Glacier Point

Nevada Fall (top); Vernal Fall (bottom)

Today we tried a new tactic:  Get up early and beat everyone else into the park (and it worked well!)

This was Donna and my first trip to Glacier Point.  So everything from there was completely new to us.  We can finally say we've seen Nevada Fall, Vernal Fall and Illilouette Fall.  Plus we finally got to see Yosemite Valley from above.  And...are you ready for this?...I finally got both upper and lower Yosemite Falls in one picture frame!

We got some good bicycling in, too.  We stayed toward the back of Yosemite Valley riding from the campgrounds to Mirror Lake & the Happy Isles Nature Center.   Plus a visit to that wonderful Hotel known as The Ahwahnee that reminds us oh so much of Walt Disney World  - the attention to detail, the crowds, the prices...  But, it is such a beautiful place to visit and eat lunch!

Upper & lower Yosemite Falls (in one picture!)

Things on our "to do" list are getting checked off.  The 50,000 mile service for the truck is complete, and we have the parts necessary to remove/replace the truck's airbags.  We've gotten the new tire pressure monitoring system for the trailer and it's up and seems to be doing fine.  We have a plate to install & repair one of the brackets on one of the trailer storage doors, but it needs holes drilled and pop-riveted in place before we can reinstall one of the door struts.

Mirror Lake

So this week we continue to work on the "to do" list.  Airbags come off the truck Tuesday.  We've got a nagging air leak on one trailer tire, so we'll run it down to Fresno to see if they can find out why & repair.

Merced River

Oh, and Donna is now the proud owner of an iPad2.  We've finally gotten the Verizon 4G MiFi to an acceptable level that we can use it to connect both the laptop and the iPad using it.  Part of our issue is that the laptop AVG anti-virus, firewall, yada, yada, yada, sees the MiFi as an intruder and kicks it off.  Switching to the Windows firewall seems to resolve that issue.  Our current tech inventory consists of a laptop, an e-reader, a "smart" phone that now thinks we're in New Mexico, an iPad2, and one regular cell phone.  Yep, folks, I think we might be finally gettin' into the 21st Century.  

Well, gotta go - there's Oreos on the table!  Later, David

Merced River

Illilouette Fall