RFTP 3 B "Common Heard Questions"

To further emphasize the true meaning of the word touron, I have this list of things that I have been personally asked, things that have been listed on comment cards, and other crazy stuff. These are all true. You just can't make this stuff up.

"How much cement did it take to make Half-Dome?" (Asked while standing in Curry Village parking lot).

"My wife and I were married yesterday and we are up here on our honeymoon. We think that it would be a cool thing if you could send a deer by our door when we wake up." (Told to Curry Village Hotel).

"What time do let the animals out in the morning/evening?" (Asked all over the valley).

"What time do they shut the waterfalls off at night?" (Asked in Yosemite Village Hotel).

"There are too many bugs and spiders in the forests/trees. Why can't you just spray this valley down and kill them?" (Asked on Ahwahnee Hotel comment card).

"We drove an hour and a half, from the valley, to see Tuolumne Meadows. This is all there is? Just a big empty field with a river in it? There is no amusement park? No rides?" (Asked at Tuolumne Store).

"Why don't they install an escalator from Curry Village to Glacier Point?" (Asked at Glacier Point Gift Store).

And the last example

"Seventeen miles to the top of Half Dome and then we come back that distance? Why don't you install a gondola to take people from Curry Village to the top? It would save more time than walking." (Said in the Mountain Shop).