A long road through Swansea, California on the way to Lone Pine with the Sierra Nevada in the background. This place was particulary intetresting to us as we live in Swansea, South Wales. Not much left of the Californian version unfortunately, named by the men who left Wales in search of their fortune mining and processing silver. Hard to imagine how isolated they must have felt so far from home and miles from any civilisation.

Lone Pine is an amazing place, parts of it like a western movie set. If you ever get the chance to go you must have lunch at the Alabama Hills Café.