breakfast and packed up and were on our way by about 9:30. The Wuksatchi Lodge was a nice place and pretty reasonable at this time of year considering it is in a national park. You can tell that both the lodge and the park could use an investment of a few more dollars. Some of it is beginning to look a little frayed.We had an hour's drive just to get down from the mountains and
we wanted to go slow so we could maybe get some bear pictures. We were not disappointed. The first one was climbing a hill next to the road so all you get to see is bear-butt, mostly. We drove farther down the slope and surprised a mother and a cub that were walking up the road. This is close to where we saw the other mother and cub yesterday but this cub was bigger. 
This time the mother scrambled down the slope toward the river but the cub was curious and stayed on the road to see what we were doing. The cub was young enough that is was still the tan color. We saw a total of nine bears while in the park. We also encountered a number of Mule Deer at various times. You do get the feeling, after a while, that you are being watched.
we wanted to go slow so we could maybe get some bear pictures. We were not disappointed. The first one was climbing a hill next to the road so all you get to see is bear-butt, mostly. We drove farther down the slope and surprised a mother and a cub that were walking up the road. This is close to where we saw the other mother and cub yesterday but this cub was bigger. 
This time the mother scrambled down the slope toward the river but the cub was curious and stayed on the road to see what we were doing. The cub was young enough that is was still the tan color. We saw a total of nine bears while in the park. We also encountered a number of Mule Deer at various times. You do get the feeling, after a while, that you are being watched. We a
lso stopped at an overlook to take another picture looking back toward the valley without the smog. The sky was perfectly blue and cloudless. The view down toward the valley actually is of a number of smaller and lower mountain ridges but off in the distance you can begin to see the haze building.
lso stopped at an overlook to take another picture looking back toward the valley without the smog. The sky was perfectly blue and cloudless. The view down toward the valley actually is of a number of smaller and lower mountain ridges but off in the distance you can begin to see the haze building.We decide
d to take I-5 back north instead of Highway 99. We had to cross the valley all the way over to the west side to catch the interstate so we got to see more farms. We weren't more than a few miles into the valley when the haze became so thick that visibility was cut to maybe two miles. It felt like we were travelling in a bubble. We saw some cotton growing and Jill said that she is glad that this wasn't the first part of California that she saw. It was too much like Waco.Jill navigated with the maps and got us safely back up to the San Mateo Bridge and then on into San Bruno. We are staying very (very!) close to the airport so we will be able to return the golden rental car and get to the airport in time for our 1 PM flight. We got a carry-out pizza and watched an old Mrs. Marple and a Sherlock Holmes on TV.
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