We left our hotel, stopped for some groceries and coffee, and headed out toward Yosemite. Western Nevada is pretty sparce so we had to get creative with entertainment in the van. Albert was pretty good at staying busy.
It was amazing how desolate our path was. Here we stopped at a diner/gas station in a tiny town. It was the best looking gas station we had seen in at least 100 miles. We bought everyone a a special treat along the way. Then we turned and ended up on the weirdest road I've seen. This stretch of highway was a bit like a rollercoaster. There were miles of these little hills; actually they were too small to be called hills but were bigger than bumps. Whatever you called them, they were interesting. We couldn't go highway speeds and you would have been nervous on them if you had a vehicle with a trailer. It was certainly an adventure!
We entered Yosemite from the east. We had to drive over a gorgeous mountain pass to get there and it was definitely worth it. It was also pretty great to go from 100 Degrees in Las Vegas to patches of snow at Tioga Pass.
We drove from the east entrance to our campsite and saw the entire width of Yosemite in the process. Our campsite was pretty awesome. Check out this pinecone Addilyn found!
Once we got to our site, I worked on dinner and Tyler and the kids worked on setting up our tent.
The first night in Yosemite we had burgers.
After dinner, we feasted on roasted marshmallows. Yum!
Behind us is our campsite, complete with bear-proof container. Since Yosemite has bears, you are not supposed to leave food anywhere but in these bear-proof boxes. If you leave food in your cars, they might break in just to get it. Craziness!
The park rangers had just gone through and cleared all of the brush from the camp grounds so there was ample firewood around our site. Whenever we needed to get the fire going quickly, we would throw some of the pine brush on and it would smell like a pine tree air freshener for a while. Burn, burn!
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