7/08 Speeding Kills Bears

Finally going to Yosemite! We thought we could ask Stephen to take us to the airport in the morning but we knocked and knocked on his door so many times but to no response. 

So we had no choice but to take an Uber, it’s around 15 dollars but took us directly to the Car rental place near the airport so it was quite convenient. We waited for like half an hour in line though we had already booked our ride and finally got ourselves one Mitsubishi Mirage, it was small, blue, the trunk can only fit in our big suitcase, but it was comfy enough for the two of us and we get to play our own music from the USB.

Off we go and left San Francisco, crossing the bridge and entered a deserted area where what we see are only cows and long bushes and yellow soil. We had bought snacks and beverages at a supermarket beforehand and eaten our brunch, so it was okay when we reached Yosemite Village at around 2 pm. 

We checked into the International Backpackers Hostel, it was comfortable enough, so much better than the Backpackers Paradise that I had been staying in Los Angeles the last time. It was 10 beds in a room and a sharing of one bathroom. We secured our beds and hit the car up to the Yosemite Park.

We stopped occasionally on the way for some photos of the scenery, the beautiful rocky cliff and the mountains. It took us around 1 hour from the Yosemite Village to the entrance of the park and the path was winding the whole time which made me dizzy and bored. But eventually we paid 30 dollars and got our admission to the park.

The park was enormous and we stopped whenever we felt beautiful or worth taking a picture, I love the tunnel view of the mountains the best, it was magnificent where you get to see the valley and the waterfall. The lower part of the waterfall was also pretty legit, and I even climbed through the rocks to get really close to them.

We’ve decided to come back in the morning because our admission ticket is always available for entry until the 14^th of July, we would be checking out some of the spots that we had missed, take some other pretty photos and go to San Jose all happy.

(We chatted with many other backpackers back in our hostel, they were really nice and curious in sharing and learning about our trip plan, but most of them were shock that we’ve decided to include San Jose in our trip haha)

(Speeding Kills the Bears are signs that you see really often throughout the entire Yosemite Park, but I think the bear is capable of killing the car and the driver if the two really clashed)