July 13, 2015 DAY 2
Ed and I started out the day with good intentions to be to
camp by 3:00 ish. Hoping to start the
day for breakfast at the RV park location
to find out it is closed Monday and Tuesday. No problem, we will find a place along the
way.. We get down to Highway 108 which
was our intended route and the first warning sign was trucks exceeding 30 feet not
advised, then the second sign up the road said vehicles with trailers not
advised, and the third one was the 26% grade, THAT was the topper, and it was
"hell no" no doing that one. We finally find a place to turn around
and headed back to Highway 395 and Tioga Pass. There are some grades on that road, it is a
pretty ride although Ed did not see much but the highway. The roads are narrow through Yosemite to
begin with but with idiotic tourists that stop smack in the middle of the road
to take pictures and then the really intelligent ones that stand aside their
parked car on the side of the road and backing up into the road to get a better
shot of a TREE, that idiot is lucky to be alive. Then the tunnels, glad I was not driving as I
covered my eyes. At any rate it took six
hours and we arrived to camp at 5:00 pm
just in time for dinner.
Excellent timing for sure.
Butch, Betty, Carol and Ed our leaders on this trip
provided a very nice meal of, pulled pork, beans and potato salad. It was awesome and thanks for all the work
they put in for this meal for forty people. Now Butch came around with homemade cookies
(at least that is what he said) red velvet cookies, not to be outdone Ed M.
claims his cookies were freshly baked.
He must be a heck of a baker, they tasted just as good as Costco
cookies. I do believe both men as they
are fine upstanding gentlemen...
It was great catching up with everyone. Since our SIRS 15 and SIRS 96 merged, there
are still a few unfamiliar faces but over time I am sure that will be
resolved. Quite a few folks were playing
this game, where you throw a rope type thingie with balls at each end at a
thing that looks like a three step ladder.
After watching a while Ed and I went up against Len and Ron, and
well, I have never been the most coordinated one so I may have made one point,
Ed was a bit better but we got
whupped! I am going to practice
and show em!!! Tomorrow was to be the
official trip to Yosemite but I think only half our group is going, Ed and I
declined as well since we just drove through the park but will no doubt go
another day, maybe Thursday. We do know
one thing for sure, we are not going back the same way. We will go with the rest of our group back to
Amador County, maybe spend the night in Ione then back to Reno. We live and learn.
I will report more tomorrow on who is here and doing
what. I will say it was great seeing Sue
and Steve. They have been through a lot and Steve looks marvelous. Don't tell him I said that tho!
Some of our group watching the ladder tournament game
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| Making lunch driving through Yosemite |
Time for some sleep soooooo.....
Until next time......
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