http://thegreenplace.net/travel Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:26:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yosemite national park is about 1.5 hours driving from Oakhurst (where our motel was). All the surroundings are a dense, lush pine forest, and the air is very clean and full of nice pine smell. The park itself is breathtakingly beautiful. It's very large and only a small portion of it ... http://thegreenplace.net/travel/2009/04/16/yosemite-los-angeles-pacific-coast/ We spent the first three days of our California vacation in San Francisco. San Francisco is built on 47 hills, which means that walking in it is very tiring, as the ascents are quite steep (and we've probably climbed a good portion of those hills). It also means that there ... http://thegreenplace.net/travel/2009/04/09/san-francisco-las-vegas/