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From: Paul Furman on 4 May 2008 21:08
er wrote:
>> Good route. Though if you are skipping Yosemite you might want to try
>> getting to 395 via Tahoe to ring the changes so to speak.
>>
>> With Mono Lake visits the thing to remember, is the brine flies can really
>> spoil a visit in mid to late Summer.
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>
> Not sure what you mean by "ring the changes."
>
> Out of curiosity, I did a Mapquest plugging in the Donner Pass route, and
> it's a bit longer, both time and distance than the route through Yosemite.
> Then, I simply plugged in San Francisco to Lee Vining, and Mapquest routed
> me over Sonora Pass. About an hour less than the route through Yosemite.
> Never taken that route before. Do you know it?

Sonora pass is my favorite. You can tell no engineer designed that road,
it's just a paved wagon trail.

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From: Paul Furman on 4 May 2008 21:25
Robert Coe wrote:
>
> As for the word under discussion, it could be an example of a native American
> word being mangled by Spanish spelling conventions. I suppose that
> "too-uh-lum-nay" would be the approximate pronunciation in Spanish, but it
> doesn't look like a Spanish word to me. If the 3-syllable pronunciation were
> original, it might have been blurred by the transformation to Spanish
> orthography, which has (as best I recall) neither the "tw" sound cluster nor
> any obvious way to represent it.
>
> Bob

And the Mokeolumne is not far away :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokelumne_River
'The name, pronounced [mɑ.ˈkel.ʌm.ni], is Plains Miwok and is
constructed from moke, meaning fishnet, and -umne, a suffix meaning
"people of".'

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