Thank You:)

The trip is over and we made it back to Phoenix on Friday, July 2nd at about 3:30pm.

Thank you all for watching the blog and keeping track of us. It was a great trip and we had a great time.

We definitely have already started putting together our list for places that we need to get back to. It was a wonderful time and I am so thankful that I was able to do this trip and also to include Mikayla with me. It is a trip that we are going to remember for many years to come. I can't believe that we are already done and then again I am glad to be home and see everyone.

Now that we are done, the final mileage count is 5,151.3 miles all together. I can't believe that we did that many miles all in 19 days.

The fun has ended and now we are back in the heat and I get to swim for the rest of the summer.

The trip is coming to an end

Mikayla doing dishes at our shady site outside of Bakersfield. Got to love someone else doing the dishes:)

This is the "shady" spot, only 3 other people in the entire place and we where in the middle of nowhere, right by the mountains.


When we left Yosemite we headed south and stayed the night about 30 miles east of Bakersfield, CA. This was probably the "shadiest" place that we have stayed in throughout the trip. Thank goodness it was at the end of the trip.

From here we headed into Arizona. My mother said that it would only take about 2 hours to get to Kingman from here. Well she was slightly off, it took us 5 hours to get into Kingman. From here were drove for about another hour and stayed the night with some family friends (Jack and Susan). They have some property in the area and it was such a relief to get off of the road and to have a place to stay for the night. We even got a home-cooked meal this night and also breakfast in the morning. It was awesome!!!

Yosemite

This shot has Notre Dame on the left, some arches in the middle and then half dome on the right.

Bridalvail waterfall, Mikayla said that it is about 620 feet tall.

This has the Upper Falls, the Middle Falls and Lower Falls all together. The Middle Falls are rather short but if you look close they are right above the lower falls.

A pic of El Capitan as we were driving into the park. Just a massive sight to behold, I can't believe that we were there.


Today we headed into Yosemite National Park. We stayed the night about 30 miles from the park and it was a strange camp site. The tent area was separate from the parking and seating area. Also the car was at a slight angle and I wouldn't let Mikayla get on the car because from her side it started to sway slightly that way. A little scary but I don't think that the car would have tipped over but I just wanted to be safe.

When we went to Yosemite I really didn't know what to expect, it was just another great park along the way. When we started driving in, I knew that it was a great park to be at. Just breathe taking views from every angle and you had to keep stopping to get out and take pictures.

I finally found out why this park is great. It was El Capitan and also the Half Dome. Not to mention all the beautiful waterfalls that we saw from the road. It was spectacular!!!!

We went to the Lower Falls and the Upper Falls, it was a great walk and the lower falls you get right next up to. We even felt the mist coming off of the the falls.

After roaming around for awhile we went back to the car and got the bikes and went to Mirror Lake. It was about a mile and a half each way but it was a great little lake and there where even people swimming in it. Mikayla put her feet in the water and said that it was freezing cold.