We made it!! We�re officially on the left coast. We made San Francisco at about 9:30 PM and what a journey. We left Bishop, CA and took 395 to Route 120 West into Yosemite National Park. Wow -- how magnificent Yosemite is! Of all the parks we�ve visited so far this one was the most interesting I think. The combination of temperatures, colors, landscape and scenery was just amazing. There were gray, tan, green, brown and white mountains, small waterfalls just shooting out of the sides of the rocks, huge lakes with sand on the shores, ice capped mountains on one side and tree-covered mountains on the other, valleys of huge boulders and dying trees, patches of snow on the side of the road, wild flowers blooming everywhere including lilac that smelled heavenly, and when we got to the bottom of Yosemite Valley there was the largest waterfall I have ever seen up close. We climbed over the rocks in the rapids to get some amazing shots of this. I don�t have the words to justly describe the magnificence of this park so I hope the pictures suffice.
We stayed on the 120 out of the park twisting and turning the whole way. We stopped to gas up and met 2 crotch rocket guys from Maryland. As we chatted with them we learned they were doing the �Homebrew Tour� coast to coast making our 19-day journey in just 3 days! Suddenly my ass felt much better. They told us they were averaging about 1050 a day. I can hardly imagine.
We continued on our way and navigated through Oakland and San Francisco in the dark. We�re getting pretty good at that. We made it safely to the hotel at Fishermen�s Wharf 335 miles later, grabbed some pizza and beer and packed it in for the night.
My nails are a mess and my hair tired of being tied back
No time to whine
Because that man of mine keeps saying �c�mon � we�ve got bikes to pack
