A wonderful time at Yosemite National Park. This giant Sequoia tree is truly a giant. These are the tallest trees on the planet and the park had many amazing trees with huge girths and trunks reaching for the sky.

Arriving in San Francisco at 1pm for just two evenings meant we were on a very tight schedule to see and do things before going on to Las Vegas. Saturday was already booked with a full dayvtrip to Yosemite National Park,  so it really left two half days to get out and about.   We checked into the Handlery Hotel at 1.15pm and by 2.00pm we were on a bus for a 4 hour sight seeing tour of San Francisco. Our tour guide was from Venezuela and Daniella certainly knew ...

It was not easy getting up at 4am for our flights to San Francisco. It had been a big day yesterday and feeling rather weary, but within 15 minutes we were in the lobby catching a taxi to Nashville airport.  Our taxi driver had moved to Nashville in 1999 from Egypt and so we had a chat about life in Egypt, he loved country music.   Our first flight was to Dallas  Fortworth airport where I bought us breakfast/lunch. It was only a 40 minute transfer,  but in ...