Road to Vegas

We left our final holiday house and drove eastwards out of the National Park where the pinewood forrest gave way to more open landscape dotted with different pines, with thinner and greyer trunks. Huge boulders lay strewn where the icemelt had left them all those years ago and we were almost 10,ooo' high and I felt I could reach out and touch the sky!

On the other side of the mountains we reached a popular and very attractive skiing resort of Mammoth where we found Convict Lake which proved a perfect watering hole for Kymba and a picnic spot for us. here the aspen trees were in full autumn colours and at the far side of the lake they had gathered in the river valley as if they too were flowing into the crystal clear waters of the lake.

From Mammoth we had a further 5 hours drive through immense tracts of desert where the road only occasionally turned a corner, to avoid a bit of high ground as in this shot, but otherwise it was straight as far as the eye could see and beyond! By the time we neared Vegas the occasional Joshua tree popped up to break the monotonous skyline but otherewise I concentrated on watching the clouds in the desert sky changing shape as we travelled. I know that the desert will support all kinds of life but none was obvious to the traveller.

Back home to Vegas - and it is decidely cooler than when we left.