Part 6, and even though there’s not much of the trip left, some of the best is still yet to come. At the end of Part 5 we were travelling south towards Sacramento and LA before we flew east for a final week in America. Which means our first stop was a day in the Amazing Yosemite National Park.
A postcard morning at Tunnel View. (37°42’56.49″N,119°40’38.22″W)
The Light at the end of the Tunnel
Another perspective of Tunnel view; if you can put up with the cold and the potential of substantial snowfalls, Yosemite is almost deserted during winter and escaping the crowds can be pretty easy.
Amazing scenery everywhere you look – Happy Isles Bridge (37°43’56.85″N,119°33’31.10″W)
El Capitan Reflections (37°43’2.27″N,119°39’43.06″W)
It’s pretty impossible to give a sense of the scale in these photos, but Yosemite Falls in the sixth highest waterfall in the world… (37°44’21.43″N,119°35’39.88″W)
More waterfalls…
Silky Streams
Like’n the Lichen
Reflections on Mirror Lake (37°44’49.35″N,119°33’2.46″W)
One last photo on the way out of the Park… (37°43’24.98″N,119°43’6.71″W)
Recent devastating bushfires just outside the park had left surreal scenes of black and orange. (37.82199500,-120.03903833)
A monstrous Southern Pacific Cab-Forward steam locomotive; the only of it’s kind to be preserved, at the Sacramento Rail Museum. (38.58515833,-121.50463667)
Selfies in the mirror…
A magic afternoon at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco… (37.82757000,-122.49885833)
Lombard Street; One of San Frans’ famous sights. (37.80198333,-122.41941167)
The eerie Alcatraz in the bay ( 37°49’36.23″N,122°25’22.41″W)
Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco ( 37°48’38.34″N,122°24’40.30″W)
Route 101 winds its way along the coast, just outside of LA (36°21’32.22″N,121°54’1.50″W)
Blue skies on the West Coast (35.35803500,-120.85120000)
The epic parking ticket collection we amassed from all over western North America
The sun sets over Huntington Beach (33.65373833,-117.99932333)
Huntington beach pier silhouetted against an amazing sky…
Welcome to the O.C. bitch (33.59477500,-117.88291833)
And with that we said goodbye to the West coast, and hello to Florida. Disneyland’s Epcot – Utopia or Dystopia…? I’m not sure, but it certainly wasn’t lacking in slow boat rides. (28.37191000,-81.54994167)
The abomination we created on the ‘Test Track’ ride, which won our timeslot’s competition and was not far off the best performing design of the day. What. The. ?
Busch Gardens, Tampa; rollercoaster heaven and a definite highlight (28.03344000,-82.42318000)
Day trip to NASA’s Cape Canaveral (28.52265667,-80.68183833)
Aerial Display before the start of the Daytona 500 (29.18870000,-81.06995333)
Minutes before torrential rain stops the race for 6 hours…
And with that I’m done! One epic trip, 9 Weeks, 10,000kms, thousands of dollars, 6000+ photos, and memories that will last a lifetime. I hope you’ve enjoyed browsing through the photos because I certainly enjoyed capturing them!
