{"id":1810,"date":"2009-06-07T00:27:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T04:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2009-08-03T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T17:14:47","slug":"the-journey-to-yosemite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=1810","title":{"rendered":"The Journey to Yosemite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I knew I should have went to sleep early on Thursday, I didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 Instead, I kept working.\u00a0 Then I started to pack.\u00a0 Then it was so late that I never did get to sleep.\u00a0 Instead, at about 3:40 a.m., Rich and I headed for the airport.\u00a0 Our flight left at 7 a.m. to San Francisco.\u00a0 We then picked up a rental SUV and began our trek to Tenaya Lodge in Fish Camp, California, a small town 2 miles south of Yosemite National Park.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1812\" title=\"yosem-d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yosem-d.jpg\" alt=\"yosem-d\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yosem-d.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yosem-d-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The view while driving out of San Francisco on the Bay Bridge.\u00a0 For years I&#8217;ve taken pictures of the bridge from the San Francisco side; this is my first time driving on it (DH was driving).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1816\" title=\"yosem-s\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yosem-s.jpg\" alt=\"yosem-s\" width=\"450\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yosem-s.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yosem-s-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1818\" title=\"yose-e\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yose-e.jpg\" alt=\"yose-e\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yose-e.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yose-e-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1820\" title=\"yosem-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yosem-2.jpg\" alt=\"yosem-2\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yosem-2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yosem-2-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the drive.\u00a0\u00a0 Eventually we arrived at the Tenaya Lodge.\u00a0 Beautiful place.\u00a0 Love it.\u00a0 We have a lovely &#8220;junior suite.&#8221;\u00a0 I highly recommend this place. Yes, you will need to do a lot of driving in the park.\u00a0 While the lodge is only two miles from the south entrance, it&#8217;s another 36 to Yosemite Valley.\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t sound like much, but figure very twisty roads and a 35 mph speed limit.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t mind the drive, this place is great.\u00a0 I do wish they had free wi-fi though.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1823\" title=\"yosem-4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yosem-4.jpg\" alt=\"yosem-4\" width=\"350\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yosem-4.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yosem-4-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As soon as we drove past what sounded like running water, we pulled over.\u00a0 The first of many waterfalls!\u00a0 We stayed here for a while, just listening to the rushing water.\u00a0 Very peaceful.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1827\" title=\"yosemite-4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yosemite-4.jpg\" alt=\"yosemite-4\" width=\"320\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yosemite-4.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yosemite-4-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself posting this picture.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve more photos and stories coming, including\u00a0 from Glacier Point and the Ansel Adams Gallery.\u00a0 Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I knew I should have went to sleep early on Thursday, I didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 Instead, I kept working.\u00a0 Then I started to pack.\u00a0 Then it was so late that I never did get to sleep.\u00a0 Instead, at about 3:40 a.m., Rich and I headed for the airport.\u00a0 Our flight left at 7 a.m. to San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-personal","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}