It's Veteran's day weekend, and we're spending our three days poking around Yosemite and are spending our two nights at a perfect little hostel called the Yosemite Bug. It's off of highway 140 nearish to the park, and I can't recommend the place enough. It's picturesque, quiet, friendly, and at least in the off season, pretty cheap. Great food and a warm fire at the lodge, complete with a lovable dog and cat wandering the premises. Every so often the dog, Yin Yang, will roll over on his back and patiently wait for his belly to be rubbed. The cat's taken a more direct approach and just hopped straight into our laps. Careful, like Pfeiffer, she drools when she very happy.

Tomorrow, we'll be heading into Yosemite park and doing some day hiking. We haven't chosen a particular trail yet, but last time we were here with my brother we hiked up past Vernal falls on the Mist trail. It's autumn right now, so the waterfalls aren't likely to be so extrodinary as then -- maybe this time we'll see what other bits of spectacular this place can offer up besides flowing or falling rivers. Half dome is an unlikely destination as the ladder has already been taken down for the year. Climbing to the very top isn't necessary to make it an amazing hike, of course, but it's far less climatic to end the trip at the Saddle.

Enough writing for now. Heading to bed and will decide our destination in the morning.