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cineSOURCE’s 5 Day 4 Season Road Trip
Friend of cineSOURCE enjoys Deep Creek Hot Spring at sunset. Photo: D. Blair
Note: The 5 Day/4 Season Road Trip starts 7PM, Friday, April 27th, see itinerary below, or contact us: 510 220.2126
Hitting the Road
Have you ever fantasized about hitting the road, spontaneously, if only for a few days?
Did you know that California has three deserts, three major mountain ranges, 300 hot springs and almost a million miles of cool back roads?
Did you know that cineSOURCE hosts tours — indeed, one is leaving West Oakland this Friday evening?
In fact, all you need is a sleeping bag and pad and a hat and to show up at 7pm, Friday, April 27th, 2200 Adeline Street—after you RSVP, of course (Doniphan: 510 220.2126 or ).
Our newly-rented van will whisk you to Carmel for dinner and then to Big Sur to camp and do a beach morning. Then we'll do a fascinating back road crossing of California to camp at the first of our four hot springs, Remington, near Lake Isabella.
Spring flowers in the mountains near Bad Water, Death Valley, lowest point in continental US. Photo: D. Blair
Sunday night, after enjoying the desert's spring flowers (see Death Valley Flower Report), we camp, cookout and play music under the full moon at the LOWEST point in the US. It will be in the 80s at night!
As well as discussing film, doing yoga, finding fantastic vistas and what ever else we want, the next days include three more hot springs, the Manzanar and Lone Pine Movie museums, viewing the HIGHEST point in the US (Mt. Whitney) and spring skiing.
The costs will be shared evenly and start at about $300 for friends of cineSOURCE. For new friends, it is plus 25%, or starting around $400.
For more info, come to our Martini Wednesday's Open House, call 510 220.2126, or email .
Join us! California is the mother of all road trips and literally in our back yard.
Itinerary Summary
Leave Oakland Friday 7:00 pm sharp for Big Sur, 155m, dining in Carmel. Saturday we swim Sand Dollar Beach, take Hunter-Ligget and other back roads to Bakersfield and camp at Remington Hot Springs, near Lake Isabella (270m). Sunday: Death Valley (210m) stopping for desert flowers, camping in Bad Water, lowest point in US and enjoying full moon. Monday it's on to Mammoth, 264m, stopping at the Lone Pine's Film History and Manzanar museums and sunsetting at Whitmore hot spring. Tuesday we ski, hike or hot spring and stay at a motel. Wednesday we return to Oakland, 316m, via lunch at Mono Lake, hot springs near South Lake Tahoe, hike at Echo Lake and dinner in Placerville, arriving by 11:00pm.
The Sierras, including Mount Whitney (far left), the highest point in continental US, near Lone Pine. Photo: D. Blair
9 am Partington Leave
10 am Sand Dollar Beach (28m), swim
12 am Leave
1:30 pm San Lucas (53m) Lunch
Night Remington Hot Springs, (200m) South of Lake Isabella, Camp
Hydratherapy yoga, Whitmore Hot Springs, near Mammoth. Photo: D. Blair
Sunday Lake Isabella to Death Valley, 200 miles
Hot Springs, side trip 110m
Viewing of flowers, multiple
Bad Water, Camp, cookout, play instruments loudly
Full Moon, 5:23 PM
Tuesday Mammoth Lakes
Spring Skiing, Mammoth Ski Area, or
Hiking at Convict Lake, or
More Hot Springs
Night, Mammoth, Motel
Spring flowers and Sierras int the distance, Death Valley. Photo: D. Blair
Wednesday Mammoth to Oakland, 316
Morning, Mono Lake, Hot Springs
Lunch, Echo Lake, hike
Dinner, Placerville
10:00 Oakland
Over five days and few hours, we will have experienced beaches, desert flowers, hot springs and fantastic vistas; we will have done music, yoga, photography, swimming and skiing, and we will be ready to reinvigorate our world with fresh vision, feelings and accomplishment.
I have done this tour four times, first in 2003, and it never ceases to surprise, even shock, me. So much is right in our back yard, a few hours drive away, yet we often remain in our urban self-indulgences.