The following morning, I woke with the sunrise. Gas was right there at the lodge, but was almost twice the price of gas in civilization. We had an INCREDIBLE breakfast on an open deck roadside at the lodge. The keeper introduced my son to rock collecting with some nice specimens found throughout the park.
He also suggested we stop by the Alabama Hills (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Hills) northwest of the park. It is the site of many western movie shoots and evidence of some aging in the Sierra Nevada range. On the way out of the park, we stopped at Father Crowley Point which looks east over the valley in the Panamint Springs area. There were also some isolated Joshua trees on the west side of the park. Southeastern California is home to Joshua Tree National Park (http://www.nps.gov/jotr).
We did not spend a lot of time in the Alabama Hills, but did stretch our legs for a while before making our way to Yosemite National Park. Not far from the Alabama Hills is the Manzanar National Historic Site (http://www.nps.gov/manz/). Time did not permit us to go there, but it is a significant historical site as one of the few American "concentration" camps during World War II.
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