Catching Up From Home

Thanks to not having decent (or any) computer service the last few days of the trip, I will post a few highlights of them. Cary has talked about visiting Lone Pine ever since we have been traveling together, so this was the year for it. I had no idea that it was a real town and that more than 600 movies were actually shot here! Not only Westerns, but "Easterns" (think Gunga Din) and just recently, Django Unchained.  The terrain is really great for sci fi thrillers as well. Here are a few photos from the museum.

Bogie drove this in High Sierra.

This should have been filmed in Tucson!

An example of one of the many "Easterns" filmed here.

A Kevin Bacon trailer was playing here: Tremors (science fiction).

Cary took some photos too, but I haven't uploaded them yet.

From a slice of make believe we had a dose of reality: we also took a tour of Manzanar, a Japanese relocation center, just one of many sad parts of America's history.

Again, these are not Cary's photos, but his are similar. Just look at the terrain. The wind always blew. It was either hot or cold. The Japanese did create gardens and tried to beautify the place, but it looked this way when they first arrived, told it was for their own safety. Although they noted the guards held their weapons inwardly, not out as if to prevent harm coming to them.