Yosemite is Nature's supermodel

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Originally uploaded by crush with eyeliner

you can't take a bad picture when you're in the middle of such perfect, perfect wilderness.

I'm back, and there are stories to tell (not all of them interesting). To recap:

it almost didn't happen, it did happen, I wasn't eaten by a bear, I fell into a river, there was much hiking and climbing up steep mountains, amazing waterfalls, I went rafting into the middle of a turf war, there were lots of European, Japanese, Korean, and Indian tourists in Yosemite, small sticky children are cute all the world over (I still don't want any), chipmunks are surprisingly tiny, so bad it's almost good music the whole way through (at one point, I am not ashamed to admit that the entire van was singing along to Larger than Life by the Backstreet Boys), my weird flu thing got worse, fell asleep through most of Fresno, though there was a nice little park we went to, and enormous waterfowl - are ducks/geese/swans supposed to be that large? Steroids in the water, perhaps?

And ghost stories and cheesy riddles in the van and much bonding with nature.

And I fell into a river!