new address and a little history

I had some time to kill this morning and so I spent a couple of hours acting like a tourist. I went to the Ansel Adams gallery and the visitors center and an indian village. While at the Indian village I found out what YOsemite and Ahwahnee mean... I know you have just been dying to know... :) Ahwahnee, which is the name of the hotel where I am going to work means "large mouth", the Indian tribe that used to live in the valley named it that because of the deep V shaped crevice that makes up the valley. The INdians called themselves ahwahneechi, which means "people of the Ahwahnee". Now the other Indians who lived in the Northern part of the Sierras called these Indians Yosemite which means... pause for dramatic effect... "some of them are killers" How's that for a name... its hard to think there was ever much violence going on here.
If any of you ever get a chance to look up JOhn Muir on google or something, you should. He's one of the people who have worked hard to preserve the park and he is also the founder of the Sierra Club. There's a trail here that 's named after him that is more than 300 miles long.... wow, don't think I'll be doing that any time soon.

I did get a post office box here in the park, so all you do is add
Callie Pool
P.O.Box 1097
Yosemite, CA ( and then the zip code which I have posted on a previous post)

I should be able to recieve mail there, if not, it just goes to general delivery and I"ll still receive it.

Welll I'm glad I could enlighten you on the history of the park... actually it just shows how seriously ready I am to be working...