USA Trip Day 5 - Marin County and the drive to Yosemite
After a hearty breakfast and some food shopping, we left San Francisco to drive to Yosemite for the next stop on our trip. In order to head north on the 101, we had to cross the Golden Gate Bridge, so we stopped at the Vista Point on the Marin County side for a photo opportunity.
We then made a stop at Muir Woods National Monument, a breathtaking canyon filled with Giant Sequoias and Coast Redwoods. Popular Internet Misconception states that this is where Return Of The Jedi was filmed. It wasn’t, it was filmed in a Redwood forest in Crescent City, CA, but it could have made a convincing understudy…
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After a twisty, turny drive back down to the 101, we started on the drive to Yosemite. K was driving and did a sterling job as we sat in traffic on the I-580, the I-205 and the Highway 120 before we hit the Southbound Highway 99 and the scenery started to change. We moved from the lush greenery of San Francisco Bay, through arable farmland and finally to cattle grazing land. Once we came off the 99 at Merced to do the final hour up to Yosemite, it was dark. We had a scary moment when a deer came running out in front of us, but K saw it in time and slowed. We finally arrived at our accommodation at about 8pm. Our hosts from San Francisco won’t be joining us as originally planned, unfortunately, which means that K, Kir and I have a massive 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom lodge with a table football table, pool table, ping-pong table, volleyball net, gas barbie and a HUGE fridge all to ourselves til Tuesday.
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