Settled into our luxurious Boulder
Creek Resort for one night that stretched to two. Neighbors – fabulous; pool and spa – marvelous; Roku deliriously happy
in his surroundings – check. Pull
through site, shade trees, super nice people is what this place is all about, and
we lapped it up like a kitten with spilled milk.
Turns out the town of Lone Pine is one
of the most filmed in the history of cowboy movies – who knew? They document this at their Lone Pine Film
Museum which is so cool it’s off the charts.
Behind the town, toward the mountains, lie the Alabama Hills, and a
winding song of a road called “Movie Road.”
That’s where most of the movie magic happened and it is a sight to behold :
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| Lone Pine Film Museum Saddle |
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| Lone Pine Film Museum Saddle |
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| Roy Rogers Riders Rules - Excellent! |
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| Good Old Roy Rogers |
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| Dale Evans Chair Fabric |
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| Quentin Tarantino's Chair - he's a visitor and speaker at the museum |
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| Hand tooled chaps |
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| Tom Mix - yummy! |
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| Tremors man-eating worm |
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| Nudie the tailor of stars, rhinestone cowboy maker |
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| Nudie's Caddie |
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| Nudie's Caddy |
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| Nudie's Caddie |
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| Nudie's Caddy |
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| Nudie, his suit and his caddy |
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| The Lone Ranger and Silver |
Spent the evening talking with our very
interesting neighbors, a mom and daughter doing a “shake out” of the daughter’s
trailer, which is a cool fold up type.
Laura, the daughter, lives in a Death Valley town called Ridgecrest with
her husband and son. Turns out the town
is all military – both civilians and enlisted.
She’s an engineer and a lawyer, and manages projects, while her husband
works as an office manager. On the side
they belong to the SCA – Society for Creative Anachronism – and attend “Wars”
and such between different kingdoms.
Very interesting.
Her mother, “The Colonel” (forgive me
for not holding on to her name!), lives in Illinois but visits Laura and family
quite often. She is retired from the
Army and served as a nurse. Talk about a
live wire! She has been in the Peace
Corp, travels to India and Tibet in her nursing capacity, volunteers at the
American Legion, belongs to a walking group and goes to church on Sunday. Whew!
She’s also got a great sense of humor, loves her daughter and is kind to
the bone. She and Tony understood their
service very well and had a lot of stories to talk about and compare. We feel very fortunate to have met these two
women.
