| Bodie has to be one of the biggest
surprises of our California trip. Way of the beaten track, miles and
miles in the middle of nowhere. |
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Here's a room with a newspaper of the order of five
decades in age. |
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This bird looked gloriously blue whilst flying, but
less so during a brief stop. |
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This old schoolroom was quite poignant,
but the decayed globe in foreground made it look quite surreal.
I wonder where the children are now? |
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This picture was taken through the window of the old
power house, complete with transformers. |
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More of the same... |
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This was clearly the games room. Lots of room for
sitting and drinking beer as well as for playing pool. |
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This sign says it all.
I guess gold miners were a hungry lot. |
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'Fill her up!' |
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'Shell OK, sir?' |
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The general store looked SO like the hardware store
in our very own St Fagans Folk Museum in Wales. |
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More dusty memories here. |
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This, ladies and gentlemen, is the
funeral parlour... |
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Once the saloon, now a store full of souvenirs (made
in China?) |
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No wild west town is complete without a bar. You can
almost imagine the barman with his moustache sliding the beers along the
long bar. |
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A variety of vehicles that have not
passed their MOT (test of roadworthiness) lie slowly mouldering in the
warm sun. |
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| After several fascinating hours in
this small, but perfectly visitable Bodie State Historic Park, we move
on towards Mono Lake. You can just see it sneaking in the top left of
this shot which also shows the non motorway standard access to Bodie. |
