Seriously….the above and below scenes are like 5 mins away from each other…sweeeet. Loving driving these dirt roads.
Woke up to hummingbirds at the fountain, hummingbirds are nuts. they don’t make any sense. Apparently everybody here is as obssesed with them as we were after seeing them. Peeps in Bishop plant particular flowers just to attract them, but they are awesome..so, I would too.
This was our first real day off. We had a couple of “days off” in LA, but basically spent 5-6 hours of each day driving around LA looking for cheap music gear and getting pissed off about the heat and the stupid amount of freeways. Being in like the capital of Rock Climbing in the US we decided to head up the Mountain and check that shiz out. Man, did we get high above sea level…by the time we had driven as far as we could we had reached like 9000ft above sea level. Thats pretty darn high, only a couple thousand feet shy of the highest point in NZ. We got out, messed around took some crappy photos, ya know, touristy crap. Pretty amazing geography…one second its burnt massive dry roads and boulders, next corner its snow covered mountains. Man…if you come anywhere near this area, you have GOT to come up the mountain…its only a 15-20 min drive from the central township and beautiful.
PS… any bands going from LA to San fran, don’t bother going on the I5 straight through, sure it will save you 4 hours or so, but man..its a hideous drive.. (just concrete, highways and fields) but going via Bishop…man, such amazing scenery I can’t describe and def worth the extra petrol money/driving…you won’t notice it! If the road is open, you also get to drive through Yosemite! (which we didn’t…but we got the next best national park)…and well..screw saving a coupla hours.
Basically just chilled out all day hanging out around Bishop, in the evening our new Bishop mates took us out to the local pubs to show us a true American pub, and except for a pub brawl, we got it all! Man. I couldn’t believe our luck, within 5 minutes of being in the pub “Sweet Home Alabama” gets picked on the Juke Box by some cowgirl who like starts slapping her thigh… then immediateley this awesome old man who plays the spoons came out from the shadows and started cranking some spoon solos. Awesome.
Our bishop buds made another crazy dinner for us, pulling out all the stops… We get an early night for a big drive to San fran and show the next day.
PS. Photos from around Bishop
