Friday Travel Ticker: Yosemite road opens

The Glacier Point Road in Yosemite National Park opens for the season Friday at 5 p.m. There will be limited visitor services available at Glacier Point. Tioga Road will remain closed. For road and weather information, call (209) 372-0200 . . . . Another sign of summer: $55,000 will be up for grabs at the Bass Lake Fishing Derby May 5 and 6, at the lake 20 minutes south of the Highway 41 entrance to Yosemite. For info, go to www.YosemiteThisYear.com/basslake . . . . Quail Lodge Golf Club in Carmel is holding the fourth annual Quail Motorcycle Gathering, where motorcycle owners and collectors can buy and sell bikes. The outdoor event takes place May 5 at the golf club . . . .Yucaipa says its blossoms are in full bloom for its 24th annual Apple Blossom Fest this weekend, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The fest includes carriage rides, a cider press and petting zoo (909) 797-1005 . . . .Watch classic movies under the stars in Tucson this summer, at Cinema La Placita. The open-air cinema’s 13th season begins May 3 with the 1983 teen movie “Valley Girl,” the Hitchcock thriller “Shadow of a Doubt,” and the kid’s classic “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.” (520) 326-5282 . . . . Times travel writer Christopher Reynolds discusses our never-ending fascination with the Titanic at the Times Festival of Books, Sunday at 1:15 p.m., at the Times Pavilion at USC. . . . Travel quote of the day: “Most of my treasured memories of travel are recollections of sitting.” – (Robert Thomas Allen)