I Just Can't Quit You
Family business has kept us close to home for months, so we made a prison break this weekend and ran for the Eastern Sierra: Bridgeport, Twin Lakes, Bodie State Historic Park. And then turned right at Lee Vining to shoot through Tuolumne Meadows on the way home. I loathe California, as a political entity, and I love California as a place. I want to leave you, California, but I, I just, I just….
Anyway, it’s complicated. But it takes real talent to make people hate living in this place:
Bodie State Historic Park is a ghost town that was a gold mining community for decades. If you’re ever feeling like your life is hard, go look at the cemetery in a 19th-century mining town and count the number of unmarked, child-sized graves. Or just notice the ones that are marked:
Evelyn died in a pick-axe accident.
Life has always been a struggle. Believe it or not, it’s mostly easier now. If you doubt me, I know of an even more depressing graveyard, but let’s stop there.
Back at it this week. More to come soon.
I went to Bodie about thirty years ago. I stayed in Lee Vining. And Mono Lake was close by! And I’m a native Californian. I took the same picture as you did of the tombstone. And yes...California is an absolutely beautiful state!
Can we take our state back from communists is the question...????
"I loathe California, as a political entity, and I love California as a place."
I feel much the same about Seattle and western Washington.