Guess what? I'm on vacation for a few days. I'm still online, and I'll post on topics of national importance when they pop up, but mostly I'll be driving around scenic places and taking photographs.
So where am I? This picture is the clue. The more precise your answer, the more genius points you'll rack up.
UPDATE: The mountains gave it away. I spent Monday driving up US 395 to photograph the Eastern Sierra, and stopped along the way at Manzanar, formerly home of a World War II internment camp for Japanese American citizens. It is now a national historic site.
Manzanar?
So it would appear.
Mount Williamson from Manzanar, in Inyo County, showing a guard tower
Google Maps Street View: https://imgur.com/a/8N6VxQN
Manzanar. Standing on the access road between 395 and the guard tower, facing West.
Earth
How many points do I get for "Somewhere with mountains?"
Are Japhy and Ray with ya?
There's a marked viewpoint on the road up to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest (out of Big Pine) where you can see the whole panorama of the Sierra from the Green Horns to above Bishop. One of the most spectacular views I've ever seen. Just a thought.
So you're doing the Andrew Sullivan thing now?
Stalag Luft 17?
Siberia? Xinjiang?
So what does Marian do while you're on vacation?
LOL
For a few years, one of CNET's crew ran a where-was-this-photo-taken challenge. I won a GoPro one year.
The first step is to drop the image into Google Images to see if the search engine can recognize what it's looking at.