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Yosemite National Park Firefall

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Our 4 ½ day trip is finally over. We left from Florida to go to Yosemite National Park in California. Let me just say we beat the license plate game about 10 times and you have no idea how hard it was to find a New York license plate. I heard somewhere that one of the park’s most famous attractions at one point was a waterfall of fire and I wanted to come here and see if it was still here, too bad it’s not though.The firefall was a summer event that started in 1872 and continued for almost a

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