So the plan for today was to drive. Man did I accomplish that task.
So I was up before dawn again. I got everything ready the night before, so all I really had to do was breakdown camp, shower, then roll out…
At this point I am becoming much more efficient at packing and upacking everything. It is interesting when you are traveling like this alone. Every single task must be completed by you, so even minor things end up taking at least twice the amount of time.
Anyway, today was especially quick about packing everything up. Not too sure why though. All I did was drive and that desert is not that interesting. Well I shouldn’t say that. There is some amazing canyons that I drove through, but I was coming from 3 days of amazing canyons. So canyons weren’t getting me that excited.
After I got into Nevada, there really was nothing. Some mountains, but it is all barren. No cars, no people, no nothing.
All I kept thinking all day is that someone could just kill me out there, and no one would know. Seriously, I told my family I was driving to Yosemite, but that’s about it. I was on the roads and I still didn’t know where I was. Honestly, I wasn’t too worried though. I was armed with my firecrackers and air horn. Remember… I’ll scare them to death.
Anyway, nothing interesting happened all day. Just driving. Right up until the end of the day. I had been seeing cattle signs for about 100 miles when finally I came upon some free ranging cattle. When I say free ranging, I mean that you are doing 75-80 mph down the road that no one is on, and then there are some cattle standing in the middle of the road. I saw one dead one on the side of the road. You really wouldn’t want to hit one of these monsters. I had to beep at one to get it out of the road. Then I said hello to it and moved on.
The next bit of awesomeness came at sunset. The sun set behind the mountains I was driving towards. The desert is a pretty barren and ugly place, but the sunsets are beautiful.
By far, the best part of the day came after sunset. I was driving at it was starting to get dark quickly. I was driving and saw some animals on the side of the road. Remember what I said about hitting the cattle? So I started to slow down when I noticed that the animals on the side of the road couldn’t be cattle. When I slowed more, I realized that there was a group of wild horses on the side of the road. Ive seen horses before, but it was awesome to see a family of wild horses on the side of the road grazing. I hung out and snapped a few photos and a video of the horses. The pictures came out pretty terribly, and I’m not able to watch the video on this computer.
Finally, I arrived just outside of the East entrance to Yosemite some time around 10 o’clock I believe. It was extremely frustrating finding a camp site. I couldn’t just camp on the side of the road either. This is bear country, I needed a place with a bear locker. Eventually, I found a place. I set up camp real quick, lit a fire, and kicked back to check out the stars.
So I was up before dawn again. I got everything ready the night before, so all I really had to do was breakdown camp, shower, then roll out…
At this point I am becoming much more efficient at packing and upacking everything. It is interesting when you are traveling like this alone. Every single task must be completed by you, so even minor things end up taking at least twice the amount of time.
Anyway, today was especially quick about packing everything up. Not too sure why though. All I did was drive and that desert is not that interesting. Well I shouldn’t say that. There is some amazing canyons that I drove through, but I was coming from 3 days of amazing canyons. So canyons weren’t getting me that excited.
After I got into Nevada, there really was nothing. Some mountains, but it is all barren. No cars, no people, no nothing.
All I kept thinking all day is that someone could just kill me out there, and no one would know. Seriously, I told my family I was driving to Yosemite, but that’s about it. I was on the roads and I still didn’t know where I was. Honestly, I wasn’t too worried though. I was armed with my firecrackers and air horn. Remember… I’ll scare them to death.
Anyway, nothing interesting happened all day. Just driving. Right up until the end of the day. I had been seeing cattle signs for about 100 miles when finally I came upon some free ranging cattle. When I say free ranging, I mean that you are doing 75-80 mph down the road that no one is on, and then there are some cattle standing in the middle of the road. I saw one dead one on the side of the road. You really wouldn’t want to hit one of these monsters. I had to beep at one to get it out of the road. Then I said hello to it and moved on.
The next bit of awesomeness came at sunset. The sun set behind the mountains I was driving towards. The desert is a pretty barren and ugly place, but the sunsets are beautiful.
By far, the best part of the day came after sunset. I was driving at it was starting to get dark quickly. I was driving and saw some animals on the side of the road. Remember what I said about hitting the cattle? So I started to slow down when I noticed that the animals on the side of the road couldn’t be cattle. When I slowed more, I realized that there was a group of wild horses on the side of the road. Ive seen horses before, but it was awesome to see a family of wild horses on the side of the road grazing. I hung out and snapped a few photos and a video of the horses. The pictures came out pretty terribly, and I’m not able to watch the video on this computer.
Finally, I arrived just outside of the East entrance to Yosemite some time around 10 o’clock I believe. It was extremely frustrating finding a camp site. I couldn’t just camp on the side of the road either. This is bear country, I needed a place with a bear locker. Eventually, I found a place. I set up camp real quick, lit a fire, and kicked back to check out the stars.
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