West to East California

So today has been a great day, starting off by joining in the festivities of the day-after-the-wedding, with a pool party and taco van this afternoon at the house near Healdsburg, Sonoma. Lovely setting and we were sad to have to leave, but we hit the road again at 2pm for our drive to Yosemite.

We were doing well until we were about 1.5 hours into the trip where we came across a long line of stationary traffic, which we realised turned out to be because of a bridge that had been opened to let a boat pass. We were there for over an hour, which kind of messed up the schedule - Route 12 between Rio Vista and Stockton is one to plan around if you are ever taking the trip!

So anyway we carried on and were amazed by the scenery we came across the closer we got to Yosemite. The colours of the fields, amazing Lake Tulloch and winding roads cut into the mountains looked more like Tuscany than California and made us excited for the trip ahead.

We arrived at Yosemite Pines campground in time to put the tent up and cook up a great meal of Trecker caught Salmon from Joe, pasta and salad, all cooked up on Sherrie's new camping stove, then hit the tent with the roof open to watch the stars overhead before dozing off for a well-earned sleep!

Our gourmet meal - Salmon, pasta and salad, mmmm....

there are more pictures to see on the photo gallery page too...