Grab a coffee or a tea, put your shoes off, cause we have a lot o things to tell you. You can also close your eyes to imagine the extraordinary landscapes, but it will not be an efficient reading.
So, we encounter the amazing roommates of Francois (100% organic) and his friends. Together we visited a little bit of Berkeley, the university, the cheap shops and of course the pubs and the clubs. But our appetite for adventures was too strong...
So it was times to leave big city to find our spirit with bears and rocks (not beer on rocks)
We took the road to the north.
Fist stop: Yosemite Park!
But you know junky and all his worries, so we decide to not come directly inside the park "because everything gonna be full" and we stop in the first camping site, right before the entrance, and guess what: That was an awesome idea! (Junky is really a great guy, he always has awesome ideas and he is incredibly handsome). Anyway, it was a huge camp ground without any shower with one tap water for everybody ruled by Jake, and ex-GI who was based in France in Poitiers for a couple of years in the 60's and who apparently had a very good time there, with Jaqueline and Claudette!!! After half an hour spent talking about all his former girlfriends, he finally gave us the authorization to camp there and told us his great secret: 2 miles from the campground, there is a huge waterfall where you "should be able to dive safely". It is already the sunset... nobody is at the waterfall, we are on top of the cliff, and it is really, really high... After 15 minutes to talk about how dead we would be if the lake was not deep enough, Papa jumped, and so did we, and dammit it was great!!! But now, the night has already come, we still have to build the tent, start a fire and Jake warns us that there are some coyotes on the hill, but that "they are not dangerous". But this would be too long too tell now...
Next morning, time to go in the park.
There is no words to describe what we saw. Just look the pictures. If heaven exists, it's gonna be close to that place. So there is something that you guys have to know about Yosemite Park: there are a lot of bears, and they really like to tear you car apart during the night to eat the cookies that you forgot on the back seats... So in order to prevent that, you have to store all the smelly stuff in a "bear locker", this huge steal container that stands in every camping site.
At 6:30PM, we decide that it is time to start visiting the park, and leave the campground for a little hike (I mean climbing a dangerous granite mountain, surrounded by bears, too easy), trying to follow a trail that we never found and finally ending up drinking beer on a rock, staring at the wonderful sunset on the other side of the valley. Back to the campground, we decide that we really want to see a bear, and that the best way to do so would be to attract it close to us, and what is better for that than a banana coated with honey that we put right in front of our tent before we went to sleep... oh and of course we did not sleep in the tent, so that we may see the bear coming, so we decided just to sleep in our sleeping bags on the tarp... Unfortunately, no bears came, and the only entertainement of the night was Adrian, our Romanian neighbour, whom we made discover Pastis, and got totally wasted drinking it... pretty cool too, after all (Cochon Francais!!!).
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