Yosemite Tour with Sis - 2008.06.04


My sister, Yvonne, was retired and living in Tucson Arizona. She had always wanted to visit Yosemity and decided to do a holiday with her favorite brother in San Francisco. I bought us a two day trip, we were picked up at a local hotel a block away! The weather was great and after the two day tour, we went around the City and then visited some of my friends that my sister also knew!

Yosemite Tour with Sis - 2008.06.04


Yosemite National Park is in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. It's famed for its giant, ancient sequoia trees, and for Tunnel View, the iconic vista of towering Bridalveil Fall and the granite cliffs of El Capitan and Half Dome. In Yosemite Village are shops, restaurants, lodging, the Yosemite Museum and the Ansel Adams Gallery, with prints of the photographer's renowned black-and-white landscapes of the area.



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Entering Yosemite National Park!
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Derek - Chuck - Malcolm - Elizabeth - Daphne - Ellis - Yvonne - Kirri - John



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Map of the Shuttle Path in the Valley
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Lots of Fun on the Shuttle!

Malcolm & Elizabeth - New Zealand



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Tuolumne Grove Trailhead - Trailhead Route
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Checking the Trees Out!


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This Tree was over 2,000 years old when cut down!
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Hiking the Trails with Sister!



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Yosemity Valley


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Chuck
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Yvonne



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El Capitan & Half Dome in the Distance & Nevada Falls on the Right!



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Half Dome to the left and Vernal Falls at the Bottom and the Nevada Falls on the Right!

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Chuck



Yosemite Tour with Sis - 2008.06.04

We saw reindeer and then the only bear during our drives! Our driver saw this one and it looked like a speck. He had good eyes! I took a few photos with my telephoto lenses and figured there wasn't anything in the photos. Low and behold, was I surprised, I checked out the photos and this is what I saw! Not too bad from a thousand feet away and a small camera!

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Nevada Falls


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Bottom is the Vernal Falls!
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Great Shot of a Rainbow!



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The Famous Ahwahnee Hotel - $800 a Night Per Room!

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Yosemite Tour with Sis - 2008.06.04



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Chuck and Yvonne at the Fourth Tallest Waterfalls in the World!


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Violet and her "Girls" Looking for Luve!
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Beautiful Streams from the Falls!



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Half Dome from the Valley Floor!

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Yosemite Falls from the Valley Floor!



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Asian Art Museum

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Great Food in the Asian Art Museum Cafe!



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Taking the 'F' Line Downtown!
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Coffee on Union Square at the Italian Cafe!


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Leave Your Heart in San Francisco! Union Square!
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Enjoying the View from Chuck's Balcony!



Tim & Yvonne!

Dinner was great but.........

Afterwards we were having trail mix and soft drinks and I had a nervous twitch and knocked over a good glass and broke it, dumped the plastic container of snacks all over the floor and everyone had a good laugh.  They decided they needed to take a photo of the host cleaning up his mess!


We had lunch just north of Half Moon Bay.  The restaurant is Sam's Chowder and Seafood House. - Patti and I met 40 Years Ago Working for Fireman's Fund Insurance in San Francisco.  They were the biggest computer center on the west coast with Mainframes to process policies and so on!

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Yvonne, Gina & Patti

Yvonne, Gina & Chuck!

Beautiful Scenery after Lunch!

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Patti's Great House in the City!

Patti's Mediterranean Garden!

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Old Time Buddies - Patti & Chuck

Patti's Multiple Decks full of Flowers and Veggies and Herbs!



The Old Waterworks Building Renovated for the Museum!

Sis Enjoying the View!

We Met Lucas, the Owner of the Asian Art Museum Cafe by accident today - He also Runs this Cafe in the Jewish Museum and we told him we had lunch last week at his other cafe!  I was hoping to see him there today!

The Old and the New - The old Waterworks Building from around 1915 and the new Steel Covering of the Additions!



Amtrack to Los Gatos (San Jose) from San Francisco!

Bob, Yvonne, Chuck and Rosemary at the Los Gatos Cafe for Lunch!

Checking out the vineyard and Champagne!  Rosemary and I met 20 years ago around 1988 at the Boole & Babbage Software Company in Sunnyvale!

The Huge Deck!

Private Balcony off the Master Bedroom!

Sis on the Steps.

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My Favorite Sister at the Farmer's Market in the Civic Center of San Francisco!



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