{"id":91,"date":"2005-09-19T23:30:20","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T23:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2005-10-05T21:46:45","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T21:46:45","slug":"monitor-pass-and-lake-mono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/19\/monitor-pass-and-lake-mono","title":{"rendered":"Monitor Pass and Lake Mono"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>On the way from Lake Tahoe to Yosemite, I drove through a beautifully-situated small town called Markleesville, then over Monitor Pass and south to Lake Mono and Lee Vining. At the bottom of Monitor Pass, I saw Aspens changing colour for the first time; their beauty lives up to its reputation. Monitor Pass is spectacular, with beautiful colours and contrasts. We experience such beauty only fleetingly, even if we sit down for a time to enjoy it, yet it remains in our memory, however indistinctly, for a long time. Photos, at least my<\/em> photos, do not do it justice. The experience is so much more, having this beauty surrounding us. It is a reminder that there is a God, and perhaps that is why man is so intent on building houses, offices, roads and cities, and expanding them all the time: do anything to remove the beauty, and the reminder that God exists.

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The drive further south towards Yosemite in the late afternoon and early evening was also beautiful, the golden sunlight illuminating the dry grass-covered hills. The sudden vista over Mono Lake just after sunset was an amazing surprise; I drove around a corner in the road on the crest of a hill, and saw this amazing panorama, the blue and pink of the sky reflecting in the lake, turning the whole view into a deep pink painting. The view was absolutely incredible; I have never seen anything like it before, and the photos do not nearly do it justice. I was awestruck.
\nFinding a room for the night was an adventure. The motels in Lee Vining, where I had hoped to stay, were full. I then tried driving up Tioga Pass in the dark (note: do not try this at home \ud83d\ude42 ), only to discover that the only accommodation there was already full. I finally found a place in June Lake, further to the south – but with neither telephone nor internet connection. My attempts to contact Mary-Anne also failed, because the telephones inexplicably would not accept my credit card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the way from Lake Tahoe to Yosemite, I drove through a beautifully-situated small town called Markleesville, then over Monitor Pass and south to Lake Mono and Lee Vining. At the bottom of Monitor Pass, I saw Aspens changing colour for the first time; their beauty lives up to its reputation. Monitor Pass is spectacular, … Continue reading “Monitor Pass and Lake Mono”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagebuch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}