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- USA Trip Days 7&8 - Yosemite Valley
We decided to spend the weekend in and around Yosemite Valley. To get there from the Lodge we had to pass through the Wawona Tunnel, which opens out on a spectacular view of the Valley and its main points of interest- El Capitan, Half Dome, Bridalveil Falls, Sentinel Rock and others whose names escape me [...]
- USA Trip Day 6 - Mariposa Grove
In honour of our massive lodge with its massive kitchen, I cooked pancakes for breakfast, which we had with bacon and maple syrup. After a leisurely morning getting our bearings and consulting maps, we headed towards Mariposa Grove with the intention of getting the tram up to Wawona Point, which the guidebooks we had bought [...]
- 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 [...]
- USA Trip Day 4 - Carmel and Monterey
Day 4 of our trip saw us getting a bit more adventurous. We needed to hire a car for the Yosemite-Death Valley-Vegas legs of our trip, so we picked it up a day early and took a trip down the coast to Carmel and Monterey Bay. There is a coastal road which is supposed to [...]
- USA Trip Days 2&3 - San Francisco
I’ve just read back my post from Sunday and it’s far too obvious that I’d been drinking wine all day and been sitting in the sun. Apologies for that.
The last couple of days have been spent taking in the sights, the sounds, the smells of San Francisco. Yesterday covered most of the touristy parts, starting [...]