Yosemite

We were lucky enough to get to Yosemite National Park on Friday, May 26, just prior to the busy Memorial Day weekend. The weather was a refreshing change from Mojave’s 100+ heat --- sunny and only in the 60’s. We drove to Glacier Point which overlooks the Yosemite Valley and still saw snow along the road in the woods. As with Sequoia National Park, the pictures of Yosemite speak for themselves.








After touring Yosemite, we drove westward to Vallejo for the night. Since it was the beginning of a holiday weekend, we witnessed lines of traffic heading in the opposite direction on Friday afternoon --- more traffic than we ever remember seeing on the east coast. As crowded as I-91 northbound out of Connecticut ever seemed on Columbus Day weekend, it can’t compare to the 2-3 hours of bumper-to-bumper traffic heading out of the San Francisco area towards the national parks.