Got up at 6:00 to get ready. Dereck went and fetched the car and we left at 7:00am for our trip to Yosemite National Park. We drove over the Bay Bridge which is a 2 storey bridge with outgoing traffic on the bottom level and incoming traffic on the top level. We headed out towards Oakland, past Livermore, Manteca, Oakdale and Groveland, to name a few places, before we got to the Yosemite National Park gate. It took us 4 hours driving according to the speed limit as they are extremely strict here. We drove around this park, and boy was this a sight!! It has towering cliffs of granite that had been carved out by glaciers in years gone by and they must have had a snow storm some time recently as there was still loads of snow on the side of the roads and in the forest area. But surprisingly, it was not cold. The temperature was 58⁰F (about 15⁰C). We climbed to 6000 feet and when looking down, boy was this high!!! This is the place where some movies have been filmed with people climbing the face of some of these granite rock faces. I wouldn’t dare!!!!! We bought lunch from a Grill at the visitor’s centre.
After eating our lunch we then headed off towards Fresno. Once out of the park, the temperature rose to 78⁰F (about 28⁰C). We drove through Wawona, Oakhurst, Coursegold, Pinedale through Fresno (which was a huge place), past Calwa, Selma and Kingsburg until we reached a town called Visalia. We found a motel called Days Inn and checked in for the night. This motel is like the one you see in the movies, where the cops always drive in, surround the door and then kick it open! We got a ground floor room which was certainly very pleasant and clean. After unloading the car, we drove around to find a place we could stock up with groceries and ended up shopping at Save Mart. We bought chicken for supper and ate that in our room and then got to sleep at about 10:00pm.
Here is a sunset I managed to capture from outside our room. Stunning hey!!
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1 comment:
Oh wow, the Yosemite National Park is just stunning. I just love all those rock faces set off so beautifully against the blue blue sky. Your sunset pictures is just gorgeous. Hope you got a good night's rest without doors being kicked in .... so its perhaps if you two behave yourselves now ... Hugs from Desire
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