Next we headed north towards Reno, NV.
No tours were scheduled for 2023 due to COVID-19 restrictions and the Navy’s limited access policy.
Next: Manzanar National Historic Site.
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| "Half-melted building" (2016, for the Dr Satey Pediatric Clinic) is based on Krzywy Domek/Crooked House (2004, by Szotyńscy & Zaleski) in Sopot, Poland, which itself is based on the illustrations of Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg (a Roadside America attraction) |
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| Entering Red Rock Canyon on CA-14 |
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| Maturango Museum of Indian Wells Valley (est 1962 in a Quonset hut on the China Lake Navy base, building 2013) celebrates the natural and cultural history of the Upper Mojave Desert with exhibits of plants, animals, indigenous American (mostly Panamint Shoshone) artifacts and contemporary arts and crafts, in Ridgecrest, CA |
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| The museum was known for tours to the Coso Rock Art District National Historic Landmark (2001) an area rich in petroglyphs located on the property of the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake |
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| Puma concolor/Mountain Lion (KSS) |
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| Fulica americana/American Coot have amazing feet with broad-lobed scales on their toes to help with swimming and walking on mud, but fold back for walking on dry land (so that's why we have never noticed them!) |
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| Spilogale gracillis/Western Spotted Skunk |
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| Auriparus flaviceps/Verdin |
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| Urocyon cinereoargenteus/Gray Fox |
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| Personal-size water jar or canteen (Yokuts tribe) and doll and cradleboard (Northern Paiute tribe) |
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| This is what gypsum looks like? Selenite gypsum acicular/columnar crystals |
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| Sidewinder Missile was developed (1950-1953) at the China Lake Navy base, and is a heat-seeking or infrared homing device that can track a heated target |
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| The missile is named after Crotalus cerastes/ Sidewinder Rattlesnake that uses infrared sensory organs to hunt warm-blooded prey |
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| Part of a model monorail track depicting the Epsom Salts Monorail (1924-1926) of the American Magnesium Company in San Bernardino County, CA |
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| These must be "rare" strap-on roller skates, which even comes with the key to adjust length of the skate and to tighten the shoe clamps |
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| Sculpture (by Mike Youngblood) of a petroglyph found in the Coso District Little Petroglyph Canyon |
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| UniRoyal Gal or Hubcap Lady, a rare remaining female version of the fiberglass Muffler Men, stands in what was once the Hubcap Capital of the World: Pearsonville, CA (a Roadside America attraction) |
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| Red Hill Cinder Cone was created by a volcanic eruption 10,000-15,000 years ago |
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| Okay, on a clear day you can see Mount Whitney/ Tumanguya in Paiute, the highest mountain in the contiguous United States at 14,505'/4,421 m |
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| From the East Sierra Visitor Center in Lone Pine, CA, we have to look through the nearer mountains of the Sierra Nevada to barely see the lumpy peak of Mount Whitney as the clouds close in |
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| Just north of Lone Pine, CA is the Gravesite of the 1872 Lone Pine Earthquake Victims California Historical Landmark, a memorial to those who died in one of the largest earthquakes to hit California in recorded history (a Roadside America attraction) |
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| 16 of 27 victims of the earthquake are buried here; "Alice Meysan, Manuel yBatera [sic], Anthony Montoya, Maria Terrazonnna & her children. The rest of French, Irish, Chilean, Mexican, Native American ancestry are known but to God." |
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