Kiwis and Fairy Bread
Mike and Ellen's Travel Adventures
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Yosemite: Salute to El Capitan…or…Go climb a rock
26 June 2025 It’s no surprise that Mike and I were very sore today. Walking, especially up and down steps, was painful. This was a great reason to have an easy day and explore parts of the valley that did not require physical exertion. Keeping to our early bird gets the parking space mantra, we packed our lunch, skipped stopping for another pic at the iconic Tunnel View, turned into Yosemite Visitors Lot A1 at 10am to the same primo parking spot we’d had on Day 1! Well done, Mike! On the way for a coffee, we watched a deer… Read more
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Yosemite: it’s been a hard day’s hike
25 June 2025 Alternative subtitles for this post: Falling for waterfalls Falling beside waterfalls Steps? Who calls these steps? Blood on the map. Yosemite people are SO nice! Go slow or….die. Should have taken the John Muir trail instead. Never underestimate the value of a pocket first aid kit. We didn’t know this was the deadliest trail in Yosemite! Whoever wrote this episode should die! Yes, dear readers, we had QUITE the adventure! Mike had first learned about The Panorama Trail from a colleague. This four and a half mile trail starts at Glacier Point and ends at Nevada Falls… Read more
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