I will post lots of pictures today, and if a picture is worth a thousand words then this will be a very verbose post.
We left Lake Tahoe early in the morning. It was 28 degrees. We crossed into Nevada briefly on hwy 206 on our way to hwy 88. We stopped in Markleeville, California for breakfast where we saw this plaque on a building:
We headed up Monitor Pass, elevation 8,314, and Vanna didn't complain one bit. (Who's car am I driving? Seriously)
We were the only ones on the road. Here's proof, a pic of John and Lilly at Monitor Pass in the middle of the road:
Coming down Monitor Pass was just as beautiful. Anyone recognize the designs in the landscape? What are they?
It was then south on hwy 395 to Mono Lake.
And then on to Yosemite National Park. Vanna climbed Tioga Pass, elevation 9,945. Admittedly she did it in second gear and I wished we had installed the Fred Flinstone holes in the floorboard so we could have used our feet to help push her. I think a Yugo passed us. But here's proof she made it:
We had lunch at a lake in Yosemite all to ourselves. Yosemite was the first place we encountered more than a couple of other people. But no crowds, no traffic.
We left the Park and continued down hwy 395 with the Sierra Nevadas to our west. Near Mt. Whitney we spotted a herd of elk.
Hard to see, but the elk are there.
We ended the day at the Western Movie Museum in Lone Pine where many many westerns were filmed.
Tonight the girls are fed and happy, and so are our dogs.
Tomorrow: Death Valley.
Update: It is our Vanna. I forgot that she fried the Bluetooth phone connection today.
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