Yosemite Village

On May 24, I wrote that the night before I finished writing and went to the patio to buy a beer and discovered all the places to buy beer in the area had closed at 10 so I gave up and went to bed.

I woke three times – I was very preoccupied with getting up on time. I was so excited about visiting Yosemite. I got out of bed at 5:45.

We managed packing. The boys did their packing by themselves pretty well. We got pastries and I got a coffee before heading over to the bus station to sit where we knew the Yosemite Area Regional Transit System (YARTS) bus would show up. We saw the bus at an intersection nearby – the boys were very worried because the bus circled the block. However, it showed up at the stop as all of the information predicted. We were very relieved.

After we boarded, the bus stopped at Amtrak and a half an hour later we stopped at Kathy’s Junction before climbing into the foothills. We made Mariposa easily. The boys were playing Minecraft right as we entered the Merced Canyon and climbed to El Portal. I collected the iPads and then we watched the canyon walls as we entered Yosemite. As he knew how exciting the entrance can be, the driver had the children in the bus sit in front. Some other boy was sitting with us and everyone counted waterfalls (we saw seven).

When we got off the bus in Curry Village, we got a snack before walking to housekeeping and finding my older sister who had invited us to join her in her annual family trip. She invited us to walk to Yosemite Village. We went to the Welcome Center, Interpretive Center, Adams Museum and I took my brother in law to a coffee shop.

I took the boys on the bus back. When we got to Housekeeping, we got beverages and found the tent we were sharing with my niece and her beau.

 
This is an occasional series chronicling my life. This Notebook Analysis series is meant to be contemporaneous piece developed as an agglomeration of my notebook pages. In each of these posts I used my notes to develop my recent thoughts.