I've not been good at all updating my blog with the travels of Liz and I. The fact is, we've been pretty busy trying to experience all there is to do here. Part of the "problem" is we are staying outside of the park about an hour away in Mariposa, Ca., a nice little tourist town where the food portions are plentiful, but the taste is fair. (I did have a really good chicken burrito today-at Taco Bell). So, we're finding we don't have a whole lot of time to surf the web or update what's going on. And, I'm doing my best to stay on east coast time, so I've been hitting the pillow by 8:30-9:00 pm, and getting up around 5:00 am.

I think Yosemite National Park is now my favorite national park among the ones I've been too. This is a photographers paradise, and having two or three days here will not be enough. I'm hoping to bring Dawn here, and it would be great to see Yosemite in the Spring when the water falls are really running. I already have three to four hundred photos and I don't know where to start editing, but thank heaven for digital!

Here are a few other highlights:

1. So far, we've met people from Denmark, Wisconsin, Indiana, & Washington.

2. As Liz and I hiked among the giant Sequoiass, we briefly talked to a homeschooling mom and daughter who, due to the husband being laid off from his construction job, are taking 4 months off to see many of the National Parks throughout the whole western part of the U.S.

3. While taking the park bus to get our car (1/2 hour drive), the bus driver had a man who had his rescue dog with him, talk about what he does and how he trained his dog. Made the bus ride shorter and gave Liz some occupational ideas.

4. No pictures can do justice to Yosemite-you just have to come here to be awed by grandeur of the canyon walls.

5. Saw a real life search and rescue helicopter deliver a patient to a waiting ambulance...see my previous post.