And...oh what a day...

hi everyone,

Yep 2 posts today...lucky you LOL  (sorry having photo size problems, some loading good, other HUGE)  BUT.....

Oh what a day!

Not the best of days.

We left Vegas only to realise we needed gas and we had already headed out into the desert.  Neil was unfazed I on the other hand was in full panic mode. However we got some gas at Indian Springs and headed through the desert lands for hours and hours.  We were on our way to Yosemite, with the intention of seeing the waterfalls there, one is meant to be the 4^th biggest in the world.

Before we entered the park we stopped at the visitor centre at Mono Lake, asking questions. And yes, you guessed right this is where things began to go downhill.

You pay once you enter the park - $20.00 per car.  The info guy said it was well sign posted – not.  Te info guy said you can see the waterfalls from the road – no no no!

IT was beautiful in there.  Large boulders with trees basically growing out of them.   Then it changed to forest and then to massive bare rocks towering skyward.  A waterfall?  Nope.

The signage in the park was useless.  The park is a through road in that it has multiple exits, but nothing said waterfall and when we found the Yosemite village the information office was closed.  The place was loaded with cars, people etc, and apparently you had to take a shuttle bus to see the waterfalls.  We weren’t told this. Also that there is quite a walk – again we weren’t told about this.  So zero marks for Yosemite sadly.  We’ve been to lots of national parks in our journey this time and everything has always been great.  Sadly Yosemite bombed out.  The scenery was excellent, but the information and the reality was the opposite.  I decided that on the way out I would make a complaint and at the exit of the park – some 30 minutes of driving later – I met up with a park ranger and she was quite upset that we had such a bad experience. 

It got a tad worse.  We had to drive for an hour to get out of the park /forest area and drive one horrendous switch back road – scary – then we couldn’t find any accommodation – where were all the motels like  the rest of our stay?  Oh well, we finally made it to Ripon – near Merced?  And we’re in a lovely motel, with lovely staff and have had a great dinner at Carls Jr – a fast food place, but very delicious salad and Neil had a burger with ‘real’ meat!

So a nice end to an ‘oh what a day’.