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Comfort Inn Mariposa
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giant trees are my friend :D
... all the way there, so nothing went wrong this time and we didn't even need Gerry. We got to the entrance and went over to Mariposa Grove to see some Giant Sequoias! And yes, they were very giant. Amazing huge beautiful trees. We took the tram tour up and ...
Cesta na sever
Tento rok pripadol v USA Den Nezavislosti - 4 jul na pondelok, takze sme tu mali jeden z mala predlzenych vikendov. Den Nezavislosti je v USA naozaj velky patritisticky narodny sviatok. Pre nas to vsak znamenalo len jeden den volna navyse, tak sme ho ...
Na vikend do parku Yosemite
... sme Katku a Anku spoznali na prvy pohlad. :-) Ak si spominate ako asi vyzeraju zapadnute americke mestecka/dediny niekde v horach, tak Mariposa je ziarivy priklad. Je to jedno z miest v ktorom si mozte urobit "zakladny tabor" pri ceste do Yosemite, ale ...
25eme jour ou l'accident
... and we decided to have a morning shower to awake everyone.Today we are going to Yosemite national parc one of the most beautifull in United States, we are really happy to get back in mountains but at the same time the cold and the snow.We don't know yet ...
Yosemite from East to West
... great to be fair and so we told him we'd be back soon once we'd got some money...yeah right! The hostel we ended up in, in Mariposa was so much nicer and it had a bbq and a pool! We fired up the bbq that night for some steak sandwiches and relaxed in our ...
Yosemite National Park
Headed into the lower park of the park to today to check out all the main attractions. It is also the busiest park of the park and so parking was a little tricky at times but we managed! Our first stop was at the visitors centre where a helpful guide ...
Day 6
... and the rocky cliffs and the beautiful mountains and trees! then we drove back on ourselves back up towards yosemite. we stopped here in mariposa for the night. we blagged a king size room with breakfast and free internet and now we are off to see ...
Yosemite
... is the background information on the park, from Wikipedia: The Yosemite National Park is a national park located largely in Mariposa and Tuolumne Counties in California. The park covers an area of 3081 square kilometres and reaches across the western ...
The Pacific Coast Highway 1 route
... King served with the usual help-yourself soda fountain! We were back on the road again and reached the small town of Mariposa along Route 99 at about 21h30. We filled up with petrol as suggested as there is only one petrol station in Yosemite ...
Jun 11, 2011
Yosemite
... quite late in the evening. It began to rain, so it got darker much earlier than it should have done. The drive back to Mariposa is about an hour, but it took 1.5 hours because of the rain. Last night we had a Chinese for tea and hoped to ...
Oh Yosemite!!
... because the road , while stunningly beautiful, runs very close to creeks and dropoffs for about 40 miles. In any case Mariposa is another classic Californian small town, just like Margaret River but more beautiful. Yosemite itself is dramatic in its ...
Snow Chains?
... the answer's been Snapper...he thinks it's always Snapper.I think he's right. Drove 35 miles to the edge of Yosemite near Mariposa to hike up to a Sequoia Grove.It's the world's tallest tree and a very impressive sight,particularly once fallen ...
Day 3 - Driving through Mariposa
... up of a big carnival for the Labor Day weekend. We drove through the main part of the town and stopped to visit the Mariposa Museum and History Center. This place is a wonderful stop for anyone that wants to learn about life in the 1800's during ...
Long day in the driver's seat
... like meerkats. Then into the Park to take the exit at El Portal via a demanding 25 mph limit twisty roads. Our hotel at Mariposa was a further 30 miles away and we had to take a detour due to a past landslide wiping out the westbound carriageway. Was ...
Manchester - Mariposa
... we got through, caught the free 'air train' to the car rental and got car all very quickly. The journey up here to Mariposa was hard going (rush hour coming out of san fran), but will take some pics in daylight in the morning........at the mo, all ...
Shoes, Windmills, Bulls and Mountains
... south and east over towards our next destination Yosemite. The closest we could get for a reasonable price was a Comfort Inn in Mariposa about an hour from Yosemite. So we load up all our treasures and hit the road but before we can even get out of ...
Yosemite National Park - Tuolumnoe Medaows
... we rock hopped and Oska burnt off some fuel he'd stored from too many hours in the car. Climbed the Pothole Dome before driving on through the park (with stops at Olmsted Point and Tenaya Lake). Spent the night in Mariposa - to return the next ...
Yosemite National Park - Yosemite Valley
... Valley. The number of people in the park wasn't too bad - nothing like the circus we experienced at the Grand Canyon. Went to Tuolumne Grove in the afternoon and walked down to the giant sequoia grove. Back to Mariposa for the ...
Cesta na sever
Dnes je pred nami cesta cez puste Nevady priamo na sever. Odchadzami pri miernom mrholeni v Las Vegas. Je rano a je tu uz poriadne horuco a caka nas celodenne soferovanie na sever. Nakoniec sme do tretej poobede prisli az na vychodnu stranu narodneho ...
Flame and Laughter
... a new hostel. A wonderful couple that I had the pleasure of befriending this past winter were finding their home in Mariposa for a while. A very free-spirited, nomadic couple - they had recently bought a van and turned it into a comfy little ...
Breathtaking Yosemite
Spent day in Yosemite. First stop was Mariposa Grove, being a giant sequoia forest.Lots of big trees and we were blessed with a close encounter with a Mule Eared Deer at one point. After the grove and a 20 minute wait in roadworks, we drove up to ...
Yosemite Pines
... going through the park. Before we dealt with that, we made it to Yosemite just in time to get into the parking lot at the Mariposa Grove of sequioa trees. I had been to redwood grove up north so I wasn't totally blown away but they were still ...
Mariposa (stopover)
... pretty market town, but very quiet on a Sunday. With some trouble we found and Ice Cream shop that was open for lunch. In Mariposa itself, not many establishments were open. This is probably the low season and it was on a Sunday. Yet, the local restaurant ...
To Yosemite
... and then through a wide valley and then into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Just outside the town of Mariposa was the Yosemite Bug Rustic Mountain Resort, which is where we were staying. It had dorm rooms but we had opted ...
Day 185 Bakersfield - Yosemite - Mariposa
... , to keep the road open. It was not long before we exited the park and headed for the KOA listed as the "Yosemite/Mariposa KOA" Our wonderful Mandy,managed to mislead us a little, by telling us "Youhave reached your destination" about 1 mile before we ...
Day 80: Snow chains but no snow
... , but this was the first sign of any traditional Red Indian artifact we have seen since hitting mainland America. We arrived in Mariposa about 4pm, a small town 10 miles or so from the Yosemite Park Gates, so after checking into our rather crap hotel, we ...
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