After a long flight of nearly 11 hours we landed on the International Airport of San Francisco. Customs was easy and staff was polite. First contact with home was made, Wi-Fi and Edge could not be used on my iPhone: the internet/telecom operators should improve this facet of living.
After collecting the four minivans we were heading for Yosemite Park, a nature park more than 200 miles from San Francisco. I got a typical stereotype image of the environment. The number of big gars is huge, old cars have been pimped up, old farms along the road, huge fields, old houses, caravans, thousands of wind mills on the hills. Using maps, Tom Tom and a bit of orientation and after a stop for some sandwiches we ultimately reached our motel Cedar Lodge in the village of El Portal on 9.15 pm. A quick meal was the end of a long trip.
*Bintangs: Dutch rock group in the sixties and seventies with a song titled Traveling in the USA. Name of the group derived from the brand name “Bir Bintang”, meaning star beer in Indonesian language.
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