Travelogue

As I mentioned in the past, our son Andrew and his wife Celeste, moved from San Francisco to Bishop in 2019 to try out a less-urban lifestyle in what is a world-class rock climbing destination. They were fortunate enough to be able to take their San Francisco jobs with them - and this was before Covid.

Bishop and all of the Eastern Sierra is stunningly beautiful, so even though they are 6 ½ hours away from us now, it is not a hardship to go over the mountains to visit them. Their home is often the last stop on one of our road trips.

I’m not going to go into any great detail about our family time together, but for my own purposes and desire to remember where the heck I have been this year, I added this as a stop on our Death Valley trip.

This is what we did over those 4 days:

• Herb and Andrew spent much time father-son bonding over home maintenance
• Drinks at dinner at the Owens Valley Distillery in Bishop
• Trip out to the Buttermilks to watch Andrew and Celeste boulder
• Go for a run on the lovely Bishop Creek canal near their house
• Herb gets up every morning before sunrise and drives out on the dirt roads past the canal to photograph
• More father-son bonding
• Drive up to Mammoth Lakes and meet some of their friends for dinner at the Mammoth Tavern
• Play support team for Andrew and Celeste on their off-road motorcycles on a drive up Silver Canyon 4WD road
• Celeste tries to teach me how to ride her motorcycle - doesn’t turn out well; or as my other son Tommy said when reviewing the video, “That ended just as I expected”
• Have dinner at home and sitting by the wood burning stove just enjoying each other’s company
• Drive home to Sonoma County