The Village Lodge, Mammoth Mammoth Lakes

Today was our last adventure in the RV before driving it back to Vegas and handing the keys back, which will be quite sad. We headed to Mono Lake which is a huge lake to the east of Yosemite that is filled by underwater springs. The lake is 2.5 times saltier than the sea and about 100 times as alkaline, meaning there are no fish but plenty of other wildlife (here are two clips of the lake and trillions of flying ...

... to the new shoreline in those days.<br><br>Because of the receding waters, the saline water (salt and bicarbonate of soda) somehow (I don&#8217;t know how), form these Tufas as they recede. Therefore, the highlight of this area is the Tufa formations on the lake. They are very pretty rock formations on the lake. Certainly makes for great photographs! Towards the shoreline, where the water continues to recede, we can actually see the Tufas forming ...

Today we started the drive from Bryce Canyon in Utah to Yosemite Park in California, with the plan to stop half way in a place called Tonopah. However plans changed slightly en route and we ended up driving for 11.5 hours and almost all the way from Bryce Canyon to Yosemite (we stopped 12 miles from the park entrance). I think we're both glad we covered all that distance in one day but it got hard work towards the end. <br><br>The journey ...

... like that. But I definitely want to look descent. So I'm currently on the hunt for the best acne treatment so maybe I can do it again in the future. I actually like the clothes at that store, and they do not come cheap. So getting 5 free outfits for doing an hour long show, that is not bad at all! Plus a few of my friends are doing it with me. So that should be fun. None of us are professional ...

... and she's even managed to get deals on the vacations her family has taken. I never hope to be the coupon queen that she is. She's bordering on or way past ridiculous. But I could definitely take a hint from her on searching for some cheap nuphedragen. I'm not sure I'll find any, and if I don't I'm willing to pay the regular price for it. But it's always worth a try.

Today I went and checked out Yosemite NP. The drive up into Yosemite was quite nice and took a couple of hours from Napa. In Yosemite there are a number of hiking trails ranging in distance from short to a couple of hours long. Alternatively, if your game enough, you can try and climb up El Capitan. There were heaps of people in Yosemite so I mainly just did a drive around tour stopping occassionally for some of the shorter hikes and to check out Yosemite Falls. Unfortunately due ...

... the sumer flowers and look great with the backdrop of trees and huge rocks. On our final day in the Park we did one of the best viewpoints, Glacier Point. It did not disappoint. The drive there was scenic enough but at the viewpoint you literally look down on Yosemite valley but the giant Half Dome rock still towers above you. People climb and walk to the top of the half Dome but we couldn't see anyone doing this while we were there. The views were exceptional and ...

... could have done a better job with the place. Whatever character and real sense of history the town had was stripped bare replaced with signs for hotdogs and popcorn old structures that would probably have been interesting, with some sense of history were stripped down and replaced with gift shops. You win some, you lose some. There's always Arizona. Wish me luck. I found my aunt's home incredibly easy considering how long it's been since I've navigated the freeways. I remember ...

... car park in Bristol. I like the no-nonsense language you get in America. Other examples being the "Walk/Don't walk" at street crossings, the "Wrong Way" at the entrance to a one way road, or the "Right lane must turn right" at road junctions. Put up or shut up. I guess a country that was founded on a Constitution - essentially a rule book, is going to be ...

... I'm quite sure I'm more liberal now (wait, was it possible for me to move any farther left???); I think this is pretty typical, as I've never met someone who went to "developing" countries and traveled backpacker-style without coming home a bit more progressive in his/her thinking. I know there are lots of people who work and live overseas, and that many of them, particularly those doing humanitarian work in really distressed regions, begin to develop a new perspective on ...