Up and on our bikes about 9:00am. Cold morning, about 32º. I rode over to our Lower Pines campsite to see if it was empty. It was. I rode back via some new trails and a little cross country. Fun! We only had one night in North Pines, then a night in Lower Pines. We counted ourselves lucky to find empty sites two nights ago when at the fairgrounds.
We grabbed our food out of the bear lockers and drove to our new site, getting that chore completed early so we wouldn’t have to deal with it later. We made a quick ride west, then turned around at Yosemite Falls, returning via the back roads of the Awahnee. We gathered my computer and headed for lunch at Deanna's with Ranger Erik Westerlund, Sally’s former boss. After lunch, I spent an hour and a half showing Erik how to use Keynote so he could prepare for the headline presentation he will be giving in the theatre in the Valley all summer.
After helping Erik, we returned to the van, drove to a nice view point of Yosemite Falls and applied our newly acquired watercolor skills to painting the scene outside the van door. To get the van oriented so we could see the falls through the open sliding door I had to park it facing the wrong way on the one way highway, but traffic was minimal, making the u-turn not a life threatening ordeal.
After our painting session, we drove back to our campsite for dinner, a fire, a walk out into the star lit Cook’s meadow and bed.
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