We then continued to Yosemite national park - the mountains here are spectacular. We stopped at Olmsted Point, named after the guy who designed Central Park - i thought i recognised the name from when we studied it at uni. Our second stop was Tunnel Point or also called Inspiration Point - from here you could see a stunning view of Mount El Capitan which is famous for climbing - apparently the fastest climb time was 2.49 hours! That is crazily quick - it takes me like an hour to get up 5m! The slowest were a French group taking 2 and a half months but apparently they just did it to get into the Guinness Book of Records. The view was amazing, like you were looking at a picture.
The visitors centre at Yosemite was a completely different picture to the places we had already stopped - Japanese tourists everywhere! At one point Sarah turned around and couldn't find me as i was lost in a sea of Japanese! But as our charismatic driver Ron said ' that is why God gave us elbows - to get them out of the way as they hunt in packs!' He doesn't say much Ron but when he does it is very funny. Bear watch update - still 0 but squirrel watch was 10+. They were everywhere.
Tonight we are staying in Modesto - meaning modest in Spanish - turns out this is the home town of George Lucas! We went for a delicious meal, i had the Thai chicken mmmmmm, and the waitress gave us our desert for free as she forgot about us! Awesome! Though for the life of me i couldn't remember what cilantro was - remember now its coriander! Anyway turns out they have MSNBC on the TV here which has Lock Up on all night - brilliant, easy watching before the 6am wake up call tomorrow! Bear watch - still 0.
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