I don't think i've ever seen a waterfall that high!
Wow wow Wow!
Look at the size of that rock it's bigger than my house!
This is the Golden Gate bridge!
After two years and four months we have finally made it to the pacific coast side.
We're Marianne and Chris in 2018 we quit the nine to five and bought Trudy our camper van.
We are currently on an adventure to drive the circumference of the world.
Good morning my sweet! Good morning, yes I do look this good every morning! that's just my face!
it's about 5.20 in the morning and we are heading into the park bright and early
look at that view to wake up to!
The noise of the water was very therapeutic last night,
it was a good night's sleep here.
Right you ready to go have a look around Yosemite? I was born ready!
Oh we've got loads of motorhomes, wow loads of people slept here last night!
We had an early night,
there was only three vehicles when we went to sleep?
I didn't hear any of these arrived last night, did you?
The sound of the water just drowned everything out.
Okay here we go!
I love how many people sleep in their cars to be able to get to that adventure.
How cool is that?
Amazing!
The sun is just thinking about peeking up you can see the moon up there.
We haven't even had our first cup of coffee this morning yet.
Okay we've arrived at the checkpoint
so half past five in the morning the gate was closed,
but we have a pass, we have an America is beautiful pass.
We've literally just only come into the park and already it's stunning.
They're all in a hurry everybody comes to nature to learn to relax
and everybody's driving so fast!
We keep pulling over to let everybody go past!
These cliffs have just gone into vertical cliffs
i don't think i've ever seen a vertical cliff that high before!
Already it feels just so lovely to be in nature like this,
all we need now is yogi bear
i know that's Yellowstone!
He might be on holiday, yogi bear and Sasquatch!
We've stopped off on the way into the park,
because we have to show you these beautiful scenes
all these people rushing into the park,
we're guilty of it too
sometimes we don't just stop and smell the coffee.
So we thought we'd stop here and it's magnificent.
You can hear the woodpecker.
We've just come into the park and we've found this bridge
and there's a huge waterfall in the distance.
I've just filmed this for instagram,
but i have to share this with you
that's Chris filming the woodpecker up there, who was throwing things down at him and squeaking.
He's so excited he's like
pneumatic drill style!
That's the best shot isn't it so close! So close i could hear him, but i couldn't see him.
There is a bride that's like come down to have a photo taken in front of the waterfall.
one of the things coming in bright and early into the park,
is we didn't get a map from the entrance.
So i'm just trying to work out where we are?
We've driven in here and we've driven round,
and this loop here, so we are here so the road i think goes around,
and then goes around and then comes back.
Accommodation so we're just passing this accommodation here,
Curry village it's called, Curry village!
I wonder if they sell Indian food?
residential area only do not enter !
Are there people must live there?
So we've come in from the north west corner of Yosemite and we've come all the way in to the visitors centre,
Look that is Yosemite park,
it's a huge park this is where we've come in here,
actually we're not in the north at all we're in the west!
Yeah we wanted to come in this route here but it was closed due to snow,
it's still closed this time of year,
because it's really high up but they've got all of these information boards here telling you all about
your time here in Yosemite.
How to get around, what to do if you only have a day,
hiking trails, which is a huge thing here,
when we met up with Drew and Brittany from Mr and Mrs Adventure,
they said if you see people with binoculars looking up at the rock faces stop because you'll probably see some crazy hardcore rock climbers,
some of them even sleep in their tents on the side of the mountain,
I haven't seen them yet but we're definitely going to keep an eye out for them.
and just in case you wanted to know ....
yes they do have black bears here in the park
and they're active all year round!
There you go.... they've also got mountain lions here look,
and if you're attacked which is very rare fight back and make lots of noise!
I reckon we can make noise!
It's very interesting about the bears though,
that's one of the things that we are concerned about when we head up to the top of Alaska is bears
but we're going to buy bear spray when we get to Canada.
So we've parked Trudy up and we thought we'd go for a little walk and just enjoy
this wonderful nature while we're here,
it's beautiful, it really is getting back to nature.
That's a pretty big tree it's not as big as the big redwoods that i've seen online,
but that's massive! These trees are huge!
That must be a redwood? or a sequoia? or a .....? but i know that they have sequoias
here in the park but look at the size of that tree!
And i love the smell it just smells so
natural doesn't it? foresty? while Marianne's pulling faces selfies in front of the tree.
Wow wow wow, so we wandered down now and we're heading to
the lower falls here, it is spectacular!
Look at that! It's not very often, i don't think i've ever seen a waterfall that high?!
and there's all these little cheeky squirrels running in front of you, they're huge!
How do you know your husband loves you?
When he doesn't shout at you when you break one of the cameras!!
So if you drop a Gopro 8 the lens is cracked and on the eights you can't replace the lens!
And it's only three months old .... we need to go buy a new camera
not only are these trees massive, but look at this you can see where all the holes from the woodpeckers are,
Is that a woodpecker? it must be a woodpecker why is it so smooth
because they're cool and smooth shaved! I don't know but on all the trees
i'm not thinking they're like termites they look like they've been like chiseled out ...?
