Up and have breakfast at the Best Western High Sierra where we were staying the night.
Load the car up and head off up the road to Yosemite. It’s about 30 mins to Lee Vinnings where you turn up Hwy 120 over and over Tioga Pass.
About 12 miles up the road you stop and pay your fee and you notice how high you are. Nearly 10000ft. This is the highest I’ve ever driven before.
Driving along and stopping for photos and to see the sights.
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| Road up to Tioga Pass |
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| Up at Ellery Lake |
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| Ellery Lake |
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| Ellery Lake |
About 12 miles up the road you stop and pay your fee and you notice how high you are. Nearly 10000ft. This is the highest I’ve ever driven before.
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| Pay Point |
Stop at Tuolumne Meadows for a walk and to grab a drink from the shop.
Back in the car to drive the rest of the pass. It takes a while due to all the photo stops!!
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| Tuolumne River |
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| Lambert Dome |
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| Tuolumne Meadows |
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| Yosemite. |
Back in the car to drive the rest of the pass. It takes a while due to all the photo stops!!
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| Climbing the rocks. |
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| Spot The Climbers? |
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| Tenaya Lake. |
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| More climbers. |
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| Half Dome from Olmsted Point |
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| Olmsted Point View. |
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| Redwoods at Tuolumne Grove. |
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| Look-out Bear!! |
Have to say the scenery was stunning and after driving the bareness of Death Valley the day before it was great to see so much green.
The valley was very busy, so we don’t go on the loop, we’ll do that on out next trip here.
Now, Sally Sat-Nav has performed with no hitches until now. Driving down the road it suddenly tells us to take the next exit. Driving through what only can be described as scenes from Deliverance we start to doubt we are on the right road. Denise consults the map and yes she could be taking us on a short cut. Oh, but no. When we reach the highway again she sends us back up the road 10 miles to where we would have arrived 15 min earlier. A few swear word aimed at Sally!!!
Onto Oakdale where we stopped for lunch. Driving out of town we see a few roadside fruit shops, so we stop at Denise’s Farmers Market to buy some fruit.
Suitably stocked up on grapes, strawberries and nectarines we continue onto San Francisco.
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| Fruit Market. |
Suitably stocked up on grapes, strawberries and nectarines we continue onto San Francisco.
Sally Sat-Nav takes her second mishap of the day and takes up off the freeway only to re-join 3 blocks down the road! She’s getting rebooted when we get home as punishment!!
It’s nearly an hours wait to get onto the Oakland bridge. Not a happy chappie as our lane was for cash and when we get closer, find it’s closed and have to get into a new lane!
Arrive at the Donatello where we are staying and check in.
Get all the luggage brought up to our room where the first thing we do is to unpack every bag and put our clothes in the hotel drawers and cupboards. Repack all the gifts and shopping we have bought into a sensible order and go off out for tea.
We end up at the Westfield Shopping Centre. Pasta for Meg and Korean for Denise and I.
Take in a few more shops, buy some milk and head back to our hotel for a nice cuppa and to relax.
Nighty, night.
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