Hi Mark,

My wife and I drove the exact route in late May last year. We had planned to drive thru Tioga pass but unfortunately opened the road very late last year after the winter. We drove instead through the Sonora pass and for the first night after SF we stopped in Lee Vining. The next morning we drove to Bodie (we did not know about the rule for rental cars, that you could not drive on gravel road) and spent a half day in the park. Then we drove to Death Valley and spent the next night in Stovepipe Wells and the next morning we headed to Las Vegas via Bad Water. It was good day trips and a excellent route.

Br
Pelle
Sweden