Four Hours East

One of the many reasons I love living in the Bay Area is that if you drive a couple hours in any direction, you find yourself in a completely different place. There is the beach in the west, the city in the north, mountains and lakes northeast, you name it. But if you drive for about four hours east, you end up in one of my favorite places, a beautiful national park called Yosemite. For my dad's fiftieth birthday last year, my family wanted to do something special. My dad isn't the kind of person who likes to splurge on expensive gifts, so he, my mom, and I took a short 4-day vacation to Yosemite. The outing was a typical, outdoors trip including cabins, starry nights, wild animals, public showers, and bugs (that's what got to me the most, the mosquitos), but the scenes we saw were spectacular.



This is one my dad took of the infamous Half Dome during a sunset. A couple years ago, my uncle was home alone for a week and bored, so decided to climb the mountain with nothing but a safety strap and whatever he could carry in his backpack.



My dad also took this one of the river leading out from directly under the raging Yosemite Falls. After hours of hiking, it felt so nice to sit in the cool shade, feet dangling in the icy water.

It occurred to me today that I did not explain the title of my blog. It's the name of a Modest Mouse song I really like, and I also liked the sound of it. Here is the first verse of the song:

"To answer the question, it'll probably take more
If you're already there, well you probably don't know
Well we were the people that we wanted to know
And we're the places that we wanted to go."

I'm not quite sure what it is about, but you can tell me your thoughts.

Tiffany

Lyrics Source: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/People-As-Places-As-People-lyrics-Modest-Mouse/70D7E14D56D9FEA24825727D0014F20E