Whats been happening

Saturday and Sunday were spent in Tulare for the sprint car races.  Saturday was spent doing laundry and normal house hold stuff.  Saturday night it was off to the races.  Wing and non-wing sprint cars and IMCA modifies.  We had a lot of fun and the racing was excellent.
We went for groceries Sunday morning then it was off to Yosemite.  Yosemite is one of our favorite places to.  We spent our honeymoon there 38 years ago, so this was kind of a nostalgia trip. We can't believe how much it has changed, we didn't recognize any of the places we stayed or ate at 38 years ago, they call this progress!  We were staying at Yosemite Pines RV Resort.
It was very sad driving into the Valley the first day, you could see all the devastation last years fire on the west side of Yosemite.  It was so sad to see so much beauty gone.  Hopefully it will come back in time.The first day we drove around and got our bearings then stopped to hike up to the upper Yosemite falls.  This isn't a really long trail but it is steep in places.  I turned around at the half way point and Joe continued on.

 I hopped the shuttle back to the village and waited for Joe.  I gave him an hour then he was suppose to turn around and come back.  HA HA HA, like I expected that to happen.  I got to the village before 3 and he finally showed up at 4:30 and of course had an amazing tale to tell.  I seems someone stretched a rope across the falls and people were tight rope walking.

Tues was cloudy and rainy and apparently snowing in the high country.  Tioga Pass was open on Monday but closed by Wednesday morning.  It was still closed on Thursday.  Because the weather was not conducive to outdoor activities we decided to go for a drive to Jamestown.  This is another place we enjoyed riding the motorcycle to.
 But alas it didn't seem the same, maybe because we weren't on the bike. We continued on hwy 108 to Pinecrest where the road beyond was closed due to weather. On the way back Joe decided to take this little back road the would cut our distance in half.  We started at Wards Ferry Rd in Tuolumne  and came out at Deer Flat Rd in Groveland.  What a spectacular, scary road this was.  It is narrow and one lane, you pray no one is coming up the other side.  Very high drop offs and no guard rail. At one point Joe was looking over the edge and thought he saw a whole in the bridge way below us.  It turned out to be a parked car.  This bridge is covered in graffiti.  It is pretty interesting, I can't imagine driving all the way down there to draw on the bridge.

We did meet another car when we were going up the other side.  Joe had to back down to a small pull out so the cars could get by.  Not a road for the faint at heart!!!!!!







I will be adding more photo's to my photo page soon!