Stanislaus National Forest

Another day, another personal alarm service: today in the morning a McDonald's worker knocked on our window, saying that we are not allowed to park overnight. I found an interesting place to have a shower in Mi-Wuk, we absolutely didn't know if it even existed.
Once we wanted to leave, our car had an engine warn signal, check oil level. So we went to Schwab Tires (as we already stole some WiFi from them at a random petrol station in Wyoming, we already knew them), but they only do tires, so we went to a repair shop, where we got our issue fixed immediately. So now, the highlight of the day: the shower. It was in the back of a laundromat, quite hidden, with a bear statue. You got 36 seconds of hot water for a quarter, a very cool system. It even had a handheld showerhead, not so common here. We even had WiFi at the laundry, so we had breakfast there. Then we drove to Pinecrest, and hiked around the Pinecrest Lake, unfortunately almost completely dry, we could walk on the bottom of the lake, where we saw the trunks from before the dam was built. We had a small detour to Cloe's Bath, a nice lake with a waterfall. Then we walked along an railroad till it got dark. So we drove back to Sonora, where we stayed at the night before, had dinner and a few beers, and made some friends in the bar. They recommended us a bar, where "you can get wasted, buy your bait and a gun. I'd love to say there are many places like that, but unfortunately there are not many left."
After getting some recommendations for SF, (and most importantly, many warnings) and being told not to go to Reno, we looked for another place to park for the night. We didn't have many options, and as it was our last night sleeping in the car, we wanted something special. The clerk was very nice at the petrol station, we had WiFi and music during the whole night, and we weren't woken up.Read more