Beatty Nv to Lone Pine Ca

Great day to ride.  Chilly wake up in Nevada, 45 degrees, but we stalled until about 9, ate breakfast at Mel's diner, picked up our charming VJMC Death Valley ride T-shirts and hit the road about 10.  We rode across the park and ended up in Lone Pine for the night. Amazing views, and very little traffic. And no snakes or other horrifying desert dwellers.

One extraordinary side trip we did here in Lone Pine:  Manzanar internment camp. A very sobering look at what is possible in a democracy where citizens get rounded up and put in camps with no due process (or the ability to show these citizens were a risk).  The camp structures are mostly all gone now but they are making progress creating examples of the buildings.  Over 122,000 Japanese were interned, with 10,000 of them at this camp, until 1945.

Overall a great day to be alive ;)