Fri Sept 26th
It’s been awhile since I have worked on this so I hope I can catch up.
Napa was beautiful, but nothing stays the same, Norm had a massage at the school but they are no longer free to past students, and he had a bad one to boot. He did have a nice visit with the Doctor that runs the school but he was the only one there he knew, all the instructors have moved on. We found a hot springs north of Calistoga called Harbin. Norm went in and I waited in the car and caught up on my reading. The wild turkeys were all over the place and I enjoyed watching them.
We have been at Coarsegold Ca at an escapee’s park about 20 miles from the south entrance to Yosemite, since Sept18th. We are about 30 miles north of Fresno and the ride here led us by miles of fruit and nut trees and large fields of veggies. We have been going on day trips into the park and over mountain passes. The views are spectacular with high rocky clefts of granite enclosing you on both sides. One day we drove through the park to Hetch Hetchy, a valley a lot like Yosemite located about 40 miles north west of Yosemite Valley where they have built a dam that supplies the water for San Francisco. After seeing Hetch Hetchy Norm decided since we were already all the way thru Yosemite we should continue across Tioga Pass. The views were spectacular with Mono Lake at the east end of the road. Mono Lake is a dead lake because the salts and minerals have become too concentrated for most species to survive. After we crossed Tioga pass Norm again decided we should take a different way home. With so much beauty to see we wanted to see as much as we could, which meant we had to take Sorona pass across the Sierra Nevada’s. There are not too many passes across the mountains so this required a fairly long trip and unfortunately it got dark LONG before we got home. We will try to catch some of this road at a later date.
We went into Fresno planning to go to the underground gardens but found they were only open on the weekends and have gone downhill since the founder passed away some 40 years ago, from there we went to the museum of art and history to find it closed for renovations. We then went to Clovis and roamed around lots of antique stores. Today we had to stay home and work just to rest!
NOTE: For some reason my computer is not cooperating with my wishes. I can receive emails and send blogs but cannot at this time send email. SO I can’t email you to tell you I have posted a new blog. Hope to get this worked out SOON!!
Best wishes Lois


Mono Lake and Tioga Pass