A slightly sad start to the day as we packed up and waved goodbye to Emma, Eve and Nathaniel. We picked up supplies at the local Trader Joe's supermarket (including our first Twinky for morning tea)...
...and headed West across the mountains. We drove through farmland and orchards, past a pick up truck with its load on fire (!) and through a steep mountain pass to the San Luis reservoir, where we stopped for sandwiches. The reservoir was really low - California is in drought. Thomas was thrilled to discover that there were rattlesnakes in the area, but sadly we couldn't find one. We drove on through the amazingly flat San Joaquin Valley, past nut and fruit trees and wheat fields until the Sierra Nevada mountains began to loom on the horizon. We twisted through the mountains to El Portal and checked into our hotel, which sits overlooking the Merced River. We had a splash in the heated pool, pizza for dinner and went to sleep to the sound of the rapids flowing with snow melt.
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