October 13, 2012

October 13, 2012

At 10:15, after dumping the holding tanks and latching on the CRV, we said “so long” to Lone Pine and snow covered Mt. Whitney.  

We didn’t have much traffic and the roads were good.  The scenery, however, was pathetic.  There were miles and miles of miles and miles.  It was dry and barren.  There were a few very small towns and most of them were mainly boarded up.  And who can blame the folks for wanting to leave.

One town, Ridgecrest, supposedly had a Walmart.  We don’t know because we never did see the town.  And we were looking...not for Walmart, but just out of curiosity.

In Barstow, we had three important things to do...eat at In-N-Out (yahoo!), look for some caches, and park at Flying J for the night.  We were successful at all three things.

After resting for about an hour, we went out to find some caches.  The temp was 79° and no wind, so it was good caching weather.  Before we went back home we had found eight caches.

We spent the evening watching the NASCAR race from Charlotte.  It was a good race although we didn’t like the results.

Today’s Travel Totals:  Miles traveled, 156---Caches found, 8.