After New Orleans, we travelled back to San Fran and drove to Yosemite National Park for a few days, followed by Palo Alto.

Yosemite was amazing – quite a change from the city/city/city we had been doing. We had really nice weather – cool enough for walking but not too cold that we were complaining.

We stayed at Camp Curry in a basic tent – it had real beds, a light inside and – most importantly – a bear locker for our food and cosmetics. They are really strict about this at Yosemite.

On the first day we were there we climbed Sentinel Dome – an 8km uphill steep incline that seemed to never end. We walked up and down it that day. It was a major feat for me and left me stoked, but super tired!

  
  
  
  
Yosemite National Park celebrated its 125th birthday whilst we were there and they had some sweet celebration events. Lots of kids were attending and involved in the events which was great to see. The whole Yosemite experience reminded me of school camp. Heaps of fun.

From Yosemite we drove to Palo Alto so I could nerd out in Silicon Valley and Stanford. So awesome. Our friend recently landed a job at Google so he showed us around the Googleplex campus. That place is wild! Endless food, coffee, a bowling alley, g-bikes and g-buses, nerf guns and schwag. They really want their peeps to stay there as long as possible and have a great time working there.

We also got to go to a Stanford vs Arizona College football game. Totally like the movies. Nuff said.

We headed back up to San Francisco after Palo Alto, but I am going to write about that another time. Right now, I am in Copenhagen and majorly struggling with jet lag. It’s 5:00am and I have been up all night. I am hoping my sleeping patterns get a bit more normal soon… 😐