BeLight at a Road Trip
Yosemite National Park
We started our 3-day journey with the Yosemite National Park. Yosemite National Park is a
setting so spectacular and awe-inspiring that it is often referred to as the “Crown
Jewel” of the National Park System. Over millions of years, earthquakes, glaciers
and other forces of nature have left their indelible footprints on Yosemite's landscape.
Evidence of these forces is still visible today in towering granite cliffs, thundering
waterfalls, steep mountains and deep alpine lakes.
Yosemite Falls (Upper, 1,430 ft.; Middle,
675 ft.; Lower, 320 ft.) is one of the tallest in North America and fifth highest in the
world with a total drop of 2,425 feet.
Death Valley
The next stop was the Death Valley National Park - a superlative desert of streaming sand dunes,
snow-capped mountains, multicolored rock layers, water-fluted canyons and three million acres
of stone wilderness. It is home to the plants and animals unique to the harshest deserts.
You are welcome to see the pictures of the lonely Eurika Dune in the heart
of the desert, a volcano crater, the Racetrack (a dry lake bed with the unique moving stones)
and Badwater (a basin noted as the lowest point in North America and the second lowest point
on Earth, with an elevation of 282 feet (86 m) below sea level).
Las Vegas
A short visit to Las Vegas was extremely bright and colorful. Life there is crazy from dusk
till dawn, with crowds of people wandering from one casino to another. By the way one of our
marketing guys was lucky to win $1300 there.
Grand Canyon
The last destination was Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is more than a great chasm carved over
millennia through the rocks of the Colorado Plateau. Due to the winter season we weren't able
to get down into the Canyon, which is a real pity as the nature there is truly grand and
the view is just breathtaking.
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