Work continues on the “give kids separate bedrooms” project. Here M pulls away the wall as I cut through from the bathroom:
Now I just have to cut out that stud:
And cut out the wall footer:
Coming back from a home depot supply run:
Here’s the installed new door from the dining room. I then installed the new vanity:
Here’s the new door from the living room. We still have to add handles and a lock, and stain the door. I temporarily pulled the trim off the door to the right to mount the door to the left. The trim is on order, so I won’t be able to finalize that aspect of the project for another two weeks:
This morning we left the Atlantis Casino and drove to Lowes in Reno. Part of our new RV selection process was to only consider those floorplans that could have the rear bunkhouse converted into two bedrooms. For that to happen here, M will have to go through the kids bathroom to get to his room. That means we need a door from the living room to the bathroom. Sadly, the medicine cabinet and vanity are in the way:
Right now the bathroom is accessed through this door to the bunkhouse. Since this door will only go to B’s room, we have to put a door in the wall to the left so that M can enter his room via the bathroom:
The first step was to get the vanity and medicine cabinet off the wall:
There we go:
Next, I cut out the wall:
Since Reno doesn’t allow overnight parking in store lots, we repositioned to Carson City, Nevada, and overnighted at the Walmart adjacent to a Home Depot. I intend to finish the bathroom door project tomorrow.
This morning we said goodbye to our dispersed camping spot near Mammoth Lakes, dumped and filled at Convict Lake, and headed North. We waved to this helpful roadside reminder:
When I was in high school, I would sometimes wear a Bodie T-shirt to school. Apparently, this was so amusing to some that I was voted “most likely to become mayor of Bodie” by my class.
Today, the mayor has returned:
Bodie was a gold rush town in the Eastern Sierras that is maintained in a state of arrested decay, so buildings are not improved but are repaired to prevent them from collapsing. The town reached its peak in the 1880s and was completely abandoned by the 1950s.
Houses were often shingled with flattened out kerosene containers:
There was a rich guy in town:
We peeked in the window of the local gym:
These pumps are “pay inside” only:
The vault is all that remains of this bank:
The gold processing mill sits above the town:
This is the second school in town, as the first one was burned down by one of the students:
The most interesting aspect of the town for me was this structure. Electricity was delivered to here via power lines from a waterwheel attached to a generator, positioned 13 miles away. It was the first time in history that electricity was delivered over a distance via wires. The poles, some of which are still standing, are in a perfect line as engineers of the time were concerned that the electricity would fall off the wire if there was a bend in the line:
The hotel lobby:
We continued North to Reno, Nevada, where we overnighted at the Atlantis Casino. See the trip map for details.
After homeschool, we drove to Tom’s Place, CA and then up to the trailhead for the Little Lakes hike. I should have checked the trailhead elevation before heading out, as it was a chilly 54 at over 10,000 feet at the trailhead, quite a bit colder than the low 70s down at 7,200 feet where the RV is parked. We were therefore a bit underdressed, but we did out best to solve the problem by hiking fast:
We were soon rewarded with amazing views:
We soon found some snow to play on:
We approached the first of many lakes:
The snow was deep in spots:
More lakes:
We finally reached Long Lake, and decided to turn around as the trail ahead was completely snowed in:
More great views on the way down:
And another visit to the snow hill:
What a great hike! Tomorrow we head North towards Reno.
After homeschool, I took the kids a couple miles up the road to Convict Lake to do some fishing. We didn’t catch anything, but the views were stunning:
After returning from the fishing trip, I mounted an RV wiring harness in the bed of the truck. The first step was to drill a hole in the wall of the truck’s bed:
Then it was just a matter of running the wiring harnesses and screwing everything in:
Good Shabbos from BLM land near Mammoth Lakes, CA!
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