If you've ever visited a Japanese garden, they are amazing. Today you see only dirt, but these gardens were encouraged by the camp administrators and all over the camp grounds.
Wife kids & I visited the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park recently, built in 1894 for the Worlds Fair and I can only imagine this is what these gardens once looked like.
A paved road now runs along the border of the camp. This used to be sand the first time I rode it on the Hayabusa. Sand and Hayabusa's don't go together.
10,000 people used to live here & the camp was 100% self-sufficient growing all their own food and raising livestock.
Ever in the Eastern Sierra, plan a visit. It's free to go there and right along the highway.
Doncha hate it when you've been riding past someplace for years and never knew it was there? That's the ORVO for me. This place is super interesting.
The radar dishes are used to make discoveries about star-forming regions, proto-stellar disks, proto-planetary disks and galactic structure. The first 32-foot dish arrived to this valley in 1958 and by 1959 another was added listening to echoes in outer space. By 1968, a 130-foot dish was added. Radar dishes pointed towards the heavens are often paired up with other dishes in other parts of the globe all listening to the same radio frequencies.
I had been working on an article about the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, and these radar dishes are right below that mountaintop. You have to ride right by them and we've never stopped here. Will have to include these in a future motorcycle tour with the fellas.
500 mile day, last road of my 12 hour day, I had heard about a single lane paved road in the Sierra Foothills 10 minutes from my house. All this time, been riding right past it.
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