Based on the excuse of visiting a friend living in San Franciasco, we organized a 10-day trip around California and hitting Las Vegas as well. A lot of miles (they don’t use kilometres over there) with what they consider a “too small” car (Ford Focus, Kia Soul), including nature (Yosemite Park, and the Central Coast), desert (Death Valley), craziness (Las Vegas), big cities (Los Angeles, San Francisco) and coast towns (Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, etc).

I will split the trip in three different posts to make it more readable, and make the pictures also viewable without falling asleep. The first part covers Yosemite and Death Valley, the second will take from Las Vegas to half of Central Coast, and the last part will cover the second part of the Central Coast to San Francisco.

The first day we visited Yosemite. It is one of the famous National Parks in United States and its fame is very well deserved.

The park surrounds the Valley, which is the result from the presence of a glaciar 10 million years ago, and which now is full of trees, and surrounded by steep granite walls, where waterfalls find their way out (or down).

The day after it was time to drive to Las Vegas. Long drive through the desert in Nevada State, and also a quick visit to the deepest point in North America, in Death Valley (which you may guess it is not full of life).

I liked the experience of being in the middle of nowhere for real. We crossed just a couple of small towns, with very long distances among them, and which made you reflect, how it would be living over there, especially when we looked to the steady outside temperature over 40ºC.