Yosemite

Monday, January 15, 2007: We left Sacramento to head for the Sierras. We stayed the next two nights in a little RV park in Greeley Hill, CA. On Tuesday we drove to Yosemite. Jan and Pamm got me a new friend called Smokey the Bear. We had fun looking at all the beautiful places on the way to Yosemite Village. We stopped to play in the snow. We found a discarded old snowboard and I had a great time sledding ( and crashing!). I also tried to build a snowman. This is the best time to travel. We had most of the roads and pullouts to ourselves. There was very little snow, only a little spot on the roadside that had about a foot of snow, just enough to have fun with. The rest of the area was dry and bare. We didn’t care too much for the village at Yosemite, but the hiking trails are awesome. If you have never been there, you definitely should go. Yosemite is in a very deep, narrow valley, with towering cliffs on all sides. I have seen many pictures of the place, but they cannot possibly convey the tremendous beauty and awe of this place! We entered the valley from the high road along the tops of the cliffs and then drove out by way of the valley floor along the river. There were frozen waterfalls, and frozen parts of the river. Again there were barely any other cars on the road. It is hard to believe that we could have this place almost completely to ourselves.