California on the road August 2008
come to Los angeles from new york, united airlines flight with about 5 hours, perfect. at Los angeles car hire booked from Italy, a giant suv cadillac with automatic transmission. alamo rental wanted boast about $ 700 more ', and after some' discussion with the employee to delivery, we managed to keep the price paid by Australia, after having shown the ticket was in the Convention .. try to try ... after the revolutions of a rite beverly hills and Hollywood parties towards Solvang (City 'too cute) on the coast. We then crossed santa monica, santa barbara, and admired the splendid beaches. sin for the climate freschetto and gray days. Solvang shared by us then moved to santa maria, the entire coast of the big sur (which we have not seen, we found a fog and crazy 'was like driving blind, 2-hour on tight bends and uphill. peccato perche' il big sur and 'a marvel! night after pacific grove (monterey), beautiful! distributed via santa maria, santa cruz and finally arrived in San francisco where we have found to be really cold and windy! City' very pretty with its streets climb the golden gate and majestic mist from escaping. Take the ferry to the island of Alcatraz, it's worth it! shared by San francisco at a time the beautiful park of Yosemite where we have photographed and filmed a small bear and Hundreds of deer!
convenient for traveling without worries that satellite navigation has abandoned us in a difficult time: the machine dry of diesel in the middle of the park of Yosemite in the dark more 'total of the night and at the risk of being attacked by bears .. that panic .. we have not yet come, but without a map we managed to arrive at a service station within the park and we started to breathe.
b & b a coultervile, village of 30 souls hot .. then via Tioga Pass to lone pine, last cowboy country before entering Nevada.