Bishop, CA

After leaving Flagstaff, AZ we started our journey to Bishop, CA roughly 8.5 hrs away.  As soon as we got underway we got stuck in traffic for about 40 minutes while they cleared away a rock slide.  After, we traveled up through Las Vegas, NV where temperatures reached 113 degrees and remained in high 90's through to California.

Traffic jam in Flagstaff

More traffic!

The drive was relatively uneventful with a few stops here and there for photos.

This picture is on the corner of Highway 95 and Highway 6 in NV

Upon arriving in Bishop I, Jim, was introduced to Phil, Julie's BF and roommate and an exciting few days were in hot pursuit (get it? hot? IT WAS 113 PEOPLE!!). The following day Julie took us exploring in Death Valley to the singing dunes. These dunes stand over 600' tall and when exposed to such unparalleled good looks as I provided... no, that's not it... when it's extremely hot and and moisture in sand in just right a slide similar to a small avalanche will cause the dunes to resonate and hum sounding like distant thunder, these mini-avalanches fortunately can be man made and made we did. 

But luckily for you this is not the most interesting part of our tale. As we were descending into Death Valley my truck's tire pressure sensor went off as well as my personal expletive emitting device. As we all hop out to take a photo my suspicions were realized and found my right rear tire to be very flat and so began the change of a flat tire in THE MIDDLE OF DEATH VALLEY. Not soon after we all get out we see another vehicle approaching there being only two of us in the middle of this huge valley I figure they can move around and get to the dunes (they are popular with sightseer's) to our incredible surprise it's a tow truck out of Vegas there to retrieve a Charger some Russians got stuck in the sand, he hops out and proceeds to hand me gloves, pull out his nice jack and change my tire free of charge. Needless to say, it was a nice surprise.

After spending an hour or so at the dunes we were cooked and headed back to Bishop for a relaxing evening and an introduction to a new board game Smallworld, it was very fun and took up a lot of our leisure time.

Dune yoga

Lucia found it to be too warm in California

The following day we decided to camp for two nights up in the Sierra Mountains. Find out more in our next episode!