Until now, the transition to the new RV has kept us too busy to do full homeschooling days. Today we did our best to get back on track.
This morning, B and I wired the remote switch for the inverter:
Now I don’t have to go outside and open up a compartment to turn the inverter on and off:
We had a full day of homeschooling, here I’m working with B on Scratch:
Between periods, Trish put the urethane clear coat on the kids’ tables:
After school we headed about six miles Southeast to the town of Darwin, population 40ish:
The town used to be much larger in the mining days. These buildings are now all abandoned:
On the way back from Darwin, we checked out some mines that were on the map:
It’s a long, long way down:
This mine was even larger:
We then drove over to the abandoned Talc City Mine complex:
And then on to the adjacent Silver Dollar Mine site:
We went in just a few feet:
We found the spot where previous residents dumped their empty cans of food:
I looked online, but couldn’t find any information about this fellow:
This mine had the remnants of a rail system in the tunnel:
Several other mines dot the landscape:
In the distance, the Sierra Nevada mountains:
Tomorrow we’ll head into Lone Pine, right at the foot of the Sierra mountains: