The day we drove six hours

Today I was woken up by being draged across the room and hearing my dad say “can someone turn on the shower, I need to wake ellie up.” And that’s when I desided to wake up. Then we packed up our room. After that we hit the road for our 6 hour drive to Yosemite. […]

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Driving 5 hours to Yosemite

This morning I woke up when I found my dad dragging Ellie out of her bed. We quickly got ready for the day. My parents picked up some coffee and we were on the road. Unfortunately, Tioga Pass is still closed so we had to take the long way. Instead we had to take Sonora […]

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Day 12: Lee Vining to Yosemite

We woke up about 30 miles from our destination of Yosemite. Over five hours later we arrived. Tioga Pass is still closed and we had to drive the loooong way all the way around the park to get to it. It was one of those super steep roads, one said “25%” with an illustration of […]

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Anticipation

We can never know about the days to come But we think about them anyway – Carly Simon Since we need to plan our trips over a year ahead of time there is no way to take weather into account. There’s almost no way to take climate into account! As I’ve mentioned the Western US […]

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