July 26 Lunar Orbit

Quick three-day trip to the Moon. We drove down on Monday and spent some time at the Base, preparing to prepare the Vehicle. On Tuesday we did the full dry-run with the Vehicle on its launch-pad, checking all its sensors and putting it through its paces. But the Lunar Weather was not right for launch, so we deorbited.

We took the long way home, visited hot springs in Long Valley Caldera, Hot Creek (swimming forbidden now), and up into Yosemite National Park, where we swam in Tenaya Lake, and drank directly from the soda spring at Tuolumne meadows. The photo here is somewhere near the Hot Creek geological site, on the Long Valley Caldera - a little bit of Iceland in California.