We finally made it to Yosemite Valley. This year is not the year to come to this park in a RV. The long route via 140 is a two hour canyon ride that restricts vehicles over 45' in length. The south route via 41 is currently under construction for 10 miles with your stimulus money funding this construction. These 10 miles take an eternity to travel in a RV as it is an unpaved gravel road at this point. It is dusty, bumpy and inches from going over the side of a mountain. But once you complete this trek of 40 miles you arrive in Yosemite Valley. Let's just say my attitude upon arrival was less than desirable. It didn't improve much either when we ran into half of California and trying to find a parking space for the Magic Bus. I think this would be a really cool place if the people weren't here, LOL.
We parked the bus in the back of a parking lot next to a maintenance yard that had several no parking signs. "Detour, Oh these bitter things I find, Should have read that detour sign." We immediately hopped on the first bus we see, now that we are old pros at riding park shuttle buses. We jumped off at the visitor center to find only about 10,000 people meandering around with the same lost face that we had. We grabbed a 23 minute movie at the theatre on the Spirit of Yosemite.
From there we were told to go to Yosemite Falls and take any bus pointed that way (park ranger pointing in some direction) and get off stop 6. We were at stop 5 so how hard could this be for a veteran bus rider like myself. Well eagle eyes (that would be me) spots a bus headed in the proper direction. Does it get off at stop 6, no it goes to P1 which would be parking. Only about a 20 minute delay. But we finally got to stop 6 and Yosemite Falls. I'll post pictures separately since I have not figured out this whole blog thing yet.
Yosemite Falls is the highest waterfall in North America but the amount of water actually falling depends on snowfall melt and rain. The lower falls had all these boulders that Tonto thought would be cool to walk up to the falls on as did numerous others. On the way out we did capture sightings of El Capitan.
Our next stop was the San Jose area and San Francisco. I'll write on those adventures soon. God Bless, Art.
We parked the bus in the back of a parking lot next to a maintenance yard that had several no parking signs. "Detour, Oh these bitter things I find, Should have read that detour sign." We immediately hopped on the first bus we see, now that we are old pros at riding park shuttle buses. We jumped off at the visitor center to find only about 10,000 people meandering around with the same lost face that we had. We grabbed a 23 minute movie at the theatre on the Spirit of Yosemite.
From there we were told to go to Yosemite Falls and take any bus pointed that way (park ranger pointing in some direction) and get off stop 6. We were at stop 5 so how hard could this be for a veteran bus rider like myself. Well eagle eyes (that would be me) spots a bus headed in the proper direction. Does it get off at stop 6, no it goes to P1 which would be parking. Only about a 20 minute delay. But we finally got to stop 6 and Yosemite Falls. I'll post pictures separately since I have not figured out this whole blog thing yet.
Yosemite Falls is the highest waterfall in North America but the amount of water actually falling depends on snowfall melt and rain. The lower falls had all these boulders that Tonto thought would be cool to walk up to the falls on as did numerous others. On the way out we did capture sightings of El Capitan.
Our next stop was the San Jose area and San Francisco. I'll write on those adventures soon. God Bless, Art.
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