Sunday, February 12, 2017

Day 46 of Overseas Trip 2016

In the early morning of Day 46, I went to Stockton Amtrak Station. After 30 minutes wait, the train, that I am waiting for, came. It brought me to Merced station.

At Merced station, there is a public bus that bring you to Yosemite National Park.

I took this picture while the bus arrive at bus stop. I am not yet in Yosemite National Park.






Ah, I notice that the road, leading to Yosemite National Park, was blocked by rocks.

Makeshift bridge was built, creating detour.



Finally, I arrived Yosemite National Park. The nature is beautiful sight to look at.






It is my bus stop as I can leave my bag to my accommodation. I was very excited to start my hiking journey in Yosemite National Park.





Gah, the rain was beginning to pour. I had umbrella with me. I decided to ride out the rain with my umbrella.






Waterfall at Lower Yosemite Fall! Water being crashing on the ground is heard from that waterfall.






I decide to take ante up by hiking Upper Yosemite Falls.







Gosh, it is very tough hiking. I am already panting after 1 hour climbing up.

I could understand when I saw a old gentleman was sitting on the rock, catching up his own breath.


I preserved and saw this aerial view. The picture seems to be good except the bottom right. Nevertheless, it is good picture.





About 3 - 4 hours hiking, I went down since it is difficult to know whether I actually complete the Upper Yosemite Fall trail.





It is the first beautiful sight I saw when the bus, I was in earlier, was about to enter Yosemite National Park.

With no breakfast and lunch, I had a huge dinner, eating large size pizza.

That is it! Time to sleep!





End of Day 46.

Movies

Hacksaw Ridge (Hollywood Movie 2016)
Synopsis:
It is based on real life story. A religious guy decided to enlist to the army. During the training, he don't want to learn how to use guns. He insisted that he will train anything except guns. Because of that, he actually won the medal of honour of saving a lot of people during the Okinawa invasion in World War 2. How did he do it?
Rating: 9/10
Remark: It is one of the best world war 2 theme movies by far.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (Hollywood Movie 2016)
Synopsis:
Jack Reacher has to come back to save the army lady who was wrongly charged in the army. He knew it. Way too suspicious! How will he save her?
Rating: 8/10
Remark: Good show. It performs exactly what you would expect.

USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (Hollywood Movie 2016)
Synopsis:
USS Indianapolis was selected to carry atomic bomb secretly from USA to Philippines. Nobody, including the captain of that ship, knew it except the assigned soldiers.

After successful mission completion, the ship was assigned to ship to another island. Unfortunately, the ship has no support that protect it from submarine. Japanese submarine spotted it. What happened next?
Rating: 8/10
Remark: Fine movie. I loved the last dialogue after the military court.


Tony Del Piero wrote and posted at at 2:18 pm