Why?

My first time visiting the USA was 6 years ago. It was a round trip along the west coast and I had the chance to visit a lot of the most popular cities as well as quite a few national parks. All of them were amazing, but Yosemite blew me away. I’ve sworn to myself that I’d come back and explore the park beyond the main roads.

Although I’ve been to the USA multiple times since then, last time for the Google I/O, I’ve never managed to plan the trip to Yosemite. That was until January of this year, when I told Marvin and Robert about the trip and they committed.

When?

Our USA trip started on September 12th and ended on September 30th in 2018. We’ve spent 15 days in Yosemite, each one backpacking. It was just a few weeks after the national park reopened after being closed because of the Ferguson Fire, which burned 96,901 acres. Obviously the landscape was still recovering from that incident, more about that in the upcoming posts.