Comfort Inn Mariposa
4994 Bullion Street Mariposa, California, 95338, United States
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Shoes, Windmills, Bulls and Mountains
Day three of our journey finds us leaving the Wine Country or in our case Beer Country and headed 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 …
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Avocados - big as a guinea pig....
... in the many rivers and the greys of the stone. Driving out the park at
dusk means you see all the colours drawn away from the hills and the sky as the
sun leaves and the ink black fills the whole space. The darkness of the hills was epic.
They loomed up even further then they did in the day and it
was this time when I wanted a hand to hold.
When I, like that little girl on the platform, wanted to wrap myself
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Yosemite
Our last national park of the tour, Yosemite had some big shoes to fill in my book after Yellowstone, and it was amazing, but think it would be even more dramatic in the spring when the waterfalls are at their full-flow best.
Yosemite is more spread out than Yellowstone, so we spent the first day hitting all of the high look out points and checking out the famous Half Dome from Glacier Point, and the El Capitan cliff face. ...
Day 3 - Driving through Mariposa
... our guide turned on for us to see and she also explained how this machine was used to extract gold from the large rocks that were dumped into it's hoppers. The boys really enjoyed looking for all of the numbers in this place...I believe it went all the way to #55.
The boys used some of their "Grandparent Souvenir Money" to buy a bag of colorful rocks, ...
Yo mite se the North Face
... him.
***Fascinating fact Alert*** Only black bears now inhabit Yosemite National Park and no grizzly bears have been seen in California since 1922.
The views from Washburn Point and Glacier Point were even more awesome than we had been led to believe and we could see across the whole of Yosemite Valley. Bridal Falls and Vernal and Nevada Falls could also be seen from these views along with an amazing view of Half Dome. Half Dome is a ...



