Snowball fight!
I lost my leg
I just fell over!
We didn't look at the route at all!
This is a Georgia road this is.
Oh my goodness
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.
So it's that time of the day again where we have to do chores, on the van and we needed propane.
We only had one little tiny dot left so we needed to top up so we came to this this place we just
googled it and it is called hunt propane and it's just outside Carson City here in Nevada
and we popped in, lovely guys, chatting away - talking about the journey, the adventure
we filled up and they said
"we won't take your money because we want to help you on your adventure"
Crazy lovely, isn't it? isn't that just absolutely lovely?
So come and meet the guys who are just lovely and fabulous!
Hey how you doing?
Hunt propane - Joel here, thank you very much
Hey safe travels, we're glad we can help you on your journey.
oh that's amazing, how amazing is that?
Sometimes you meet people that you just want to hug forever!
Maggie's lovely
She so lovely!
so Maggie's going to stick the Nevada sticker on Trudy
she gets the honour!
you know where it goes .... okay
Oh it's going to go over!
It's okay it's okay it's good, yay!
High five thank you very much
You guys rock!
That is ok, I am covered in wrinkles, so one more makes no difference!
oh that was so nice of those guys,
you see there really are lovely people around the world in every country ...
and that was a real act of kindness,
so thank you very much !
We're now starting out drive down to Yosemite,
it's about
four hours and we have to access from the west side because the road from the east
is closed still due to snow, yes there is snow!
And in fact here's some we made earlier!
We are in California baby! yay!
So the route down to Yosemite is taking us over the hills
over the mountains and through very picturesque little mountain villages,
just going through an area where they've obviously had forest fires, all the trees have burnt.
How terrifying would that have been to be in this little cute quaint town with those fires going around? Definitely
we're just coming over the mountains here and just saw a sign saying %24 gradient going down
that's steep! Trudy don't like steep downhills!
We had %17 Nemrut in Turkiye and that was steep enough! she did not like that!
It's a very beautiful drive through the valley here hugging the river
pine covered sides, many of which are still burnt and a snow-capped mountains in the distance,
look as we come around the corner here,
I wasn't expecting such a wonderful drive this morning
We keep driving and seeing these warning signs saying very long windy dangerous roads!
Is google maps joking with us ?
We just put in where we're going and then just went with it, we didn't look at the route at all!
Rookie mistake!! But it is very beautiful!
It said vehicles over 25 foot and Trudy is 20 foot.
So we just stopped off just to show you this river .... look at that!
Mountain river here in California!
There you go that's where we are .... that's beautiful!
Silver creek, road four in the alps.
We're in the Alps love!
We're in the alps, the American Alps!
We haven't seen any cars .... are we mad? maybe it's going to be snowy? I don't know where we're going, i have no idea!
I can smell the pine - it's lovely.
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So yeah we got about another 80 miles down this road,
so the road's narrowed now we're coming up over the mountain,
and we've seen a lot of cyclists enjoying this,
cycling fast down these hills,
i love roads like this!
This road is definitely more dangerous than the million-dollar highway!
So driving up the road today we just had to stop and show you this view!
Check this out...
How amazing is that?
On top of the world!
Million dollar highway, eat your heart out!
This this is a Georgia road, this is!
My goodness!
Sheer drops, no barriers,
Yeah if you haven't seen our video going to Mestia in Georgia?
You should check it out!
It's very similar to this!
Oh my goodness.... I love it!
This is crazy we got snow by the side of the road,
it just feels mad!
Lovely waterfall going down the mountain there,
I can't look ! Don't look Marianne i'll film it for you - thank you !
Little chalets just dotted around there.
This would be so bleak in the winter.
We've come up to this little spot of snow,
it's really deep
i just sunk down,
it's like a foot deep but it's a bit solid
are you in your flip flops? i'm in flip-flops
in ......
I just fell over !!
oh my god it's really cold
oh i'm sinking!
i can't believe you are in flip flops, take them off!
I want to walk in the snow!
California snow!
Snowball fight!
In California !! Oh my gosh
I lost my leg!!
that's why i fell over
i got cold feet, and i'm roasting it doesn't make any sense!
I can't believe you got me straight in the head!!
Just when you thought it couldn't get any more beautiful
we've come across this half frozen lake,
surrounded by snow pine trees.
I just love stopping and randomly talking to people we just met some lovely guys from India
and we've got a date, he's going to show us around his local area of India when we get there!
so i'm looking forward to Bangalore, we're coming!
As we say what goes up must come down, and poor Trudy she's coming down these mountains,
and i'm sure her brakes are getting pretty hot,
one of the things we did when we were back in the UK, we actually put Dot five brake fluid into Trudy instead of dot four,
after our brakes overheated in Turkiye because it can cope with higher brake temperatures,
and i do know about driving in a low gear!
We've been driving down many a mountain and we're coming down in second.
Just driving along now and they've got these amazing cabins next to these lakes.
Oh it's just a really really amazing drive,
i'm having trouble getting adjectives out to describe this!
We made it down the mountain and we just passed our first petrol station,
so many people told us to fill up in Nevada because it's expensive here,
and it was $6.49, oh there's another one $6.49 a gallon
and that's more than $1.20 a gallon than we paid this morning,
so good job, thank you to all of those people that warned us, that and definitely worth noting.
So the last hour's drive today is seeing us drive over these huge mountains, crazy mountain roads!
It's nearly five o'clock and we left this morning.
So we're not far from the entrance and we found a park up on iOverlander,
which is about five miles away, we're just going through this fabulous gorge here with the river running down.
Spectacular views! Everyone said Yosemite is a must see if you come here in the states,
and we are looking forward to seeing what it holds,
because already just the drive here is stunning.
Welcome to the town of el porto! El Portal - it's not very big, but there is a gas station!
And we got a couple of miles down here and there should be a place we are allowed to park up for the night.
Okay we think we can park here,
it says 'Ranger approved' on iOverlander,
so we will see ....
but we're we're going into the park at about six o'clock tomorrow morning,
and we've got nice views over the water,
although it makes you want to have a wee!
it does but it's very very beautiful!
So this is where we're parked at, where's your shoes?!
we thought we'd come and dunk our feet in the water and cool off a bit,
because it's very warm.
Oh my goodness it's freezing.
I could do with soaking my feet,
look at that water there!
That's melted snow, that is freezing!
You could have a little jacuzzi here, you want to Win Hoff it?
Don't go any further out Marianne because look at the power of that - that's nuts
my feet are freezing
it's a nice spot to sleep tonight isn't it?
A little waterfall!
There is little Trudy!
Freeze the fear!
for those of you back home in the UK,
Marianne is releasing her inner Wim Hoff,
Freeze the fear!
whilst we are sat
everyone's going to think we're completely barking the water's freezing it's melted snow!
Freeze to fear with Wim Hoff, great series on BBC back home,
we hope you've enjoyed this episode make sure you join us next time where we go and explore Yosemite park.
Bye for now