Liz was not well so staying another night was out of the question. We both felt that we saw enough and needed to see a few more places before Vegas. We headed out of Yosemite visiting places on the way. First on the list was to see an area where mature sequoais could be seen. One dead tree had a road through it! We took highway 120 from the park through arid but very beautiful scenery. The road was brill, I am bored of busy multiple lane highways. This road had...

Take some white granite add some sequoais trees and you have the basic ingredients for Yosemite National Park. This being America where everything is big, the sequoais trees are the largest trees on the planet and the granite mountains rise 4000ft from the valley floor. Getting here from Mono Lake we climbed over the 10000ft Tioga Pass (high enough for Liz to feel the effects of altitude). We camped out at about 7000ft on this road in a wonderful forest near Yos...