Anniversary

Yosemite Valley looking west

Deer day @ Yosemite

Today Donna and I celebrated our 32nd wedding anniversary.  She's still the only person I know of that could have tolerated me this long!  We spent the morning in Fresno finishing off the truck maintenance, the afternoon napping at the trailer sleeping off lunch at In-N-Out Burger, and enjoyed a fantastic meal at Ducey's (Bass Lake, CA) this evening. 

Like most other weeks we've gone for another bike ride around Yosemite Valley and drove out to White Wolf & Olmsted Point off of Tioga Road (Hwy 120).  While we've had a great time at Yosemite, it's not been a good week for Yosemite.  You may have read that they lost three people at Vernal Falls this week.  What's not being widely reported is that they also had one person killed when a suburban ran off Tioga Pass Road near White Wolf on Tuesday.  Nope, not a good week for Yosemite Natl Park.

This week also represents our one year anniversary without owning a stick & brick house.  I think it's still refreshing to not have a house hanging over our heads.  While I'm not tolerating purchasing new stuff that doesn't work right out of the box very well (there's been a lot of that since last summer), everything else seems to be doing OK.  Donna says she still needs to work on connecting with people.  While we're hoping the addition of a iPad2 will help, connecting for Donna is vastly different than connecting for me.  Two sentences over a quick chit-chat via Facebook is fine for me.  I don't think that'd work for Donna.  Time will tell.

We're rapidly approaching the end of our stay here at the Park of the Sierra in Coarsegold, CA. Sunday we move to Petaluma, CA for a week where we'll visit with some of Donna's cousins.  We're looking forward to that (and the cooler weather).  Hmmm...Guess I'd better get out and check the heaters before we leave.  Later, David.