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Stateside with Rosalea: Yosemite Photos
IMAGES TO GO WITH THE LATEST STATESIDE WITH ROSALEA….. We interrupt the previously scheduled travelog to bring you the Nightmare that is Yosemite National Park on a summer's day. See... Stateside: Nightmare In Yosemite National Park
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Everywhere you go in Yosemite, people and cameras abound. (Yes, even me and mine!)
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Besides being able to hire bikes, you can hire rubber dinghies to paddle on the Merced River. There were so many by mid-afternoon, that it looked like a bumper-car ride at the local A&P.
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This meadow made possible by the hand of Mother Nature, whose floodwaters wiped out all the lodges, stores and geegaw stalls in 1997. You go, girl!
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What's that poem again about nothing lovelier than a tree?
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On the way back from Yosemite, you see why California is called the Golden State.
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