Big Trees

September 23, 2008
Morning greeted us with sunshine again with cool temps and a breeze off the Pacific. We decided to stop in the Redwood Forest and take a little time there so we pretty much humped it to get through there to Redding, CA where we stopped for the night. There is so much out here that it is really had to describe. The forests give way to crashing waves of the Pacific and you go from the Tsunami Warning areas next to the beaches to heights of 3,000 feet with breathtaking views of the mountains and the Pacific. We stopped at a museum in the Redwood Forest and I couldn’t resist taking this picture of Paul Bunyan and Babe. The trees were much taller than Paul and as you can see John standing by his boot, he’s no little pipsqueak. It took us a while to cross the mountains to Redding and we have some errands to run in the a.m. so we will take the leisurely drive down to Sacramento tomorrow. We are so excited that we are going to see at least some of the California Nixes!
One more sidenote. Everything out here is so pristine and aside for the occasional tiny town, the mountains are all as wild as they were when first discovered.