On The Road Again
Yes, it has been a long interregnum in this eight year span of travel blog posting. We're back, with photos of our June trip to Grand Canyon, Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks, and a brief visit to Morro Bay, California. Here was a sunset at Desert View Point with a fingernail moon and evening star.
We weren't alone at The Big Ditch; six million people a year visit.
Then it was on to Kali-forneeah, as the Governator called it. One night in Bakersfield, then on to Sequoia where we camped three nights in the popup, first and last night down low at Potwisha Campground, middle night at Lodgepole higher up in the Sierras. Here's Shannon at a bridge over the Kaweah River near Potwisha.
The size and age of the Sequoias is really hard to grasp. They are the oldest and most massive of living things on the planet. The General Sherman Tree is estimated to be 2,300 to 2,700 years old. Yeah, older than Christianity, perhaps older than the Golden Age of Greece.
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| Even older than I sometimes feel |
The Sherman Tree and the General Grant are very impressive but they are fenced and impossible to approach up close. However, there is a group called the Muir Grove which we hiked to and enjoyed all by ourselves, no other tourists whatsoever.
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| En Route |
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| In Its Spell |
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| A twin, more in the following video |
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| Such Giants |
Then we finished off our adventure with a few days on the coast. We had last visited Morro Bay twenty years ago.
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| The otters are staging a comeback |
We had a nice birthday dinner for Shannon on the water.
Also visited with Lars Morris, an old Durango friend.
The drive home was uneventful, although it was 122 degrees in Needles CA, so we decided not to camp there. (!)
