Left Gardnerville 7:30 in the morning and while the roads in some places were bad, most of it was fair. Made Bridgeport by one o'clock passing Topaz Lake which was wonderful scenery. Left Bridgeport for Mono Lake, when six miles out we got stuck. The clutch would not work. So we turned back. Had to go the entire distance in low gear and when we got there found out they could do nothing for us. The motor support on one side was broken and so the motor hung down on that side and we were unable to get the car into high gear. Two mechanics from Mono Lake happened to be there and advised us to go to their place where they had a blacksmith shop and would make a new support for our motor. They used some wire to hold the motor up temporarily so we could run in high gear. We started out for Mono Lake about 4:00 P.M twenty-five miles away. Everything went fine and the scenery was just marvelous, especially the afterglow of the sunset on Mono Lake. It cannot be described, glorious hardly does it justice. About 4 3/4 miles from Mono Lake we misunderstood a sign and went in the wrong direction. The roads were awful and as it was getting really dark, it was very dangerous, our lights being rather poor. After going about 3 1/2 miles-most of the time I was running on behind the car to put a stone under the rear tire when the engine stalled, and every foot or so, it stalled. The grade was very steep. When we discovered our mistake, we decided to pitch our camp there and go to Mono Lake early the next morning.