Day 8: Drive from Yosemite to Bridgeport

Thursday, June 3

After we had a great breakfast of eggs we drove our RV into Yosemite. We drove through Yosemite and stopped at an outlook where the kids climbed down about 300 feet. The family then stopped at a lake in Yosemite where we met a German couple from outside of Heidelberg. We talked for a while and then continued on our tour. We continued driving and were soon out of the park on Tioga Pass, the highest pass in California. It had an elevation of over 9,000 feet. We stopped on it and saw a beautiful sight with peaks still having some snow. It was a very long way down. We drove over the highest up bridge in California when we left the pass and drove very close to the edge of the cliff for two miles. We got down and ahead of us was beautiful Mono Lake. We stopped at an Exxon Mobil gas station that had great food. The kids had ice cream and the parents drank coffee. We got back in our RV, recreational vehicle, and drove to Bodie, a ghost town. To get there, there was a 1.5 mile dirt road. The entire time our RV went up and down and the plates made a lot of noise. We parked and walked through the town. We saw many old buildings and shops. Bodie was a city in the late 1800s. Gold was discovered in 1872 and many people moved there from 1878-1881. In 1881 Bodie had a population of 10,000 people and a 350 people Chinatown! But the gold ran out in 1882 and two years later only 3,000 people still lived there. By 1900 only 100 people lived in Bodie living off of tourism. It was totally abandon in the 1920s and was made a State Park in 1962. We then drove to our camping place in Bridgeport. We had dinner and went to bed.

Day 8: Drive from Yosemite to Bridgeport