(Lee Vining, CA):
The first half of today's drive was 'inetersting' - one of those roads where you can see 7 - 10 miles ahead with intriguing landscape. A solar farm, tons of hay bales stacked nest to highway with no sign anywhere of hay fields, and some fairly bleak looking little towns. Also saw what appeared to be burned, ragged stones/small boulders. We later learned this was volcanic rock.
Then we got into mountains and were amazed by the variety of composition(?) - different colors, different kinds of stone.
Passed salt flats, incredible colors in lakes and rivers, and some quaint small towns. But it was too hot to stop plus there were no easy places to pull over in these towns. Temps were in upper 90's so Boots was not a happy camper when stopping was a necessity, which of course is was on several occasions.
About 50 miles before our destination, the temps dropped into upper 70's/low 80's. Lee Vining is a tiny (also quaint) community in the high Sierra Mountains. The RV park is across the highway from Mono Lake - gorgeous, gorgeous blue water.
Unlike the Canadian Rockies, these mountain roads had white lines, shoulders, guard rails, land on the other side of the guard rails, and subtle curves and declines - whew. Of course, we were going so slow we created our own parades.
