Weather and circumstances had always kept us from taking California highway 120 on previous trips. It crosses the Sierra’s and is closed in snow season. It also has a few stretches that discourage RV’s. But this morning, I had my chance to take it.<\/p>\n
After only a few miles, I stopped and opened the sunroof. After 240 thousand miles on my Jeep Wrangler, I’ve just gotten the third canvas top. This time I bought a Bestop version that allows you to fold back the first section of the canvas like a sunroof. It’s a lot easier than folding down the whole top as I’ve done before. No stowing the zip out windows or door sections. It can be done in under a couple of minutes. And since it was still cool this morning, I could keep the windows in place and run the heater. I pulled out my tweed cap and was perfectly comfortable as I drove the twisty mountain road through the granite peaks.<\/p>\n
The road was your typical National Park road — two lane blacktop with 35-40 miles per hour the whole way. Being a Tuesday morning, the traffic wasn’t bad, but I did see that every campground I passed was filled. There were lots of cars, but most were parked at hiking trail parking lots. <\/p>\n
The land, with its peaks and forested lakes was plainly Mary Ann country. I’ll have to get her back here with her camera gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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