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Day 11 – I've found that the farther North you go in Ca. the friendlier the people are. Rode the Pacific Coast Hwy, and it's a beautiful drive, lots of twisting turning roads overlooking the ocean. Saw some sea loins and great scenery.

In fact, by the end of it my arms were beginning to feel like rubber. Stayed in Monterey, got up the next morning and went to the aquarium there. It was a pretty cool place. From there, we're leaving for San Ramon, which is just outside of San Francisco, to see Kathy, Steve's niece. Carol

Day 12 thru 13 – 6/2,3,4 – San Ramon, CA – Steve and I had so much fun visiting with family at Kathy's place. Enjoyed seeing Jane, Dominick, Antoinette, Mallory, Cassidy and of course Kathy. She is a wonderful host and a great tour guide only 2 or 3 u-turns! She took us to Alice's Restaurant (yep, the same one that Arlo Guthrie sings about) the roads were great. Kathy was riding with Steve on his bike – he only scared her a couple of times. The next day Kathy took us on a tour of San Francisco. Pretty cool place, at first I wanted to take the bikes, but was glad we didn't, the traffic was sooooo bad!! The hilly streets were pretty bad ass!! Thanks Kathy!!!! Carol

Day 14 – 6/5 – Groveland, CA – Short drive up to Yosemite National Park. The Priest drive portion of Hwy 120 was a pretty good ride, lots of twisties and up hill all the way with huge drop offs and few guard rails. Day 15 - We made a reservation with the Charlotte Hotel in Groveland, CA across from the famous Iron Door saloon so we could just stumble home at night but they put us in a condo out of town. Not such a great stay. The park on the other hand was great! We took a two mile hike to see the sequoia trees and some cool water falls and a lot of snow.
We cruised some nice roads and some spectacular scenery but didn't get to the valley, just ran out of time, the place is huge. You really need to stay in the park for several days to see it all.



Day 15 – 6/6 – Left Groveland for Ely, NV which meant riding thru the park from west side to east side. Yosemite is just so incredible, there was just so much to see, we spent so much time stopping here and there we had another long day, eleven hours.


We did get to see 2 bears a brown bear and a black bear, the black bear we saw really close up, about 50 feet away.
We also found that there are a lot of towns shown on the map of Nevada that really don't exist, we only ran out of gas once! But we're still having too much fun... most of the time! Tried the casino's in Ely without much luck.

Day 16 – 6/7 – Ely, NV to Green River, UT was about 400 miles and some really spectacular scenery. We normally try to avoid the interstates but the ride on I-70 from Salina to Green River is something not to be missed, just one awesome canyon, mesa and mountain pass after another.