Not Yosemite

The drive down along the Sierra Nevada range was one of the most spectacular drives ever, serias! We must have stopped every 10 minutes to take photos of the snow covered mountains. Looking back, they are all extremely similar. You know, 'same same, but different'. All this stopping added many hours onto our drive to Yosemite Nat. park. We also took some bad turns down roads that they said were closed for the season but we thought we'd take a chance anyway, stupid idea Dieter.

Well every road into Yosemite was closed for the winter, so all these fantastic ideas about seeing the ancient giant sequoia trees, waterfalls, deep valleys, grand meadows and vast wilderness areas went up in smoke, or buried beneath the snow that was covering the roads into it. We were bummed because this was meant to be one of the highlights of California, but still riding on a high after our trip to Tahoe, so we sucked it up and drove as far as we could by nightfall so we could try get Vegas the next day. KA CHING!

After much deliberation we chose this really cool little motel in Bishops because truthfully we were afraid of the wind in our aging tent. Behind the desk of this place was this really cooky manger who was either super smashed and stoned or a little mentally retarded but either way she was really friendly and gave us a discount on our room. After she told us that John Wayne used to stay at that motel when he passed through that area, she attempted to do a South African accent for about five minutes which was absolutely horrendous and left me laughing embarrassingly on the outside and uncontrollably inside. Maybe I needed a few more glasses of vino...What a loon.


Great news for all of you is that we saw yet another smashing sunset over the mountains in Bishops, sunset picture 652. I know you are all looking forward to seeing all 10k pics so far.