Another surprise
This morning we planned to travel through Yosemite National park. I had seen pictures of the place in a View master slide that my father gave me when I was 8 and had been fascinated by sound of the place ever since.
We were not disappointed. Having been below sea level the day before we spent the first part of the day climbing and climbing.
We saw notices advising you to cut off your car air-conditioning and there were frequent pull in areas with radiator water.
When we came to the ranger hut, to pay the entry fee we saw the height was 9945 ft. This is the highest I have ever been in a car, and good old Trigger didn’t let us down.
The scenery was fantastic, each corner delivered a new vista that we had to stop and photograph. The whole place was fantastic and one of the reasons why this trip has been so special.
We were so high that we were above the snow line, something that pleased julie as she was able to make snowballs!
We had to watch out for bears, so we waited till we left the park to eat, where I had a small club sandwich as you can see.
Leaving Yosemite we headed for the coast, driving through more fantastic but different scenery. We realized that we would not make Monterey, as planned so we stopped at a small town of Santa Nella. The high spot of the evening was eating at a faux Danish windmill called “Pea Soup Andersons”, a restaurant serving pea soup with everything.
They are very proud of their cuisine that they have a very active web page here http://www.peasoupandersens.net/. It certainly provided a different dinning experience.
posted by Travellers @ 4:48 pm
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