How The West Was Won

I arrived in San Francisco, only two hours after leaving Vancouver. On the same plane was one of my colleagues and I were not know she had booked a trip on board the same plane. I sat several rows behind me, and we did not get a chance to chat. He said that the trip was simple but do not move to Sacramento. Bart took the train to the other side of the Gulf to Auckland, where you transfer to another train heading north Bart. Landed in Richmond, a town north of Berkeley, then got Amtrak train heading north-east of Sacramento. I am in the Kings rolled over 9 hours after I left the hotel in Vancouver Airport, just a long day to consider how a short trip compared to other trips I have taken. The change in temperature a little bit of shock, such as standing in front of the blast furnace. I wore a jacket in the morning, wait in the afternoon and can be obtained was 37 degrees Celsius. Very nice in fact, after a summer of delays in Vancouver. Chose my friend, Chris, I even Amtrak station in Sacramento, and took me back to her house, and my home base

Setting of the house

During the next nine weeks.

Chris has a friend who owns a house and some property in a small town called Chinese Camp, a little outside of Yosemite National Park, and that we had this desination the first weekend of my summer. We went to the south to the busy agricultural town of Lodi, where we had lunch. We are in the Sacramento Valley, where most crops are grown in North America. You name it, they have grown here. As you drive, you can see a mixture of cultures from a single crop each headed for a table somewhere in North America tomorrow. We ate in the Fox dance, and a restaurant that served delicious food in the food, and we hope to sow the seeds locally.

Drove south again we Stockton on Highway 99, and then we turned east and went to the Chinese camp. We had a few different ways to find, and we pass through some flat lands, which began to grow, and become a little dryer because of lack of irrigation, I think. Chinese camp on the scene is more like a savannah, and a lot of dirt-brown convertible, but still with a lot of plants on the green trees short. Taller trees near rivers and lakes, which has not dried

Mark Twain

The rumors of my death are exaggerated to a large extent.
After exit. House sits on hundreds of acres, and built almost 100 years ago. We have all the modern amenities we need – in the refrigerator, fireplace, grill, laundry and modern bathroom. It’s colonial style house with a porch that goes all over the house on each floor. We are locked in the lake that afternoon the first day, the end of the day to the plain lazy.

The next morning we went to Jamestown to see the old steam trains. Railtown 1897 State Historic Park, steam trains, two in good condition, and two vehicles, the old platform, and locomotives and yard work, where volunteers are busy restoring last steam engines, vehicles and other machines of 100 years associated with the rail. More volunteers in the parade on the dress period; I met Mark Twain, Clint Eastwood, and Harpo Marx. Harpo? What was he doing there, with the exception of decisions Hoots and whistles, just like the trains. A old man with gray hair gray beard, sat in the out of tune honky tonk piano and played Star Spangled Banner and other American tunes – this is the July 4th long weekend. Railway line is the most Jamestown

Railtown 1897 State Park earlier

Photographed railtown old and train in the world. It’s the star of the state of Virginia, Petticoat Junction, and return to third in the future, Apple Pie and the gang was hard afternoon.

Then we went to Yosemite National Park. We had to climb thousands of feet to the entrance, then down to the floor of some of the valley. We followed a long string of cars in the valley, and the scenery just kept getting more and more amazing. The tall trees and thick and green and green. Everyone knows a good thing when they see it, and everyone was here on it. Yosemite get three million visitors each year, and it seemed as if everyone in America has decided to come on July 4 long weekend to find out the position of each major. Yosemite shuttle buses now, and these are often full and slowed from queue of cars. We parked in the valley and decided to walk around for a period of time. I took many pictures, and we are going to explore the village and the Yosemite Lodge Awhanhee. Later in the day, we drove to Glacier Point, just a stone’s throw from the valley, 3000 feet high above the ground of the valley. We listened to the guard

Yosemite valley.

Talk about keeping the park and watched the sunset on Half Dome. We ate dinner in the garden at the Lodge Awhanhee and we were in too late to return to Camp Chinese that night.

Sierra granite, and about 10 million years ago and progress at the creation of mountains, and caused the same time a lot of erosion and rivers began to flow quickly. Half Dome and El Capitan are two examples of rock resitant particular to weathering. The Ice Age 2 million years ago, creating valleys and large we all seek today. The entire park was created in 1890 and it is 3000 square kilometers, about the same size as Rhode Island, the same size as Metro Vancouver to Langley from Vancouver to the west and down to the border, maintaining the same size as the English model. The settlers looking for gold but found none; come looking for spectacular scenery and lots.

On the second day in the park we drove through the park along the Tioga Road. This road divides the park, leaving the northern half of land as he sees very few tourists, but most backcountry explorers Hardy. This way,

Half Dome in the sunset

Traffic was much less than it was in the valley just a little further south. The peaceful and beautiful alike. Olmstead at the point you can search the bottom of the valley, Tenaya Creek to see Half Dome from the other side. This was the highest in the engine after altitide. In Tuolumne Meadows and the eastern entrance to the park, we got to 9945 feet. I highly recommend seeing this side of the park, but not many of you, and we want to keep on the road Tioga quiet place.

We came down from the high side of the High Commissioner to quickly dry the rain shadow of the Sierra. Imagine the development of the High Plains Drifter, and this is the place where it was filmed; desert, surrounded by mountains in every direction. We went to Mono Lake, Lake about the same area in the city of Vancouver. And saline and alkaline lake with no natural outlet. It’s three times saltier than the ocean and very alkaline, and pH 10. Los Angeles County began to pump water from some rivers that feed Mono Lake and the lake began to drain quickly. Tuva that spire of limestone and was at risk. These natural features quite a sight -

Tenaya River Valley

Half Dome from the other side
White, fragile texture with a little champagne about 3 meters. An agreement was reached such that Los Angeles has some of the water, but it would be to achieve the level of the lake in a sustainable manner. We wandered around the shore line annoy millions of sand flies and watching the gulls – it’s not the Dead Sea at all. Brine shrimp are in the lake, but no fish.

We stayed the night in Lee Vining, a small town near the lake on Highway 395. We drove back to Sacramento the next day to the north along the highway designated scenic 395. Even then most of the Sierra once again to pass a little south observer of Lake Tahoe. Followed the holidays and return after a long