On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 05:17:34PM -0500, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > > > On 1/5/2014 14:40, Larry Colen wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 01:59:53PM +0200, Attila Boros wrote: > >>You had a very nice trip, lots of good photos. > >> > >>http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/11769597235/ > >>Is that from the diner you were referring to? Looks very tempting:) > > > >That is from the Alabama Hills restaurant and bakery in Lone Pine. Another > >place well worth a stop. Lone Pine is an interesting place, not only is > >it at the base of Mt Whitney, but it is also where a lot of movies were > >shot. > > > I loved Lone Pine - we stayed there a couple of days back in 1984 > been through a couple more times. When roaming the Alabama Hills I > took a > bW photo of a piece of wood that had characters on it that appeared > to be in a Middle Eastern language.. It was mine for the taking if I > had wanted it - wasn't until years later I learned Gunga Din had > been filmed there!
Awesome story! > > While I was out hiking and Richard napping I encountered two local > women on horseback, one of whom was the local sherrif's wife. She > was an artist, too. Hired me to photo a few of her farm animals, > had me over for Scrabble (I don't think we finished a whole game) > and they gifted us with frozen trout and quail. Sadly, we couldn't > get any of the local eateries to cook it for us partly because of > the hour of the day - almost closing time. So we gave it to our > inn-keeper. > > It was a memorable visit. I think I recommended LOne Pine earlier to > Jostein and/or Larry As a place that was supposed to be just a night's bivouak, it proved quite entertaining. > > Ann > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
