June 22-23, 2015 -- After visiting Great Basin National Park, the primary stop on my 2015 Summer Road Trip (which also served as my move to California), I headed west to The Promised Land. With no forethought about it, I arrived at Mono Lake, on the east side of Yosemite National Park (which had been my home for four years in the mid-80's) just in time for the summer solstice sunset. I sell under the stars on a backroad, and was back at Monon Lake's South Tufa Towers for sunrise the next morning. What a fine welcoming back to the Sierra.