****Sorry for the delay in updating but thank you for all your requests that we pull our finger out and hurry up**** Well what can I say about Yosemite? It is huge and beautiful and restored my faith in California. I think also the fact I am feeling better now has helped, but you can’t help but love this place. Every few hundred yards you can stop and take loads of amazing shots, so a digital camera is a must! Although the park itself is around 36 miles wide it can take hours to drive through because you keep stopping to [View Full Entry]

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Post Vegas we left for Yosemite National Park via LA. We stayed in a Chinese run motel during this transition period, with Taoist dolls on the JVC ghettoblaster (with twin tape decks to enable high speed dubbing, 3D sound and hyperbase function - all of which didn't work) and dead cockroaches under the bed. Our preffered means of accommodation, as you have already seen, is the tent. Sadly, four poles broke on the old Vango in one windy stay at the Grand Canyon meaning we had to find replacements before we could use it again. Apparently, they don't do replcements in [View Full Entry]

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Hello, Firstly if you ever wondered why I never put the name of the place we're in, in the title . Thats because the most visited blog i've written is the one called Toronto and Niagara Falls, 127 people have viewed that blog, I don't think I know 127 people, next most popular was the Miley Cyrus one. As people just search the title. Anyway, after a very windy drive up and over the hills out of San Francisco and passed a huge windmill farm along the way. We parked up in a little town called Groveland about 22 miles from [View Full Entry]

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Some photos from my trip this summer to California, specifically in Yosemite Valley and Kings Canyon. [View Full Entry]

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We (me and Shashank started from San Francisco) left San Francisco at around 2 am. Initially we had planned on a 2 day hikes: Tenaya lake to clouds rest (Around 10 mile roundtrip) and Mount Dana (Around 6.5 roundtrip). Mount Dana peaks at 13000 ft being the second highest mountain in Yosemite with spectacular views of Mono Lake from top. Its a 216 mile drive from Stanford through a number of state and inter-state highways. Among the numerous exits, the exit to I-238 was closed and we circled around for an hour before we got on track. Winton Avenue became our [View Full Entry]

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Arriving in LA, Claire was at the airport to meet me. It was nice to spend a couple of days with her and Sam in their lovely beachfront apt. I enjoyed catching up with my nephew a bit, and taking long walks along the beach with Claire. She drove me down to Dad’s place, about an hour south. It’s always an interesting experience to spend a week in Dad's Leisure World Senior Community and get a glimpse of his daily routine. I camped out on a futon on his living room floor, went walking with him and his sweet doggie Benny, [View Full Entry]

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My dad and I are off to Yosemite to explore for the weekend. We are meeting up with the Pehl side of the family to hike Half Dome. There are about seven of us doing the hike. I really had to talk my dad into the hike so I am hoping he does not kick this off his bucket list. [View Full Entry]

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Na ongeveer twee uurtjes rijden kwamen we vanmorgen aan in Yosemite National Park. Wat ons opviel is dat het er echt heeeel druk is. Maar Yosemite (uitgeproken als jossimmetie) is erg mooi. We zijn naar Yosemite vallei gereden, een mooie plek met verschillende watervallen, een beek met veel rotsen, mooie bergen etc. We wilden er eigenlijk vandaag wat meer rondkijken in het nationaal park, maar het was er zo druk dat we onze auto nauwelijks konden parkeren. Het leek wel of dat we bij de Efteling waren. Toch nog een klein stukje verder gereden, maar al snel zijn we richting uitgang [View Full Entry]

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After the great welcome we had at the Sequoia National Park by bear and deer and a great time walking among the giants we headed north to the Yosemite park. In the Yosemite we could also see sequoias and several different types of giant trees but what really impressed us was the gigantic rock formations and high waterfalls. We stayed in a very little town called Mariposa which is about 30 miles from the park. Everyday we drove in to the park very early. Mariposa is a quaint town and the architecture with old renovated buildings gives a real feel of [View Full Entry]

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Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes. Slept in today, but still had a full day in Yosemite Valley. It is quite possibly the most beautiful place that I have ever seen. There are giant granite towers on all sides, lots of water, and pine trees everywhere. Saw a bear when I was walking back from Lower Yosemite Falls. Vernal Falls was a hike, but completely awesome when I got to the top. Got a little bit wet from the mist coming off from that. Going to get something to eat tonight and take a soak in the hottub. Planning on going [View Full Entry]

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