The redwoods we definitetly want to go to. San Fran is on my top 3 places I want to go to, but it's a bit far for this trip. Also this trip is now up in the air... but I may do this around my birthday.
I HIGHLY recommend Yosemite NP! One of the best vacations of my life! If you're interested, I can give you info on a great airbnb. During that trip, we also stayed in a cabin @ St. Orres! What a cool place! Buyer beware: No TV's nor wifi internet. Perfect! http://www.saintorres.com/
Yosemite closed on Dec 7th...my son just worked the power lines there and said it looks like a war zone....I think people have fond memories but our parks got pretty wiped out in the last two summer forest fire seasons...our parks in the west are not in traveling or visiting conditiona as is...even the road from Bend to Eugene looks like a war zone....logs piled on the mountainsides and burned out. We lost a ton of Redwood trees....gone for good..many of those big ones you drove through in Northern Cal are no longer there..
Oh crap, I think the redwoods are the most beautiful sights on Earth. I love to look at them more than the Grand Canyon, Vista House on a clear summer day or Yellowstone. They are or were the most beautiful thing in North or South America, perhaps in the world. Some redwoods were here when Christ was born.
I have one near the entrance to my driveway...it's healthy and doing well...breaks my heart that those ancient trees I saw as a 10 year old in 1964 for the first time are gone....nature will bounce back but those old majestic trees were special
When I was 8 months old and our family was relocating from Atlanta, Decatur, Georgia to Oswego, Oregon we drove through the redwoods and actually drove our car through a redwood tree that had a gap bored out that was big enough for the car but smaller than the diameter of the base of the tree. Yes, it was still a living tree. I think it finally got destroyed by a lightening strike 10 or 20 years ago. When I got married the first time sometime in June of 1971 we drove to San Francisco and I once again drove through that tree.
Maybe, but the fact that he emerged from it as a baby and entered it when he got married makes me think vagina. Of course, practically everything makes me think vagina, so maybe that doesn't mean so much. barfo
in my father's case, no, in my case, yes, only twice, I drove through that damned tree again on my honeymoon with my second wife. What does it mean when I go through three times, twice as an adult? Okay, okay, I love vaginas especially large ones, so sue me.
