08:46. At the foot of Yosemite Falls. We have a good breakfast before setting out. The road to Yosemite Valley has reopened after yesterday’s snow storm. Our timing with the weather has been extraordinarily good this trip. Today, although we don’t run into any bad weather, the skies are mostly gray. I don’t think I’ve [...]
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The black stuff on the shoreline is not algae or seaweed. It’s masses of alkali flies. When you walk near them clouds of them rise. Luckily they’re not biting flies and don’t show the least bit interest in humans. Green rabbitbrush, Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus–I think.
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Happily, none of us are weighed down by that sense of modesty that seems peculiar to many Americans.
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Postcard: Main Street, Truckee
Adventures in Truckee: Joys of “Coffee And”…the Rocking Stone…candied apples.
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