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: