The day began auspiciously with a beautiful sunrise over the tiny gem of a lake that we had found to camp next to in Nevada the night after we left Antelope Island. Pulling into the little town of Ely, we looked up directions and had some breakfast at a tasty Mexican fast food place. We had to get through the Sierras and spend at least one more night there, before reaching home on the Russian River: there was no physical way to get home any sooner with the distance and terrain we had to cover.
“We can spend up to two nights in Yosemite,” Mike said, holding his phone aloft at the National Park reservation site. “That gets us closer to home than through Lake Tahoe.”
We’d had reservations at a campground in Lake Tahoe, but Mike had received an email alert that they had been canceled due to a nearby fire in the area.
We both love Yosemite and crossing the Sierras through that park seemed like a good solution, so he made the reservations. We set off on a whole new road and direction than we’d…
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