Thelma & Louise ...Eat Your Heart Out! ; Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon Only Drove Through Four States: Sharon Miney Bagged 27 in 28 Days... Armed Only with Vbf, Car, Credit Card - and a Case of Napa Valley's Finest the Mounted Cop Quipped: We May Need to Detain You Two Ladies for Questioning [Eire Region]

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If it comes to it, we can always sleep in the car...' The voice of my friend Karen. That didn't sound so terrible, I reasoned. Our rented Ford was certainly roomy enough. But what about Yosemite's infamous bears? I'd heard they routinely broke into parked cars in search of a snack, lured by the scent of a carelessly discarded chocolate wrapper within - or a tasty tourist... 'But I'm sure we won't need to,' she added, not entirely convincingly, even as I double-checked the booking confirmation that announced check-in closed at 8pm.

It was already nine and we were still 100 miles from the park, having frittered most of the day away touring the Napa Valley's wineries. Still, the melodious clinking that occasionally emanated from the boot - thanks to a dozen bottles of award-winning wine from Artesa winery - was a comforting reminder we would never need to trouble a roadside 'liquor store'. But wait - did bears like grapes, or wine for that matter?

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Thelma & Louise ...Eat Your Heart Out! ; Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon Only Drove Through Four States: Sharon Miney Bagged 27 in 28 Days... Armed Only with Vbf, Car, Credit Card - and a Case of Napa Valley's Finest the Mounted Cop Quipped: We May Need to Detain You Two Ladies for Questioning [Eire Region]

Undaunted, we pressed on, San Francisco already a blur in our memories and a mere blip on a 6,000-mile odyssey that would take us from California to New York City - an undertaking to make Thelma and Louise's little jaunt through the Southwest look tame by comparison. We had four weeks to complete our crosscontinental caper, plenty of time, we'd thought, to see all we wanted to see.

Alas, given our indisciplined tourist giddiness, that was proving to be any attraction on the map within 100 miles - meteorite craters, Indian settlements, comically shaped rocks... Now, as the freeway gave ...

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