Comment below if you know.
Look at the size of that rock!
That would have fallen down from the top of the cliff in years gone by,
it's bigger than my house!
Wow we've made it to the bottom, the lower falls, look at that!
That's a good time to visit, there's lots of water flowing.
It's also a very nice place to cool off because it's a fine mist spraying here.
That's just phenomenal !
It's another one of those places that you just cannot capture the enormity and all of the beauty .... it's amazing!
So the total height of this waterfall is 740 meters,
and it is actually the tallest waterfall in the United States and the 5th tallest waterfall in the world!
Well that was a fantastic walk,
we've got back to Trudy now we've jumped in
Chris is checking the map because we've got internet, so we can find our way out.
And i've had to get changed because this morning when we left we had boots and coats and jumpers and everything
on because it was cold, I had shorts on because i'm hardcore! he's hardcore, i had long trousers
and my hoodie, and now i am absolutely glowing!
It's roasting .... it is roasting! Anyway we're going to hit the road and drive out through the park,
and enjoy the rest of the view, because it is phenomenal ...!
I just saw a warning sign caution bears!
When we're in Texas hill country, we were told that it was a tragedy that we left without seeing any blue bonnets!
Look what we found ... Blue Bonnets ! Hundreds of them!
We've seen loads and loads and loads of them now....
and yes they are beautiful!
After a fantastic day in Yosemite park,
we're now starting the 4 and a half hour drive to San Francisco!
Past our little park up where we slept last night, what a spot!
So we're just on our way up to San Francisco and we're coming near a town called Modesto
and i thought it's a little bit warm let's check how hot it is today ...
39 degrees c - holy moly! No wonder it's hot!
Yeah, no matter how well we choose the weather windows
sometimes the climate catches us out!
Look what i have
so we've stopped off in Modesto, we've gone to best buys,
and i've just bought myself a new Gopro 9.
I'm sorry i broke the other one!
They're actually, they're expensive but they're cheaper than they were back home,
so it was $344 plus the tax
$6.39 for a gallon of diesel here at flying j's, we're just filling up.
But one cool thing is it says here,
California has a state law, that requires free air and water for car purposes,
and they've also got a tap here with drinking water.
We've got it all going on here so we're going to check the tyres and fill up Trudy with water
right we're all stocked up,
the air pump didn't have any pressure gauge on it,
so we've got our own compressor in the back, so we'll check that when we stop.
It's very warm! 39 degrees centigrade, probably .... 110 - 115,
it's no joke, it's very very hot today, very unpleasant.
Oh i can hear a cupboard door banging, all the cupboards are open,
that one,
the drawer,
the cupboard
flashing red light junction traffic lights, everybody - is a free-for-all!
The first person to go is the one with the biggest ovaries !
That's completely insane.
Looking online it says that San Francisco is 18 degrees colder than it is here,
and it's only two hours and 20 minutes away, how is that even possible?
San Francisco and LA ..... that looks weird!
That is San Francisco international terminal, baby - Welcome to San Francisco
we just passed in the international airport,
and we got about 20 miles until
we get to our park up we think we found a pretty cool park up for the night.
We're just coming into the city and there's cloud all the way along,
and it looks quite strange because the rest of it's blue skies?
So I hope it's not smoke like we saw in Santa Fe
Right is that fog, rain or smoke? I'm really confused ....it looks really really weird.
I think the movie big trouble in little china was filmed here,
and there was like a smoke that came in, i think it's right it looks foggy?!
Oh spooky
Welcome to San Francisco
Traffic, fog and it's a lot cooler!
And look at the colour of those pretty buildings over there ...
It's all very colourful.
There's very nice houses here, we're definitely in the posh end of town,
I think we are and i saw all the kids at the bus stop eating crispy cremes! So we're definitely in the posh part of town!
Good old 'mizzle' as we call it
I can't believe the change in weather
literally 39c to like 18c degrees within less than two hours drive, it's so cool!
We're just about to go over the Golden Gate bridge
i've seen it on so many movies! So many times, and we're about to drive over it!
Trudy is doing the Golden Gate Bridge !!
This is the Golden Gate Bridge ..... i promise it's there
but we can't see a thing! at all - it's completely foggy!
but that is the Golden Gate bridge,
and here we are!
We've come to the viewpoint and amazingly look
the sun has just come out,
i can see the bridge a little bit in the distance so we're going to stop here.
There you go, that is not a bad spot is it?
Right opposite the bridge!
I reckon that would do for tonight, what do you reckon? i think a high five is in order!
I can't see the pacific, but yeah we are at the famous Golden Gate bridge!
We are specifically at the pacific!
And i hope by the morning it will clear so we can show you a shot, look at that!
So after two years and four months of driving,
We have finally made it to the pacific coast side of America!
And behind that cloud is the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco,
we made it!
the Golden Gate bridge is right there!