The Let Down

We left Nevada early to get into Yosemite National Park for the first come first serve camp sites.

Driving through the mountains into the valleys was rough. Tight corners, ups and downs the whole way. The snowy peaks of the Sierra Nevada didn't make me feel to great about camping that night. As we slowly made our way closer and closer to the park, only to find out that the first pass into it was closed. My guess was snow and ice but we didn't ask any questions. We figured we would keep heading north, either we would hit another pass on the east side of the park or head around the the west side.

All the passes were closed, we were all pretty bummed. Yosemite is one park that is very untouched by man, and one of the most beautiful. But that was just one closed park, we still have many more to hit up.

We continued up to Lake Tahoe, which had a ton of snow. People were digging cars and houses out of the deep snow, it was nuts. We left Mass in humid hot crappy weather, now we are in the mountains and its snowing.

We slowly but surely made our way out of the mountains on our way to San Fransisco. The drop in elevations was brutal on my ears, it was just intense. California traffic was a bit crazy, not as bad as Vegas, but pretty crazy. It was nice being out of the mountains and into the city. As we got closer to San Fransisco the traffic got heavier.

Moving on through the suburbs we decided to look for a camp ground to set up base camp and explore the city. Things didn't really fall into place though. The first camp ground we found was more then we wanted to pay to be cramped and drag our stuff down a trail. So we moved on. We figured we would head north up the 1 a little. The 1 it turns our is sharp switch backs, that people in BMWs just fly up. We continued pushing our trusty mini van up these hills for several miles. We finally found a camp ground and it ended up being full. We back tracked into the city to just look for a Walmart to pass out in, well the parking lot at least. Turns out, the San Fransisco area is very complicated and likes to hide it's Walmarts...

We found a Target after about 2 hours, but moved on deeper into the city for a possible hotel. All the hotels were either full or had ridiculous prices. We settled on trying to find the Walmart...again. We finally found it! We were so over tired everything was just funny to us. We were restless and I for one had no real interest in staying in a parking lot.

After much talking we decided to just skip past San Fransisco. At this point we saw the Golden Gate Bridge and just wanted to move on. Our rough destination, was somewhere up near the Redwoods. We made it about halfway there, before we crashed in a parking lot next to a Super 8.

Worst idea ever....

Mychildren Mybride- On Wings of Integrity