Predictably, we woke pretty late and after much snoozing around in bed, we presented ourselves in the kitchen where Dan discovered that my stomach was still trying to recover from Half Dome. After feeding me pork chops, I made some eggs and Dan whipped up smoothies that filled us up for the rest of the…

Alarm off at 6:45am, I was up for another shower. Vanessa was up shortly after for her morning routine. When I was ready, I said I’d meet her in the garage and went down to do some more organising with my bags and to put her car back in order. She met me at the…

Surprisingly, I barely slept last night. I had expected to fall straight asleep after falling into my air mattress but instead I tossed and turned all night and by 7:30am, the light of my tent was bright and I was completely awake and starving. While Kathi and Shannon slept, I got some water boiling for…

“Half Dome is unclimbable; a perfectly inaccessible peak which never has been, and never will be, trodden by human foot” – California Geological Survey, 1860s Prologue Rob and I went climbing in the gym on Tuesday and formed a loose plan that maybe we could climb Snake Dike, a 5.7R route that winds up the…

Just as I was halfway through boiling water to make oats for breakfast, I saw a white Sprinter van through the trees coming towards me. Kathi and Shannon warned me they would be early but I didn’t quite know if that meant this early. It was 8am when they parked up in my site and…

I didn’t sleep well at all. In my new sleeping bag I wasn’t warm enough so I kept trying new things until I made myself comfortable. By shoving my old sleeping bag down at my feet my toes stayed relatively warm and with an extra jumper and the sleeping bag done up tight around my…

As we’d talked about the day before, my alarm went off at 6am and I got out of bed groggy. A hot shower (my last for a while) made me feel a little better as I made a quick breakfast and packed all my things away. I was driving to Yosemite and I needed to…

I couldn’t figure out if Vanessa had left when I woke up. Her bag was still in the living room so I assumed she was still at home, but I only saw her when I went to the bathroom and she was on a phone call for work. It had originally been cancelled so she…

Vanessa was up and gone before I’d moved from the couch. I was vaguely aware she was up and about, but think I must have rolled over and blocked all thoughts of getting out of bed. I was surprised to find I’d slept in past 9am. After making myself some breakfast, I set myself up…

I woke up much earlier than the two in the bedroom, but I had an F1 race to watch so I wasn’t bothered! I quietly moved around the apartment and set myself in the living room with my headphones. To my pleasure, the Monza race had been posted onto the Facebook page I follow, but…