Best Western Yosemite Gateway Oakhurst

After a chilly night's sleep, we were up and out of our motel by 7:30 and in Yosemite Village by 9am, ready to catch a bus up the hill and do a long walk down to the valley which had been recommended by my parents. Unfortunately, despite clear blue skies and bright sun which gave a spectacular view of the valley's sheer granite walls as we approached, the weather on higher ground which had closed our pass the night before had conspired to close the mountain road we needed to take too. This wa...

July 7, from Lake Tahoe to Yosemity National Park sunny 35°C /95°F We are awake at half past six and felt that we had a good night sleep. Meanwhile, getting up in the morning has become a ritual of packing our stuff and getting ready which takes 30 minutes and goes very smoothly. So at seven we sat in the car for a long driving day. For the next three days we will more or less follow highway 395 from Lake Tahoe to Death Valley, but today only to Yosemity and this route is again beautifull ! S...

Today we traveled from Mammoth Lakes to Yosemite, on the way we spent a few hours at Mono Lake, a lake which until 1994 was one of the sources of water for Los Angeles, much to the anger of the locals. This was referred as the California Water Wars. Stunning Scenery. I will leave the pictures to tell the story of the day. The strange towers are Tufa which are Calcium Carbonate naturally formed under water. Love Les & Caroline xxx

Today we pottered around the Park, starting the Day at the Sugar Pine Rail Road, we took a 4 mile round trip on a steam train, through some of the Yosemite countryside. Moving on to see the Giant Sequoias which makes Yosemite so famous finally ending up at the Yosemite Village to look at the visitors center and watch a movie. Last night had to clean the hire car, and do the Laundry. Don't want you thinking Holidays are all glitz and glamor. :-) Love Les & Caroline xxx

Total Miles Covered: 1430 This was to be the last day we spent at Yosemite, so we decided to visit some of the main scenic views, tomorrow we travel back towards the Coast and Santa Cruz. Love Les & Caroline xxx

Hello, Today, we left Eric (Remy's Dad) at San Francisco Airport. He had to go home to go back to work. Everyone was sad to see him go. Alexandre even said how we are going to do without him? Eric did a lot. He organized the days and we saw a lot thanks to him. Our adventure continues.... The goal of the day was to visite Yosemite park but there was a big fire and we could not see much due to the fog and ashes. The kids were disappointed. We even saw the fire from far away. The road were very...

And eastwards we go :) Because this was mostly a travelling day for us, we didn't really end up seeing all that much. There are however a few things worth mentioning... We went southwards to see the second most photographed bridge in California and the famous Big Sur coastline. We couldn't drive too far south however because of the previously mentioned wild fires in California, which caused the roads to be closed from Big Sur and southwards. (The slightly overcast or foggy look attests to the...