picked the area near Mono Lake … Continue reading Highway 395 and Mono Lake
