Editing Bodie (section)

==<Font Face="Algerian">Why Bodie?</Font>==
When I was young my mother and brother and I took vacations to Sequoia, King's Canyons, and Yosemite parks.  We also visited relatives in South Dakota. On one of the trips, somewhere around 1971 or 1972, we stayed in Yosemite then went out east and up to South Dakota.  On that trip for unknown reasons mom took us off the beaten path down 14 miles of road a VW bug should never have traveled. That put us in Bodie, California at around 9am.  We spent the day there wandering around the ghost town, talking to another visitor who was quite familiar with the place.  He had had family that had been born and raised and apparently lived their whole life in this fading place. I suspect he had ulterior motives for talking to my brother and I, that being the semi-hippie mother.  He had no luck as we left and never saw him again but for that day we got a history lesson of this once thriving boom town.