Today is the day! After months of planning and a lot of last minute changes, we are ready...or as ready as we are going to be! The plan for today is get on the road at 9am, drive over to Lone Pine, California and camp at the Whitney Portal Campground. We are going to be leaving the Element in the long term parking and get a shuttle up to Tuolumne Meadows tomorrow morning.
The cats realized something was up...all of them were hiding. We said good-bye to Victor under the
couch and to Phil & Vince under the bed. They would be in great hands though as Lisa, the best Cat Sitter
in the world was going to be making daily visits. I think this was the most expensive part of this trip!
The car was all loaded up. We were leaving it at the trailhead
and basically everything we packed we would be taking with.
On the road 3 minutes early!!! Little did we know this would be
one of the few days we would leave ahead of schedule!
I was in contact with someone starting the next day from Yosemite Valley, she had said there was
potentially bad weather moving in. We saw clouds on the way over...not much we could do about it though!
When we got to Lone Pine, CA we had to stop in at the Pharmacy for a look around!
Our first views of the Sierras. Amazing to think that is where we are going to be hiking
for the next 2 1/2 weeks! The road up to Whitney Portal from Lone Pine.
We set up camp and took the car to it's parking spot for
the next couple of weeks. At least it had a great view!!
There are bears in the area and if you leave your car parked here, you have to have everything cleaned
out of it. You can not leave anything with an odor in the car. I spent hours the weekend prior cleaning out and scrubbing the car! Jason thought I was crazy...until he saw the pictures in the campground.
We walked back to the campground to have dinner and a fire. There were fire restrictions
along the whole John Muir Trail so this was our only opportunity for a fire. The also have really cool cabins here.
I am so stylish!! |
Dinner was Lasagna with Spicy Italian Ground Turkey & Spinach. We also had picked up some Carrots & Hummus for an appetizer and it was one of the few nights we got dessert! I combined pudding mix & powdered milk so that we could just add water for pudding--tonight was vanilla pudding with some cinnamon graham crackers--yum!
There was a bear box in the campsite so everything went in there tonight. Our neighbors
decided that they were scared of the dark and left a light on all night long.
HOW RUDE is all I will say about that. I hope we wake them up at 5am when we have to get up!!!
We finally called it a night!
HOME SWEET HOME for the next 19 nights!
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