Gentle Readers: You know by now that some of the travel adventures I share are current and some are not. This next series will be on a climb of Denali – Mt. McKinley. The adventures reported here happened 30 years ago, between May 19 – 29, 1984.

Black Rock City, Nevada is exactly 603 miles from Hermosa Beach. It was a 21 hour drive. I’d agreed to go to the Hollywood Bowl to listen to YoYo Ma’s attempt at the “tribal sound”. Goat Rodeo is YoYo a mandolin, a fiddle, a base and sometimes a great voice named Aoefi McDonald. They’re great but I’m still not convinced a cello works in the sound.