El Rancho Motel Bishop

... to jackson to pick up his sweetheart and drive her to Missouri, Elisa and Andy went to South Lake tahoe, Elisa has work there and Andy is now headed for the Shasta, as for Heather and i, we are just gouing to drive around, see what the road brings us!

After 3 weeks with the kids we are heading back home. Our 1st stop was Yosemite National Park. We only had about 5 hrs to take it in but what we saw was breathtaking. The granite rocks are mostly flat and straight up. We were able to see Glacier Point, Bridal Veil, El Capitan and Tunnel View. As we were leaving the Park via the Tioga Pass we got a great view at Olmstead Point of clouds resting in the Miountains.
Next stop....Las Vegas,baby.

... Day Weekend (AKA Mule Days) but took our own excursions as well. We spent one day hiking up in the Bishop Pass area, checking out real estate in the Bishop area, and bouldering at the Buttermilks. (We're still trying to pull these pictures off a disposable camera we used while our camera was on the fritz) We also spent a day up ...

Even the announcers said this could be the best Mule Days ever!  They thought so because it is a rare thing to have the Budweiser Clydesdales, the Priefert Percherons and the historic 20-mule team all attend the show in the same year.  But that is fitting because it was the 40th Anniversary of the Bishop Mule Days after all ...

We arrived in Bishop late on the night of Jan 2nd. Nothing was open (wtf? on a saturday night?) so we ordered some Dominoes and watched TV. The next morning we walked around Bishop, had breakfast and checked out the Galen Rowell photography studio. We had been there before but the photos are so amazing and never get old. There was also a guest exhibit of Glen Denny pictures from Yosemite in the 60s. We had seen some of ...

... day - I love the sun....it feels good to wake up in the morning and have sun rays tickle my nose - even if the temps are sub freezing..it doesn't matter.. Today I am going to drive to Big Pine where I hope to meet up with John Svenson - a climber from Haines who comes down here in search of sun and climbing as well - after the weekend I am headed towards Indian Creek to practice the mean cragging skills...

... of the winter we don't have snow, so to see it here in July is very strange for us. We leave the Tioga Pass and continue on highway 395 in southern direction. After approximately 5 miles we turn right. We stop at Tufa parking lot and walk from here to Mono Lake where particular rock formations have arised from lime. This happens because rainwater runs over hard rock underneath the layer of clay and immerge ...

... incredible site. We continued on to Yosemite Valley and picked up a few souvenirs. As we were making our way to our hotel in Oakhurst, we came upon an incredibly awesome view of Yosemite Valley. I could have stood there forever just looking at this fantastic sight. There in front of us were the Bridalveil Falls on the left, Half Dome on the right, and El Capitan. El Capitan is a massive, granite Monolith ...

Uit Latijns-Amerika komen niet alleen goede voetballers, ook in de popmuziek laten de Latino's volop van zich horen. Naast wereldsterren als Shakira, Ricky Martin en zelfs Carlos Santana (die in Zuid- en Midden-Amerika een soort godenstatus hebben) lopen er ook honderden megasterren rond waar wij in Europa nog nooit van hebben gehoord. Wat te denken van namen als Luis Fonsi, Reik, Miranda!, Mana en Vicentico? Ze treden op voor ...

... went down because it took us a while to empty the car and sort bags out and stuff. But we managed to get into our lodgings ok. It was basically a really big canvas tent but with beds and a dressing table and chair. Very basic but quite nice. First impressions of Yosemite was that it was a bit of a circus. There's a dining room, a lounge, an ampitheatre, a pizza place, a grocery store, a gift shop, a pool and a cocktail terrace... a cocktail terrace - in a National Park ...