Groveland, United States

Hey, sorry about the lag.  We've been without decent internet for 3 days now.  We have the internet this morning, but we are heading out to raft in Yosemite.  Everything is going great.  California has been awesome. The sun is finally ...

To get to the east entrance of Yosemite we climbed over the Sierra Nevada's.  The view from the top overlooking Carson City (Nevada) was amazing.  You would expect it to be a desert but actually it was lush green pastures full of cattle & ...

... to get stuck in, however we felt we'd leveraged that time to the absolute maximum so no complaints I suppose.  Now, the Groveland Hotel is a bizarre place - on entering our room we were both amused and bemused to find teddy bears laid out on our beds ...

... fading, and our prospective pass to the west closed due to snow, we sought out a bed in the mountain village of Groveland and, finding the hotels beyond us, settled for a very basic, but habitable, motel. Dinner was excellent though (a Buffalo burger ...