{"id":36086,"date":"2024-12-30T23:34:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T04:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=36086"},"modified":"2024-12-31T20:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T01:48:23","slug":"first-trip-to-yosemite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=36086","title":{"rendered":"First Trip to Yosemite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2475\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/901230_Last_Light_El_Capitan_ANW-24_w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2475\" class=\"wp-image-2475 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/901230_Last_Light_El_Capitan_ANW-24_w7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset Light on El Capitan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We spent most of the Christmas holiday in the Bay Area visiting family.\u00a0 When we left the Bay Area the morning of December 30, 1990, we decided to make a side trip to Yosemite before making the long drive home.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Our car was acting up by the time we arrived in Yosemite Valley. Fortunately for us the auto repair shop is open 7 days a week. We spent the day in Yosemite Village while they worked on our car. It was late afternoon when our car was finally fixed so we had just a little time to drive around the valley, see the sights, and for me to take pictures.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3656\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/901230-Snow-Hummocks-Merced-River-ANY5-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3656\" class=\"wp-image-3656 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/901230-Snow-Hummocks-Merced-River-ANY5-w7.jpg\" alt=\"Snow Hummocks, Merced River\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow Hummocks, Merced River.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We all thought Yosemite was spectacular.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31643\" style=\"width: 473px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/901230-El-Capitan-Moonlight-ANU23-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31643\" class=\"wp-image-31643 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/901230-El-Capitan-Moonlight-ANU23-w7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/901230-El-Capitan-Moonlight-ANU23-w7.jpg 463w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/901230-El-Capitan-Moonlight-ANU23-w7-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Capitan in the Moonlight.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Before we left I took a few more photos of El Capitan in the moonlight. We drove out of Yosemite Valley, stopped for a late supper, and found a place to stay for the night. Our first trip to Yosemite was 34 years ago today. The next morning we headed east on the four day drive home. I was hooked on Yosemite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent most of the Christmas holiday in the Bay Area visiting family.\u00a0 When we left the Bay Area the morning of December 30, 1990, we decided to make a side trip to Yosemite before making the long drive home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-locations","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36089,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36086\/revisions\/36089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}