aug 27 WONDERFUL Wednesday

I gave up trying to find Wi-Fi connectivity so I knew I was going to be making some patients mad so I I would have to pay for being a nomad. Patriot Moble said I could call and they would try to find better connectivity. But it would be take some time so it wasn't worth the hassle. I made some grilled water coffee and burned a couple of eggs which had been frozen because my refrigerator now decides to be a freezer so even the beer froze and popped. tragedy !

So we headed on the trek across the whole park to the camp reservation I had for tonight, which also had the only gas station in the park . The trip is only about 40 miles, but it took most of the day as this place is a variable wonderland. There is something spectacular around every bend that just must be photographed, and there are many bends to say the least. The views are simply jaw, dropping, and many times my neck would not bend up high enough to see the top of a cliff above me. Yellowstone was unique. With a sort of scientific beauty. The Tetons were incredible in Majesty and I thought the most beautiful mountains I had ever seen until I hit Yosemite. I believe it is the winner, hands-down from sheer volume, if nothing else of in your face bold Magnificence There are streams and lakes and waterfalls , foests and Meadows besides the jagged cliffs beside sandpaper smooth granite walls

When we finally found the Crane flats Campground, which of course didn't have a sign until you were two blocks into it so I missed it twice thinking it was just a country road. However, when I did get there and was checked in and sent to my site, there was no way to back my Casita up and around to this narrow little spot with boulders on both sides so after jackknifing the trailer and thus smashing the other tail light and then scraping the bottom of a door on a boulder, I declared" the hell with it" and took off back to the check in spot and ask politely if they couldn't give me another spot since there were many available. I could see perhaps I really did need a handicap spot.

They hemmed and hawded hard and then said the boulders were purposely placed so that people wouldn't drive onto the grass and that sometimes you had to come in from the other direction going the wrong way to get a big rig again. Mine certainly isn't a big rig so I can't imagine even someone who knows how to back up could get anything bigger than my little 15 footer in between their rock and a hard place. Anyway, I finally got a new site and parked and unhooked Casita and then took off for the Yosemite Village where all the welcoming center, interpretive center restaurant that supposedly had free Wi-Fi and Ansel Adams studio,bike trails that I thought might finally be a place I could make use of my e-bike to get around to all of these places rather than taking the shuttle from the central parking lot. HOWEVER by the time we got there which is only about 16 miles however at 25 to 35 mph even without the Casita and of course stopping at must see spots it was 4:45 and the Welcome Center closes at five and then there was the problem of my furry companion, hardly a service dog and not welcome on the shuttle bus, in any building ,on any hiking paths. So after finally finding the car in a parking lot full of white cars and of course not paying attention to which lot I am in, we headed back for home stopping at some of the places we had missed on the way down to the valley. After getting back to the Casita we had had a beautiful starlit dinner in a gorgeous pine forest . We gave thanks for another incredible day exploring God's creation, I can certainly see why he had to rest after six days.