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One of my daily delights in the flight Sim, is exploring the sites on many Cowboy, etc, Hollywood Films; filmed in and around California!

Owens Valley; containing Lone Pine, Independence, Bishop, and Yosemite.






The route can be travelled from Palm Springs, to Reno and Carson City....(Highway 395).

Lots of Desert Scenery, (and dead cowboys, thieves, murders, rapists, escaped criminals!)... ...!

The location:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owens_Valley

And Film details!
http://www.dukewayne.com/showthread.php?t=2528

Paul.....FS 2004, FS Navigator, UT USA, VOZ 1.8, Plan-G v2.0.5...a six-shooter, a Stetson hat, and a very big bottle of water!

P.S....watch out for Rattle Snakes!.... ...!

P.P.S...Don't forget; "Fozzer's Tours" can take you to all these exciting places!... ...!

Goodly morning Paul...

Bet you are wearing a ten gallon cowboy hat and singing "Oh I am back in the saddle again...roaming the range ...."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_the_Saddle_Again

Wonderful set.

Here you go Paul...next time you are flying over the bad lands...sing this to yourself....

I'm back in the saddle again
Out where a friend is a friend
Where the longhorn cattle feed
On the lowly gypsum weed
Back in the saddle again

Ridin' the range once more
Totin' my old 44
Where you sleep out every night
And the only law is right
Back in the saddle again

Whoopi-ty-aye-oh
Rockin' to and fro
Back in the saddle again
Whoopi-ty-aye-yay
I go my way
[ From: http://www.elyrics.net ]
Back in the saddle again

I'm back in the saddle again
Out where a friend is a friend
Where the longhorn cattle feed
On the lowly gypsum weed
Back in the saddle again

Ridin' the range once more
Totin' my old 44
Where you sleep out every night
And the only law is right
Back in the saddle again

Whoopi-ty-aye-oh
Rockin' to and fro
Back in the saddle again
Whoopi-ty-aye-yay
I go my way
Back in the saddle again

Lyrics from <a href="http://www.elyrics.net">eLyrics.net</a>

ha...i always wondered about those towns in the middle of such desolation....how did they get water...food....what about plumbing....etc......big mystery to me.....

...funny you should mention that, Doug... ....

I sang that very same song to myself as I tootled around the Herefordshire* countryside on my motor-bike, this Sunday afternoon... ...!

Paul....Yippie-Yi-Yo!... ...!

* Where the Cowboys; "white-faced Herefordshire cattle" come from.... ...!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereford_%28cattle%29

yancovitch wrote:ha...i always wondered about those towns in the middle of such desolation....how did they get water...food....what about plumbing....etc......big mystery to me.....

Hello Yan... ...

I think they rely very much of melt-water from the nearby mountain streams and reservoirs, and their own irrigation systems.

...I don't know where all the Poo goes?.... ...!

Just have a think about "Las Vegas" water problems, etc, etc...slap-bang in the middle of the Nevada Desert!

For some folks, it must be an awful life, stranded in a one-horse town, in the middle of a desert!

(Any Sim V members in that particular boat?)... ...!

Paul.... ...!

Lovin' the redish desert textures, Paul....great shots

Fozzer, you and the other young-uns don't know it but we used to have FLYING COWBOYS!

Ayup. Back when I was a small-un I never missed an episode of....

OldAirmail wrote:Fozzer, you and the other young-uns don't know it but we used to have FLYING COWBOYS!

Ayup. Back when I was a small-un I never missed an episode of....

Young-uns?.... ...!

While you were sitting cross-lagged and google-eyed, watching Sky King on your 1950's 9" TV set, I was with the British Army on the Rhine in Germany.... ...!

Paul....Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers..... ...!

Fozzer, this is a sad but true story.

Back in 2001/02 I was talking to a co-worker who was somewhere in his early to mid 30s.

I had heard that (at the time) many teens and even collage grads had little understanding about world history.

So I asked him a REALLY dumb question that would be hard for a fairly intelligent fellow to miss.

"Mike, during WWII who’s side were the Germans on, our side or the enemies side?"

My opinion of him dropped about 40 points when he answered that the Germans were on our side.


Luckily, what I did in SAC was nothing. And nothing happened.

The A to Z of Movie Locations...>>> http://www.movie-locations.com/

Where I get my inspirations from, for somewhere to explore, in the Flight Sim!

Presently chasing the Peterbilt truck up Highway 14 from Los Angeles to Palmdale, and the Soledad Canyon Road, in my Cessna 150, in the Stephen Spielberg film; "Duel", with the terrified Dennis Weaver out in front!...>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel_%281971_film%29

Paul... ...!

this fozzer guy is a riot....if he ever kicked the bucket, i think there would be a durn big hole left in simviation....

YES, but he's still young and PLAYING

Bass wrote:YES, but he's still young and PLAYING

...almost 80....and still having fun, pretending to explore the World every day, in my Cessna 150 Aerobat...

...and my Peterbilt, 18-wheeler trucks...

...its amazing whet you can achieve, with a Flight Simulator and a Truck Simulator, and a very vivid imagination.... ...!

In between Motorcycling and cooking amazing meals...

...all at the same time... ...!

Paul....aka; Am Be Dexterous... ...!

South California Wild Fires to visit tomorrow.... ...!

...and lots of Dragons to fight, and flaxen-haired Maidens to rescue...The excitement never ends!.... ...!