Day 38 – April 17 – Moving to Yosemite

We left the wonderful (not) Pinto Lake Park campground around 9:30 and only have 161 miles to our next stopping point.  We will travel from near the west coast almost to the east border of the state.

We drove through commercial farming areas with fields of lettuce, garlic, artichokes, cabbage, and others we could not identify plus there were groves of almond, cherry and other fruit trees.  We stopped at a roadside stand and bought some strawberries, big oranges, fresh garlic, and a lemon.  Just before stopping we could smell the garlic – they were picking it (I guess the correct word is pulling it).

Our GPS units started giving us different directions to the same location.  Rick uses a Garmin and I have a TomTom.  I think Rick had his set to go through Main Street of every little town, or on the roughest street surface it could locate.  Finally at about 60 miles from the campground I said it was time for a little experiment – I was going to follow my GPS directions and he would follow his.  We parted ways, and within 7 miles of the campground I made a wrong turn – reading the road signs instead of listening to the voice of the GPS.  That cost us 4 minutes on our trip, and we ended up back behind the Otto’s RV as we drove the last 2 miles to the campground – Ye Ole Yosemite Campground.

The campground is rustic and we do not have cable TV or WiFi service, we just barely have cell phone service if you stand in the right place and hold your mouth right.  This is home until Monday morning.