Friday, July 6, 2012

Day 46 - Tuolomne Meadows Campground


Tuolomne (too-ALL-uh-mee) Meadows is the east side of Yosemite.  They have a campground that is half reservable (and was booked full till August 15 when we checked in May!) and half first come!  I called yesterday and talked to a guy who said they had a bunch of spots opening up today (Sunday, July 1, our anniversary).  So we left around 8:00 and got there around 8:30 and got ourselves a site!  I’m so relieved.  I really wanted to stay in this park.

Then we did nothing, really nothing.  Driving to our site over the crazy-narrow and bumpy road was a feat in itself.  Then we set up camp.  The girls were in play dream-land with all the nature around us.  Brad took a nap.  I organized the bear box and read and dozed in my camp chair in the sun.  In 75 degree temps.  Oh yes.  We are at 8,000 ft.  Nice cool weather.  We hear it’s hot back in Nashville with temps over 100.

We drove the Tuolomne Meadows “strip” and went to the visitor’s center to get the scoop on hiking and on the Valley.  Then we went back to Lee Vining (the town where we stayed the night before) and bought a few groceries – the prices were outrageous!! – and let Audra take a shower.

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