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| Tunnel view of Yosemite Valley |
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| Upper Falls of Yosemite Falls |
12 years and 2 weeks (to the same day of the week - Tuesday), Donna, Donna's niece Katie, Donna's nephew Doug, and I arrived at Yosemite Valley in a Cruise America rental RV with reservations for a campsite in Upper Pines Campground. Katie and Doug are grown. Donna and I are back reminiscing. In 1999 I described the water falls as "angry". The Merced River ran swift. Highway 120/140 was washed out. The sky was so clear and blue that we called it "Yosemite Blue"; a color we have compared every sky to ever since.
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| Looking SW down Yosemite Valley |
Today it's cloudy. The Merced is higher. The water falls are almost sprays as significantly more snow melt comes running off. In fact, there's numerous snow melt cascades all along the cliffs. So much so that it reminds me of our 2008 trip up Tracey Fjord to Sawyer Glacier (Alaska). The roads are intact. If you're an American in Yosemite today, you're in the minority. The dollar is so cheap the
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| Snow melt above The Ahwahnee Hotel |
rest of the world is here on its vacation. There's so many automobiles and rental RVs in the Valley with California plates that I'm sure there are no more rental vehicles in Los Angeles & San Francisco. It's so crowded that it takes 15 to 20 minutes to get through a 4-Way Stop. So we're taking the advice of the Park Sierra staff and only visiting the Valley mid-week. We'll be back next week with the bicycles.
It's just good to be here, again. Later, David
Yosemite Valley was so crowded that it reminded me of Walt Disney World.
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