Yosemite and San Fran

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No time for writing. Photos of the city and beach of of San Fransisco, photos of wilderness are Yosemite. San Fran was crazy but cool, Yosemite was beautiful but so filled with people that it was like Disney Land. Especially after the quiet beauty of Sequoia, Yosemite was a bit over populated. There were some rangers who were very bored of people talking about bears, and we got to see a little 1 year old bear at Crane Flat, which apparently the bear is at every day. Bears leave thier mammas at about 1 year, so he was just hanging out, eating grass and taking little bear naps. Matt and I hung out and watched the bear nap, and the other people that had been around when the bear was awake left. But it was weird, as soon as he woke up the was a "bear jam" of people. Just people randomly showed up, Italians and a polish family and American alike to gawk at the bear. If you look closely at the ranger photo, one of them is holding a tranq. gun... just in case.
In San Francisco, things got a bit nutty. There were 3 festivals going on simultaneously, all around the hostel where we were trying to stay. It took us 3 hours of fooling around to find a safe place to park our car, which is packed full with goodies. It was worth it though, the hostel, called the "green tortoise" was one of the coolest hostels I've stayed at, and was a good hostel for Matt's first one. Very chill and layed back. I went out to a queer dance party that night, as it was a Saturday night, and it was very cool and a little wild. The music was pretty good, except for some annoying songs involving "Bunny and Lategra" and "Cars that go vroom" that I could've gone without.
The next day was a festival at Haight and Ashbury, the famous hippie streets that were once home to the Grateful Dead, and the boring pic of the house is of their old house. We tried to find Janis Joplin's house, to no avail.
The festival was cool, and reminiscent of the festivals we are accustomed too. That's where we met the guy with the cool railroad tracks tattoos pictured, and the dancing cross dressers. We got free tea at a "tea party" for peace. "Free Unvirtual Tea Party" was it's official name. A woman also gave me a branch of her Jasmine bush to put in my hair, and that is also pictured.
We have so far been able to do everything we had wanted to do, we got to swim in the ocean North of San Fransisco. Which was freezing but wonderful. And we got a flat tire!!! (Oh wait... we may have not WANTED that....) So anyways, we gotta hit the road so peace love and chicken grease, enjoy the photos. ENJOY THEM!