Yosemite Sam

After a nice breakfast in the Good Hotel, we got a baaad aftertaste. They charged us pretty steep for using their Parking lot. This was almost the price of the room! We finally got underway at about 9 am and drove the whole 350 km to Yosemite View Lodge, just outside the National Park. During that long drive we got a bit peckish and went fouraging for food. In a small town at a gas station we bought one salami and a bit further along the dusty road at a small stand we bought some strawberries and cherry tomatoes from a nice Mexican. The sun was blazing hot outside and temperatures rose up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit !!! We arrived a little too early to check in at the Yosemite View Thingie, so we decided to visit the park straight away. Yosemite park is breathtakingly beautiful! The biggest mountain is El Capitan. We drove thru the park, took some wonderful pictures of the valley and its local inhabitants: squirrels.. We decided to take the mountain road to Glacier Point, where we had to wait for the Sunset on El Capitan. Once there we got this long exposé about our natural surroundings by one of the female rangers. In a frantic cartoon-like voice (it's a small girl after all!) she went on and on and on... until we wanted to gnaw our heads off...Luckily she stopped, then everybody applauded (except us) and we could enjoy the sunset in all peace and quiet. We left a bit earlier in order to enjoy the small and twisting roads in pitch black darkness back to the lodge. Dead tired once more it was a quick shower and off to bed, in a very hot room with a gigantic propellor-like fan above our heads going woosh woosh woosh all thru the night! Hasta Luego Amigos