This post represents another installment in the series documenting our West Coast National Parks trip in the summer of 2017. Alan and I, along with our 18 year old daughter, Kyra, logged a total of 8,513 memorable miles of adventure over the course of five and a half weeks during the months of July and August.
Yosemite National Park had been a bucket list item of ours for more years than I’d care to count. Since a straight-line journey from our home to Yosemite is nearly 3,000 miles, we knew that this visit would require an extended trip. We held off for a number of years, never feeling that the timing was right. As it turned out, the summer of 2017, following Kyra’s high school graduation, provided the best opportunity. As far as I’m concerned, our timing was about as far from impeccable as you can get. Why? At the time of our visit, the National Park Service was embroiled in a lawsuit with the Park’s former concessionaire. Somehow, we managed to visit Yosemite National Park during the four years that the Park’s iconic hotel, the Ahwahnee, was not the Ahwahnee.
