Road Trip — Bishop Area
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I ended up camping in Brown’s Town Campground in Bishop last night. By the time I finished playing around Mammoth Lakes last night, all the motel rooms where booked, so I headed over to Bishop and they were all booked too! The police officer was nice enough to tell me about this place and I enjoyed a nice night along with the motorcycle riders, classic car show participants and bicycle event riders–no wonder the motels were all full! And they have hot showers, so all is good with me. 
I stopped at the Visitor Center before I headed out of town and checked to see if there are any interesting looking geocaches around. I decided to look for one that was on the west side of town since I hadn’t been there before. Well, this led me away from Highway 395 and on over to Highway 168. After checking the brochure map of the area, I decided to continue west along Highway 168 to go check out some of the many alpine lakes on this side of the Sierra Mountains. And this turned out to be the day of glorious fall colors. The tiny town of Aspendell lived up to it’s name and there were aspens showing their gold and orange colors in every direction. Aspens are like a yellow highlighter marker on the mountain sides… if there is a river or stream coming down the mountain, the aspens highlight them and show you were they are. Following Bishop Creek, Lake Sabrina is the first lake I visited. Everyone I met has either a camera in hand or a fishing pole; this is big time fishing territory and lots of trout were being caught. Next I headed towards South Lake and along the way I saw a striking waterfall shooting out of the side of a mountain and, if you can believe it, someone has a house right below it–I would love for that to be my backyard. South Lake is gorgeous and the meadows by the creek are very pretty and relaxing. The last lake on my list as I head back towards Mammoth Lakes is Convict Lake. My boss recommended I see this lake if I got the chance, as it’s very pretty and he was very right, it is very pretty. It’s called Convict Lake because this is where the posse encountered a group of escaped convicts back in the 1800’s. And I’ve learned that “Star Trek: Insurrection”, the ninth movie in the series, was filmed here and at Lake Sabrina… hmmm, gonna have to put that one on the rental list. LOL
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