![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerMonday morning we got up a bit earlier than Sunday, having slept a bit more soundly Sunday night than Saturday. The uber-dry air continued to be a challenge for both of us but we'd gotten partially acclimated. Just in time to go home! 😒
We made a simple breakfast in the room from groceries we'd brought or bought. I didn't want a repeat of Sunday's hotel breakfast, even though it was again free, because it was too carbs-heavy for me. One of the hallmarks of adulthood is passing up delicious free food when it's not the right food.
One thing we did repeat from Sunday was a morning dip in the hot tub. Ahh, that felt nice. And the air outside was a bit warmer today... by which I mean about 50° instead of closer to 40. 🥶
Back at the room we relaxed a bit, not being in any particular rush to get on with the day. That felt kind of weird.... There was so much we could do but we just felt like relaxing instead.
Checkout time served as more of a motivator than anything else. We packed our bags and left the hotel just before 11. Lacking any stronger plan for where to go we headed north, back toward Lee Vining and Mono Lake. In Lee Vining we returned to the Mono Cone burger stand for lunch, where we ate on Saturday. "So nice it's twice," I quipped.
After lunch we drove around to the south side of Lake Mono. The main visitor area is on the south side. That's where you see Mono Lake's famous tufa spires. We've been there a few times before, most recently in 2017 (link above), so we didn't want to just repeat stuff we've done. Instead we drove to a lesser-visited area, Navy Beach, and saw sand tufa. Then we drove around to an area called Panum Crater and hiked up around a volcanic rhyolite plug.
Around 2:30pm we started heading for home. The scenic way. Which was also the fastest way. And by scenic I mean through Yosemite National Park. On the one hand it was retracing our drive from Friday night/early Saturday morning. On the other hand today it was daylight, not midnight, so we saw a lot more stuff. We pulled off to the side of the road several times to appreciate the beauty and take pictures.
After Yosemite... well, what can I say... it was a few hours of driving through not-Yosemite to get home. We walked through our front door at 9:15 and were completely unpacked in about 20 minutes. Now it's 10pm and I'm going to take a shower to clean off and cool down, then go to bed. It's been a nice 3-day weekend, but tomorrow morning it's back to work with a completely full schedule for the day!
We made a simple breakfast in the room from groceries we'd brought or bought. I didn't want a repeat of Sunday's hotel breakfast, even though it was again free, because it was too carbs-heavy for me. One of the hallmarks of adulthood is passing up delicious free food when it's not the right food.
One thing we did repeat from Sunday was a morning dip in the hot tub. Ahh, that felt nice. And the air outside was a bit warmer today... by which I mean about 50° instead of closer to 40. 🥶
Back at the room we relaxed a bit, not being in any particular rush to get on with the day. That felt kind of weird.... There was so much we could do but we just felt like relaxing instead.
Checkout time served as more of a motivator than anything else. We packed our bags and left the hotel just before 11. Lacking any stronger plan for where to go we headed north, back toward Lee Vining and Mono Lake. In Lee Vining we returned to the Mono Cone burger stand for lunch, where we ate on Saturday. "So nice it's twice," I quipped.
After lunch we drove around to the south side of Lake Mono. The main visitor area is on the south side. That's where you see Mono Lake's famous tufa spires. We've been there a few times before, most recently in 2017 (link above), so we didn't want to just repeat stuff we've done. Instead we drove to a lesser-visited area, Navy Beach, and saw sand tufa. Then we drove around to an area called Panum Crater and hiked up around a volcanic rhyolite plug.
Around 2:30pm we started heading for home. The scenic way. Which was also the fastest way. And by scenic I mean through Yosemite National Park. On the one hand it was retracing our drive from Friday night/early Saturday morning. On the other hand today it was daylight, not midnight, so we saw a lot more stuff. We pulled off to the side of the road several times to appreciate the beauty and take pictures.
After Yosemite... well, what can I say... it was a few hours of driving through not-Yosemite to get home. We walked through our front door at 9:15 and were completely unpacked in about 20 minutes. Now it's 10pm and I'm going to take a shower to clean off and cool down, then go to bed. It's been a nice 3-day weekend, but tomorrow morning it's back to work with a completely full schedule for the day!
