Goodbye to Yosemite

We did a lot of hiking in Yosemite and constantly met interesting people.  Last night at our camp we invited a couple walking their dogs over to our coach and we had a glass of wine and shared stories.  They are from the U.K., are traveling all over the U.S. for a year, and had a dog that looked exactly like our Sooner.  We gave him the butt rub and made the same gestures Sooner did.  This is Gabby and me at Mirror Lake (see below).

This is Mirror Lake in Yosemite, you can see why it was named that way.  We walked around it and took a lot of great pictures.

Yosemite consists of 1,200 square miles and is not for people looking for McDonald's and a video store.  You have to be quiet and enjoy the sights, sounds, and smells of the park.  Here is a mountain river we sat next to on the way back from Mirror Lake.  Those big boulders in the river are part of a major rockfall that occurred in the area of the river (just below Half Dome) in 2009.  To give you and idea of size they are taller than a person.  Some of the trail around Mirror Lake was still closed because of this rockfall and boulders this size and larger litter the area.. 

This afternoon we arrived in Three Rivers along side a beautiful lake, three convergent rivers, and just eight miles away is Sequoia National Park.  Our motor home is parked facing a roaring river (for those who don't know, a 35-foot motor home has a huge windshield like a Greyhound bus).  We start another week of adventures.  We are all healthy and really enjoying all the things our great national park system offers.