General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse/What did I learn today? Visit with friends Old/New, ALL Welcome..., 5 by Bettypauze

Bettypauze wrote:
Things to do, places to be this morning, get to give Liz a big hug for all of you..

No words for yesterday, don’t know where I ever got the impression that Death Valley was flat?? Silly me, have to say it’s mountains was every bit as spectacular as Grand Canyon..

First leg of the trip we barely say a car, mid point we stopped at visitors Center who gave us a few must see and off we went..look at the days weather as posted by staff,
Hottest I’ll ever see!!

Attendant told is to go down to the “devils Golf course” then come back through a one way not to be missed “painters drive” to view some Mother Nature’s colourful rock foundation, flats and sand dunes . We never left Death Valley until 4 (not sure what I going to do with my case of 24 of water lol but that is ok, sure would have needed it in 129 degrees (53C)

On to Yosemite which would have given us an arrival time of 9 or so..gassed up just before the park entrance and attendant said 5 major fires in park and that an earlier one that afternoon might have closed Hwy 120..we were excited when we saw ‘park open” drove one hour and kept commenting how the terrain was not what we thought it should be, we were right, on wrong road, had to backtrack but we kept our sense of humour, the sign was telling us it was Hwy 120 and it was but we had to drive another 15 miles for 120 east and of course no signal for phones/gps..decided to get a drink and gas up, asked the attendant about travelling through Yosemite at night, said if it was she she would go north around the park and it would bring us to out hotel destination, put an hour longer. To our day, what to heck we say lol what is ant hour..

Got the tell you I’d have hated to see what was worse in Yosemite because we started a climb up the mountains last sign I saw said 12,000 above sea level and we still climbed after thatto say there were sharp turns would be minimizing them, think of a spiral, that is what I drove through (lucky me I was driving) these turns you had to do 10-15 miles an hour..ended up we just laughed, what can you do, beats crying lol. Asmuch fun as it was hoping up, the coming down was as much fun, was so thankful I couldn’t see for darkness because I knew I was hugging the cliff..of course I know know when they say there is a ‘pass” this old gal isn’t taking it🤪

So it was 1 before we got to our room,slept like a babe and now it’s off to San franscisco for yet another day of adventures