Yosemite

As it's nearly the end of our trip, the four hour drive to Yosmite was almost putting us off but we're glad we stuck to our plan to visit this amazing National Park. As those of you who have been there will know, it's spectacular and jaw dropping. We loved cycling and walking around the trails marvelling each time we came around a bend to face yet another huge granite cliff.

We saw squirrels, chickadee, raccoons, chipmunks, mule deer and even a coyote but thankfully not a bear or mountain lion. In fact this is as close Ruby got to a bear which was just fine by me.

 It's too late into summer for the waterfalls to flow which was a shame so we'll have to return one spring in the future, even a winter there would be great to see. On our second day plumes of smoke came up over the ridge from another fire just over the rim of the park which doubled in size overnight. The upper trails were closed but it was still ok for us to be on the valley floor, we watched the helicopters and water carrying planes circle for the next two days then drove back to San Jose to return the car and catch up again with Charlie and Erica.