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It looks pretty cool. Old timey roughing it. I'd imagine you don't need ac this time of year?
Do POCs hike and camp out?
BTW, it's good for kids. Lots of kids around, and not that much trouble they can get into.
At first I couldn't find any rooms in Yosemite itself, but then ran across this place on Trip Advisor, and noticed there was still a room available for about $180/night, which is cheap for a hotel in the park.
There's definitely some cultural line you cross when you go between urban to rural areas.
BTW, while I was there, I met a Canadian policeman from Vancouver who thought the truckers' peaceful protest was somehow terrorism. He just regurgitated the proven-false allegations of Nazis and violence.
He did not seem at all disturbed by the fact that peaceful protest against government policies is now harshly punished in Canada.
It's a strange dynamic having a black kid in a rural area.
At first I couldn't find any rooms in Yosemite itself, but then ran across this place on Trip Advisor, and noticed there was still a room available for about $180/night, which is cheap for a hotel in the park. Then I found out why it was available - no bathroom in the room. And the majority of rooms here have no bathroom because that's how they were built and there is no place to put them now.
But it's been great! I love this place. Built in 1876, with more buildings added later, but still all of them old. Rooms are small. There's no TV, no AC, no fridge, no elevator, no phone in the room, and no cell signal. There is wifi in the lobby, not in most rooms, but we got lucky that our room is in the old main building, so I can get wifi. In the evening it's really slow, probably because of people attempting to stream movies, but OK. Our room has a very high ceiling and a ceiling fan. Bathroom and showers require a trip outside on the second floor porch, but are clean.
It's nice how old it is, even if things are a little frayed and some of the paint is chipped. They give you a real metal key for your room. There was an occasional radiator ding noise at night, but that went away when we turned off the radiator, which we don't need anyway. I don't think I've heard any airplanes go by, which is also nice.
Most people are out hiking at the moment, and in the evening people sit on impressive veranda drinking and reading. It's like old times. Pretty quiet, though the place creaks at night as people walk around. There's a grand old dining room, and the food is good and not horribly expensive.
I'm enjoying just spacing out and looking at things and reading. I recommend the place if you and whoever you go with can take being rather removed from modernity for a while.
Took this picture this morning after most people had left to go hiking: