Anyways.
Today was family fun day and we decided to go on a little road trip to very very Northern California (near Eureka) to see the giant redwoods. There are redwoods down here where we live, but they aren't the gigantic drive-your-car-through redwoods that are up north.
So after a 3 hour road trip, we arrived at the world famous Avenue of the Giants, a 30 mile stretch of road carved right through the middle of the redwood forest, complete with an "auto tour" map and several places to stop and explore the woods on walking trails.
Coming from the Pacific Northwest, I know trees. Walking through the woods isn't like a blow your mind kind of thing for me. But these trees are effing big. Hugely big. And walking through an entire forest of stupid big trees makes you suddenly wonder if you didn't accidentally stand in front of a shrinking machine and are now in a real life reenactment of Honey I Shrunk The Kids.
We drove through the Avenue and stopped at several random places and walked around in the woods, climbing (yes climbing) on top of fallen redwoods and inside (yes, inside) live ones. We found a calm part of the Eel River and the kids waded in and threw rocks for an hour and then we'd go and find another part of the woods to explore. Once we were satisfied at the Avenue of the Giants, we headed south towards home, but stopped at the famous Chandelier Tree, paid five bucks and drove our car through it. The kids kept their heads out the sunroof while we drove through it, though the height of our SUV caused them to have to duck a little.
Super fun day, lots of memories, another California bucket list check off.
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| Our truck parked inside a 2 thousand year old tree. No big deal. |
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