09 Awaiting Yosemite - 2022

Vacation 2022

Awaiting Yosemite

Things were looking pretty good as far as our somewhat flexible schedule went. Since Yosemite is one of the busiest national parks, we had planned to be here for our visit on a weekday and before Memorial Day so that many families wouldn’t be on vacation yet. This would permit us to visit when the park was far from maximum people capacity.

Also, many of the national parks require reservations to enter. Yosemite is one of them. However, because of the distance we had to travel to visit Yosemite and the other stops we had planned, we were not sure exactly when we would be here. So we were going to purchase our reservations when we got close. You don’t get much closer than a couple of mile outside of the Northwest gate. We arrived late and decided that we would sleep in today and then get our reservations tomorrow.

Once we got going today, we started on our journey of information gathering. We pursued and received information from a park ranger. He indicated that reservations are not needed for entry so long as you enter the park before 6am and after 4pm. A quick pow-wow with Dad and we decided to just take it easy today, get to bed early and get in the park early in the morning. So that’s what we did.

Today’s video is a short one of just driving around checking out the local scenery and such.

May 24, 2022

Start – We got into “The Pines” campground, operated by the BLM, late last evening. We decided to sleep in and take it easy today. But we were rudely awakened.

1:47 – Let’s take a drive.

10:29 – Checking out the “Lost Claim” BLM campground.

29:26 – Back home again… Well, back at the campground again.