Back in September, I had planned a trip up through the Sierra National Parks, with a specific goal to visit the newly-refurbished Mariposa Grove in Yosemite NP, followed by a night in Sacramento (I have an open invitation to sleep on a couch there (that couch is so comfortable as a bed that I have offered to buy it from my kids)), and the next day drive south down along the newly-refurbished Highway 1 through Big Sur. Then my driving license was suspended for a while, and now that I have it back Mariposa Grove is locked up because of the shutdown. I'm looking for alternatives, but all of them require betting on an end to the shutdown.