The World of Little Little Bird

Four months flew by. Yosemite is the last stop that my parents visited before they returned to China. We left Austin early on Saturday the 15th and landed in San Jose around 10am. After leaving the luggages at Kelvin's new home (a very nice one), we headed for Yosemite. Hwy 120 is very challenging, left and right, up and down on 5000ft mountains. We can see the valley next to the road. Some part of the road doesn't even have fences. One Tsinghua doc was reported to have fallen down from the highway when driving last year. We were inside the park at around 3pm. Compared to the July 4th visit to Grand Canyon, there were much fewer people. We first went to the Yosemite Valley. We visited the largest monolith in the world, El Capitan, we hiked to the Bridalveil Falls, we hanged around the Yosemite Village, and hiked to the longest water fall in the North America, the Yosemite Falls. The falls are awesome, which are indeed 飞流直下三千尺. We stayed at the Best Western in Oakhurst. I was lucky that I had booked my hotel in Okahurst, which is a town 15 miles away from the south entrance. The road to the west entrance was blocked my the mudslide in June.