LIKE WATCHING PAINT DRY..AS GOOD AS IT GETS..!! LET ME EXPLAIN..SOMETIMES,YOU GET SO MUCH FUN PACKED INTO ONE DAY,THAT AT SOME POINT YOU HAVE TO STOP,SIT DOWN AND PINCH YOURSELF -TO APPRECIATE ALL THE GREAT THINGS THAT HAD JUST COME YOUR WAY,TODAY WAS 'NOT' ONE OF THOSE DAYS..CAN YOU REMEMBER IN THE OLD DAYS,WHEN PEOPLE ACTUALLY WENT OUT AND BOUGHT RECORDS-THOSE GREAT VINYL DISCS -WITH THE OPEN GATE SLEEVES AND ALL THE LYRICS INSIDE,YOU WAITED FOR THE RECORD TO H...

NEVER GIVE UP ON THAT TRAIL FOR GOLD..JAMESTOWN-GATEWAY TO THE MOTHER LODE COUNTRY(324)-(YOU WERE ONLY HERE A SHORT TIME RICK BUT YOU FOUND A 'GEM' OF A PLACE)...THE ROYAL CARRIAGE INN(325)(326) HAS WONDERFUL CHARM,WE SAT THROUGH THE AFTERNOON TODAY,UPSTAIRS OUT FRONT, WATCHING THE GOINGS ON- DOWN ON MAIN STREET,FRIDGE DOWN THE HALLWAY FULL OF BUD LITES,RACK OF RIBS ON ORDER FROM THE LOCAL STORE-TO BE CONSUMED LATER,LOVELY ROOMS(327) AND FRIENDLY STAFF,WHAT MORE ...

AH YOSEMITE-YOU HAD SO MUCH TO FOLLOW..THING IS, WE HAD BEEN SPOILT BY SCENERY BEFORE WE EVEN STEPPED INTO YOSSEMITE,COMBINE THE SIERRA MOUNTAINS,THE BEAUTIFUL MAMMOTH LAKES AND YOSEMITE(313)-(319) ALL IN ONE AND YOU HAVE PROBABLY ONE OF THE FINEST NATURAL WONDER SITES ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.THE OTHER FACTOR IS THE DRY HOT SUMMER THAT PLAYED IT'S PART HERE,AS THE MAIN LOWER AND HIGHER YOSEMITE FALLS HAD JUST ABOUT DRIED UP-SO NO WATERFALLS TO TAKE IN THERE!! WE DI...

WELL I KNOW YOU'RE ALL PACING THE FLOOR AND WONDERING WHAT HAPPENED TO LESLIE AND THE C.S.I. EPISODE LAST NIGHT-WE WENT BACK TO THE BAR (UNDER COVER OF COURSE)-ALAS ,NO ANSWERS,NO UPDATE,NO NOTHING-HER CAR WAS STILL THERE WHERE THE COP HAD PARKED IT,BUT THAT WAS IT...SO, JUST LIKE LORD LUCAN AND SHERGAR-WE WILL NEVER KNOW THE ANSWER!! PREVIOUS TO THIS,WE WERE BACK ON THE GOOD STUFF-THE 'JUNE LAKE LOOP'(308)-(312)-JUST HAD SOME WINGS IN THE BAR THAT WERE SO HOT,TH...

WE LEFT BISHOP FOR MAMMOTH LAKES(296)(297) A LITTLE FURTHER UP THE VALLEY,MORE SCENERY TO TAKE IN,AS WE GIVE IT OUR FINAL PUSH TOWARDS YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (SOUND LIKE SHACKLETON HERE !!) AGAIN WE CAME ACROSS SOME STUNNING STUFF,DECIDED TO STAY IN MAMMOTH LAKES FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS ,TO SEE IT ALL...FIRST UP WERE THE TWIN LAKES(298)(299)(300)(301),THEN ROUND TO LAKE MARY(302) WHERE WE FOUND A COUPLE FISHING(303)-THE VIEW HERE A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM THE ANCHOLME...