Yosemite!
After hours and hours in the van finally arrived at Yosemite (well 6 including a break). Yosemite was beautiful!!!! You feel so tiny next to the what are are they stones? cliffs? walls? things? anyway stunning.....
You really do need more than a few hours, so when I come back I think I'll book one of the Exudus trips that cover all the National Parks - you need to camp out here to get the most from your time!!!! (though camping is not my strong point)
Will have to make sure I book it for earlier in the year. It's too hot (for me anyway) to walk far and it must look so much better when it's much greener and when all the rivers and waterfalls are full of the snow melt (that's if it could as it really takes your breath away now!)
Was in a little bus/van thing from Incredible Adventures and they were all really nice, two girls from Austria, guy from Australia, couple and their friend from Florida, family from India and the driver. Sounds a lot but it was cool. You don't end up walking with anybody else though you just pick your own trail and just go for it. Pete the driver (when he found out I'd done Macchu Piccu said right then you should go on the Nevada Waterfall trail. Yeh right - didn't mention to him I got the train down to Macchu Piccu then walked rest of way - didn't walk the Inca Trail exactly. So got to bottom of trail and dawned on me - waterfall needs height right? Right - soooo steep and it was way too hot for me. Only managed to bottom of waterfall, were I took a breather before heading back, which was good and have photo of squirrel type thing right by my feet. Oh yeh, and 'cos of heat my butty has melted but you're not allowed to give it to the animals so have to take this smelly (it was cheese) butty back to the bear safe bins. Yep, there's bears but didn't see any. Only squirrels, ground squirrels (same but fatter - bit like myself) and chipmonks which were too quick to get a photo off. Also saw some deer which I took a photo of but they were darting off so you may not recognise what they are.....!
On the drive there (even though it took forever), you got a real good look around the countryside.
I feel a road trip coming on ...........!
