25thousandmiles – USA

It’s a while since I actually blogged so I thought I’d give you a bit of an update while we have our lunch in the Rockin’ Java Cafe in the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco (it’s still full of hippies).

You’ll have seen our videos of Yosemite National Park and Angus will post some photos on the site, but I just wanted to give a brief description of our time there.

When we were at the Grand Canyon I thought to myself that the over-used American word “Awesome” should be reserved for use only when describing the Canyon, but then we got to Yosemite. Wow. Double Awsome! Staying over at Tuolumne Meadows in the tent cabin was a great experience – we really felt like we were in the wilderness (as close as you can get without hiking further into the park).

I drove us over the Tioga Pass, which runs through the park, the next day. The scenery was amazing – sheer granite rock faces, forests, lakes. It really is a breathtaking place. We really hoped that we’d see a bear, bobcat or something, but all we managed was a few Golden Crested Ground Squirrels! Cute little things.

We were able to spend the whole day in the park and gradually worked our way over to Midpines, about 20 miles west of the park, where we were staying at the Yosemite Bug Rustic Mountain Resort. What a place! We were supposed to be in a tent cabin again, but we decided to upgrade to a private double lodge for a bit of comfort (actually only the same price as the tent cabin the previous night!).

We had a brilliant evening in the lounge/bar – listening to live music again and making more new friends. The band, Jezzebelle, were Katie and Gary from Dublin. They are touring around California promoting themselves. They are an excellent acoustic band. It turned out that they would be in LA on Sunday 27th Sept so we are going to have an extra night in LA so we can all meet up at The Joint.

We were all feeling pretty rough the next day, but we were up and about quite early so that we could drive over to San Francisco.

I shall save that for the next blog!

Cheerio.