Day 23

There is just always so much to be doing. Either the weather is beautiful today for the place were going tomorrow has epic hiking or there’s a sunset that we should chase. It is exhausting. I kind of just want a day to be in an ugly place in rainy weather so I don’t feel like I’m missing anything.

There’s also a fine balance between planning the crap out of an itinerary versus seeing where the wind blows you. I think we have done a good balance so far of having a general idea of what we want to do in certain places and making the most out of our driving times.  Sometimes it is hard to just simplify, sit down and enjoy where we are because there is so much we want to do.

It is along the same struggle as - do I take pictures and capture these memories, or do I just sit here and relax and soak it all in?

There is always an inner battle of do more, now sit and enjoy.  Turns out this day was a lot of sitting in the car, and less enjoying.  We had a long drive back and forth to shuttle Narendra on his mountain bike ride on the Flume Trail.  We dropped him off, sat in construction traffic, picked up the trailer, then sat in more construction traffic, then picked him up.  After this, we spent another 4 hours driving to Yosemite.  After a gas stop where we paid $4.69 per gallon, we were on our way into the park.  We got to the park, exhausted, and spent another night poaching a pullout in a National Park.