San Francisco and Yosemite

After three days in Napa Valley, we drove back to San Fransisco and stayed for three days.

We spent the days walking around the city:)

We would have liked to stay for a couple of more days, but we have a lot of driving ahead of us. We have decided to go east from San Francisco through Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, Flagstaff and Albuquerque, south through Texas and then east again to Mississippi. First stop on the way: Yosemite National Park.

We visited the National Park, and stopped by the giant Sequoias. The Sequoias are big, but there have been fewer of these giants over the past century as we have become more sufficient in putting out wild fires. The wild fires suppressed other vegetation, while the Sequoias endured the flames. There were however a large wild fire in the immediate proximity of the Yosemite valley last fall, which was evident from the miles and miles of burned down forrest we passed along the way.