Vajentic Family Western Odyssey: Week 2, Day 11 (Tuesday, July 23)
Not surprisingly, given our busy day and late night the day before, we slept in on Tuesday! I hate to waste vacation time sleeping, but if you have to do it, you might as well do it at a nice cabin in the woods in one of America's most beautiful national parks. We wanted to see the famous Yosemite Valley and get our national parks passports stamped at the visitor center, so after poking around the lodge during the morning, we loaded up in the car and headed south around 1 PM, after dropping a few postcards in the mail. It was around a 45 minute drive through more beautiful scenery to get to the valley. We stopped at one of the parks leading into the valley so that we could walk up to the Merced River. Standing there on the bank, I was reminded of an antidote I read about John Muir. Some 19th century tourist came up to Muir and told him that he only had an hour in the park, and asked if Muir could recommend what he should do with his limited time. ...