“246 miles turn right”

As we left our hotel on the 101 route it said this!

Journeying through California towards Yosemite 

We followed the red trees route 101 through many miles of fir trees and found the road to be very windy following riverbeds

Further south the road was straighter but not easy very bumpy and no one keeping to the 65mph speed limit 

We saw many birds of prey and some vineyards, orchards, pick your own fruits, strawberry fields. The grass was yellow and no longer the tall trees.

We stopped for a coffee in a warm wind like a hairdryer’s. We were now on more populated areas of California lots of Mexican music rather than country music 🤣 and a few palm trees

We passed a grass fire on a hillside near houses

We now met the smoke again and passed a grass fire close to our route. It was smoky all over the hills and valleys and towards Stockton where we were headed 

San Pablo bay was a bird watchers paradise 

We saw large birds of prey and egrets flying over close to our car 

We were crawling along in a jam of vehicles

Stilts, egrets, a pelican, all on huge marshlands

We stopped for petrol and it was hot 75*f.

Not far to go now and much more traffic than we’ve been used to 

We passed acres of farmland with thousands of wind turbines on them.

Our hotel is for one night only as we have a lodge to live in in Yosemite from tomorrow. 

My photos are all from my phone through the car window as we travelled xxx