To Merced via Wawona

Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:59:59 -800

I do not recommend taking the southern
road out of Yosemite. We saw a curly-queue sign warning about 25mph
speed limits (aa040555) soon after turning of Glacier Point Road... and a bunch
more just like it. This is never a good sign when driving down a road with a
car packed to the gills with camping, biking and other equipment. There was an
information sign about the horrors of smog (aa040548), and we noticed a large
number of piles of dead foliage by the side of the road (aa040549, 53, 54).
The road curved, and curved, and curved, and by the time we made it to a gas
station in Wawona, we were both ready to get out of the car and de-scramble our
brains.