Yosemite - with Our Grandson Alan

We decided a few months ago that we would like to take Alan with us on a short trip, and started to talk about where we could go that would be close to home, but somewhere he had not been before.  Yosemite was a place our kids enjoyed and so we thought that would be great.  We are members of Thousand Trails, and there is a campsite 5 miles from the gate on Highway 120.

Tom and Carol brought Alan up to our house on the Fourth of July.  It was nice to see them.  We had fireworks and Alan & Chris lit them off.  It was the first time in years that we had fireworks at our house.

Then on Saturday all the guys were off to San Francisco for a Giants game.  Chris had bought my ticket for Father's Day, and Alan's for his birthday.  We had tickets out in right field.  It was a great day, and the Giants won.

We left for Yosemite on Tuesday after senior breakfast at IHOP.  We loaded trailer and off we went. I had put direction's in GPS, and chose the second route. Big mistake. We got to our turn off and what to my surprise, 25 miles from our destination, we came to a dirt road?  And we are suppose to turn there.  I kept going, past more dirt roads, until we came to the road to Yosemite and we took it.  We drove a little farther and the sign said nothing over 60' long. I said we are ok. I never have measured our over all length, so I though we would be fine.  Came to a one lane bridge with sharp turn, made it, and on to Yosemite.  We finally got to campsite, and we only took 2 hours longer than we should have.

We got the campsite setup, and rested that night.  We looked at the info we had and Alan told us what he would like to see.

We had a great time.  Alan and I hiked down to see the giant sequoia trees, about a 3 mile hike, down hill the first half and uphill the second half.  Thought I was going to die coming up.  But we made it.  

Alan's favorite place as Wamona.  They had a stagecoach, horses, blacksmith, homes, museum, and a talk on Indians.  We ate at a old fancy Resturant, complete with napkins folded like "hats", or that is what Alan said.

We spent a day at Yosemite Valley, and Alan got his Jr. Range badge and made a basket like the Indians made.  We hiked to one of the waterfalls, but not as big as it would have been durning years with more snow.

 At camp we fished, cooked, swam, and sat in clubhouse trying to get Internet service.  We played games at night, and had a great time with out youngest grandchild.  It was a great trip, and we look forward to doing it again.