Day 10 ... Zion to Yosemite

Day 10 had us driving from Zion National Park to Yosemite National Park through the Nevada desert on the "Extra Terrestrial Highway", passing by Area 51 and the very small "town" of Rachel, Nevada. As we passed by Area 51, we didn't see any UFO's, in fact, the only FO we saw was this bird flying overhead!

We had to stop at the Little A'Le'Inn for a couple of souvenirs and pictures.

There's not too much else to say about this day other than that it was a really long drive, through some pretty remarkable desert geography. I kind of enjoyed most of the drive, though I'm not sure I'd want to do it again!

When we finally reached Yosemite, Josh was too tired to even stop for our obligatory park sign picture … we'll have to do that on another day here. Unfortunately, it took us about 2 and a half hours to drive through the park and to our campground which is about 25 miles from the park's Western entrance. It's a curvy, mountainous road with lots of traffic and people sight-seeing rather than driving … given that we had already been in the car for almost 10 hours, I was getting a little frustrated!!!

We got to our campground, set up camp and then we both took long awaited showers!!! It felt really good to shower after three days without!

We'll be spending the next three days in and around Yosemite, so details on those days will be forthcoming in future posts.