The California sign was a little hard to see, so I didn't actually get a picture of it. Just going too fast and I think I accidentally put my finger over the camera. Brilliant, right? Alain gave me a hard time about that, but it happens when I try to rush things.
So, we entered California through National Forest that borders Yosemite National Park. We drove past a beautiful lake called Mono Lake and then found a true "Roller Coaster Road" on the way into the Park. This road was amazing and incredibly scary at the same time. The bumps were huge and you literally could not see the bottom of the road on the other side of the bump. The kids were in heaven, but I felt like we were going to lose our front bumper any minute and flip over! Alain had no worries and just found it to be a great distraction for our kids who were very tired of being in the car. This was our longest travel day thus far at 10 hours. We've been trying to keep it to 8 hours at the most.
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Mono Lake |
We entered Yosemite from the East end of the Park it was unbelievably beautiful. The East end of the Park (called the "High Country") is high altitude and averages at 10,000 feet on the roadway (Tioga Pass), so there were beautiful trees, snow covered mountains and amazing alpine lakes! The road took over 2 hours to drive to get to the West entrance. We were not expecting it to take that long, but the winding mountain roads at low speeds were slow traveling. It's not like you want to rush through one of the most beautiful National Parks in existence anyway. So, we did our best to keep the kids entertained and finally made it to Jocelyne and Jim's house around 6:30pm. They had dinner shortly after we arrived and the kids were so happy to see their aunts and uncles that they didn't even remember how hungry they were.
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