Yosemite - Part two: This is AMAZING!

Sometimes I forget how many stars are in the sky until I get out and away from civilization, relax and look up. Chilling around the campfire with an adult beverage in hand and roasting hotdogs on the fire (classic!!) and I can feel my muscles starting to finally relax. Take a deep breath, lean back and look up and I can't even make out constellations I recognize with the amount of stars now visible to my eyes now that I'm outside the cities and light pollution. The Milky Way is sprawling across the openness above me and I just feel a sense of peace. Which is saying something in todays' world full of heartbreaking news and non-stop, fast paced life. 

Our first view of Half Dome and Yosemite Valley around sunset before finding our campsite at Bridalveil Creek.

**Side Note: Please understand I'm not spending time editing pictures and uploading the dozens of pictures off our cameras. currently what you're getting is what we've taken on our phones. We'll post a bunch once we have some time in between legs of our trip or maybe not till the end. Thanks for being patient and understanding I really want to be present where I am and enjoy my time with Geoff** 

Yosemite - Part one: Getting There and Slowing Down

After a few more laughs and a fond farewell we took off from Kevin and Rita's place high on the hills in Oakland and headed across the Bay Bridge and into San Francisco again. This time in the van and Geoff at the helm. (Still trying to find the right name for her. Anita? Parker? Beulah? Annie? I dunno...) We had unfinished business with the Golden Gate Bridge. The drive over was stellar, the sun was out and barely a cloud in the sky. By the time we got to the Golden Gate Bridge, the fog had rolled in and you could barely see the bridge standing right next to it. Sooooo, I STILL didn't get my pictures I wanted but we DID drive across the bridge in our awesome home on wheels. After crossing the famous bridge and bay we couldn't see, we set our sights on Yosemite National Park. What better way to spend the 4th of July than seeing a few of America's most iconic manmade and natural sites!

Driving across the Golden Gate Bridge. Slightly Foggy... Classic.