Tuesday 21st August 2012

Another free breakfast down it was time to check out. Straight to Hertz through the rough part of town to pick up our Chevrolet Cruze, was good until the jerk woman in her Mustang tooted us for no reason, jerk.

On to Oakland, what a rough town that looks. At least all we needed to do was head to the nearest Walmart to get some supplies, was disappointed not to see anyone fit for peopleofwalmart.com but thems the breaks. $80 got us all the food & camping supplies we needed for a trip to Yosemite.

Stevie got behind the wheel as we headed for Crane Flat, she’s a bloody windy trip up through parts unknown, then heading up the steep incline until you head into Yosemite.

We set up camp in Crane Flat at site 208 and went for a stroll to check out the lay of the land, our walk back had kids screaming and running everywhere so we went down to check out the bear wandering through the grass, it was far enough away, just keep your distance bear. We met some bloke from Louisianna, gave us his life story and we headed back to camp. 

Tent went up a treat, not bad for $22. Sleeping straight on the ground has done wonders for my back, don’t think I can go back to my office chair.

Wednesday 22nd August 2012

Thought i’d try my hand at hitting the right side of the road. No problems here. Headed into the Yosemite Valley.

Here’s a couple of tips:

• Get there early. We got there about 8:30am, parking spot right next to the gate.
• Take plenty of water. It gets bloody hot around Midday onwards, plenty of places to fill up your bottle around the place.
• Grab yourself a bike. I don’t think we went half an hour without saying “gee the bikes were a bloody good idea”