AT#178 - Travel to the Eastern Slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2009

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Doug McConnell of OpenRoad.tv about his love for the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains. Doug has been going to this rugged, stark and beautiful area of California and Nevada since he was a kid. He tells us about Hollywood's love of this area, the oldest trees on the planet, the water wars of California, the tufa fields of Mono Lake, the ghost town of Bodie and more. He also tells of his friends Galen and Barbara Rowell who called this area their home until their deaths in 2002. Galen was a renowned nature photographer and Barbara was his partner and pilot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of The Amateur Traveler is brought to you by Audible.
0:03.2	Please visit audible Podcast.com forward slash traveler
0:08.0	for your free audiobook download.
0:13.0	I got my bags packed on a roll.
0:15.0	I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go.
0:18.0	Looking real good in my passport photo.
0:22.0	Amateur Traveler episode one. in my passport photo.
0:23.0	Amateur Traveler episode 178.
0:25.0	Today the amateur travel goes to the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California
0:30.3	in Nevada.
0:31.3	We'll talk about majestic beauty and just a little bit of scandalous history today in the amateur traveler.
0:37.0	I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.
0:47.0	Before we get into today's interview I do have a couple news stories for you.
0:51.0	The first one is there is a list published of America's
0:54.0	top 10 tourist attractions by number of visitors. Some of these won't surprise you
0:58.6	like Times Square is number one, the Las Vegas Strip is number two, number three is the National Mall, the number The
1:05.0	number four is number two.
1:06.0	Number four is Fanniew Hall market in Boston.
1:08.0	Number five, Disney World's Magic Kingdom.
1:10.0	Six Disneyland, so they have two on the top 10.
1:14.3	Number seven is Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco,
1:17.7	which is odd because we generally recommend to avoiding that.
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