Page head image

Viewing posts tagged travel

Califorina 2009: Yosemite Nat'l Park

We got up almost early, had breakfast and drove to Yosemite National Park. The weather was great again, far less snow and ice on the roads to the park than last year, and only some sorry rests of snow in the park itself. First stop was the Yosemite Valley Panorama Point. Perhaps a bit early, as the Bridal Veil Fall was in the shadow.

California 2009: Knights Ferry Bridge

We checked out late in the morning and headed for Yosemite. Since driving from San Jose to Yosemite Nat'l Park takes too long to actually do something reasonable in the park, we took some time to visit the Knights Ferry Bridge. It is one of the few remaining covered wooden bridges in the US and really worth the stop.

How not to travel the desert

Convoy Rescued After GPS Led to Utah Cliff

Wearing a Transformers T-shirt considered offensive at Heathrow?

If the story that supposedly happened to Brad Jayakody is true, and according to a spokesman of Heathrow Airport it well could be, then there is another good reason for not flying via Heathrow. I'd rather even fly via Paris CDG.

Roadtrip 2008, Day 18 and 19

On the final day on the road we went to a mall North of Sacramento and finally found some jeans in the right sizes at Sears. However, we weren't able to get out of the parking space with the RV and had to wait two hours for the owner of the car in the spot left from us.

Roadtrip 2008, Day 17

Sacramento, a city (actually, two cities) along the Sacramento and American river, is the capital of the state of California.

Roadtrip 2008, Day 16

Yosemite Nat'l Park. What a sight!

Roadtrip 2008, Day 15

We went a bit shopping in Vegas again and took off to Death Valley. It was quite windy on the way to the valley. As I feared strong cross winds on the pass, we didn't take the West exit of the park but drove to Beatty instead and took the loop around the park to get to Mojave. My mother was quite PO that it took so long and that we were driving in the dark again, and that my father was driving too long without a break, but one reason we avoided the pass was her fright of narrow mountain streets... We arrived at half past ten, which wasn't that late after all.