Saturday, 8 December 2012
Cheap Car Rental France - My First Look at Yosemite National Park
It turns out that they were starting their California tour at Lake Tahoe and we bought two tickets on Ebay and away we went. My wife had her laptop with her and she started to research where we could go to see them. My wife and I are big Eagles fans (the music group) and we were watching TV one night when a commercial for the group came on. That day actually came about by accident. Looking at the beautiful pictures and dreaming of the day when I would be able to visit the park, i can remember even thinking about it when I was a young child. I had waiting most of my life to get out west and enjoy the scenery.
I was pleasantly surprised. I grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania so my idea of what a mountain looked like was much smaller than what I was seeing now. When we got close I started to get really excited because I had never seen anything like this before. Loaded up the car and drove down to see Yosemite, so we took a day, while we were out there I started looking at maps and noticed that Yosemite was only a few hours drive away.
I have to admit that I enjoyed the first part of the drive much more than being in the valley, but by that time of the day it was really crowded and very hot. Such as Half Dome and El Capitan, eventually we made it into the valley and enjoyed seeing some of the sights. I especially enjoyed some of the lakes with the huge rocky mountains in the background. There were so many different things to see that it was hard to take it all in. It was so peaceful and beautiful that I had a huge smile on my face for the entire drive. We went in through the high end and traveled down that road to get to the valley, we didn't go in through the main part of the park.
It's a trip that you will always remember. Try to do the valley early because it can get quite hot and then drive through the high country to enjoy some of the scenery that is off the beaten path. If you are planning on going out to see Yosemite then I would recommend that you do your planning in advance.
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