Tuesday we stayed put and I washed the truck. Today we went to Yosemite to see the Giant Sequoias trees but the road was closed because of the winter snow but we could walk 2 miles in the snow to see them if we wanted. We decided to divert to plan B and go to Yosemite Valley. The park is big, once you enter the south gate it's another 30 miles of very twisty and mountainous roads that takes over an hour to travel. It's a very pretty drive through billions of trees. You get an idea of what's ahead as you get close but there's a long dark tunnel you go through and when you come out....wham....there it is. Yosemite is a long treed flat bottomed valley with huge granite cliffs and mountains on either side. On the right there is Bridal Vail Falls, on the left is El Capitan and well down the center of the valley is Half Dome. You can't see any of the roads or park buildings in the valley because of the trees until you drive down into the valley. Judy and I agree that this is the most outstanding place we have visited since we started our adventure. You'll see the same shot twice but one had the morning sun while the other was the afternoon sun.
