Day 28-29 - Yosemite National Park

We took our sweet time heading to Yosemite...stopping at fruit stands and small little amusement parks along the way.  Now, what am I supposed to do with a fresh artichoke?  The garlic ice cream was actually pretty good...however, you could smell my breath for miles!  Scenery was beautiful but bizarre...miles of rolling green hills with barely a tree on them, then fruit orchards and flat land like Saskatchewan, and then into the hills again to the high Sierras.

Today we drove into Yosemite National Park (we are camping just outside since there have been rock slides and the temporary roads cannot handle the Beast because it is too long).  Yosemite is the park where Ansel Adams took many of his famous black and white photography (PJ...you would have loved it!).  The rock formations and waterfalls where absolutely incredible.  This is the right time of year for waterfalls...spring runoff...at the base of the falls we were getting wet from the splashing of the incredible force of the water.  Yosemite Falls (in the background of Mr. Independent hiker) is the 4th tallest waterfall in the world.  Went on a few short hikes...too bad there are so many people...can't imagine what this place is like in the summer!  Was a beautiful day (25 degrees C).  Came back for bbq steak...Jack finally ate his first meat that wasn't blended into mush...so much for the vegetarian!

No worries Judy...I don't think the Eskimos have made the playoffs (never mind the Grey Cup) in years!  

Of course the coupe is with us!  It has its own compartment in the storage area of the Beast!  It has had a good life since we rescued it from your garage Patti!  Jack loves it...we use it almost every day.  And...the tix were $125 each...seems worth it at the time but now....I don't know.

Thanks for the comments everyone...its nice to know we haven't been forgotten...yet.