Post #764317 by danlovestikis on Fri, May 27, 2016 8:36 PM

Dan and I are celebrating our 38th wedding anniversary today. My gift was a trip to the gold country and Yosemite.

When you head to the gold country you see how much of California is still empty.

We drove past reservoir's and saw where people who work in a huge prison live. Yep they are in a gated community.

Then we reached Jamestown.

First antique store had this treasure for us. It's a PNG hunter with a spear and a dead alligator or crocodile over his shoulder. A wonderful find.

I wanted a photo of this fun sign.

We had lunch and then went on to Sonora.

Dan passed on the Trader Vic's skulls since he had a couple but they were fun to find.

Now to Yosemite National Park.

To beat traffic we drove into the park very early.

We still ended up sitting at a detour for 10 minutes. We were sent across a temporary bridge.

Then we saw the huge landslide covering the road we had been on. I remembered hearing about this on the news. Wow!

I think Yosemite should have been named Yostone for all the giant rocks that were everywhere.

Once we were into the park we came across beautiful waterfalls every other mile.

We went to the Ahwahnee Hotel now named the Majestic for a breakfast buffet.

We just wanted to sit in this room for an hour.

This was a relaxing stop after a long drive.

We walked around out back.

We drove on every road that we could find.

Interesting?

Then it was time to head home. Which is only 3.5 hours away. I can't believe we have never been here before.

One last look back at the Yosemite Valley. You can see one of the waterfalls at the very top.

On the way home we stopped at a thrift store in Oakdale. We were greeted with this funky tiki arch. A fun end to our anniversary adventure.