Thursday--We awoke in the lush redwood forests. I want to stay here a month! Everything smells so great. Oxygen overload. Last night we grilled turkey burgers and made s'mores around our campfire. This morning Dug made pancakes for us then we hiked over to see our new friends. It was amazing to find people so similar to us in an otherwise empty camp ground. They shared bacon with Sage, the bacon monster, and chocolate chip pancakes with Dugan who'd already eaten 12 silver dollar pancakes earlier!
We hiked a half mile trail which included trees you could literally walk into and through and the mother and father trees of big basin. The adults were in awe and the kids alternated between joy, boredom, pain, hunger, general snarkyness and exhaustion. It was fun for us to have other parents of a preschooler to chuckle with as we gently made fun of the kids moods.
At 3pm we hit the road to finally head out of California on the first major drive of our trip--11 hours to Vegas. We intended to spend the most time on the west coast and western states, but 9 days out of 17, we have only driven 200 miles and have over 35 hours of drive time to go!! The plan is to get most of the way to Vegas tonight while the kids sleep. We'll do the last few hours tomorrow and then spend the day and night in Vegas relaxing.
Sat (my 40th b-day) we'll leave early and spend the night in Sedona. April 1st/2nd we'll try to visit Pop Pop/Ducky (Dug's Dad)and Jan/ Dick (my Aunt/Uncle) in Scottsdale and Tempe, AZ. We're going to save Grand Canyon, De Chelly and Taos for when the kids are older. They were having such a great time on the beach, we didn't want to drag them away from CA, and most of the ruins, petroglyphs, etc are at least 3 miles in and Sage would never make it walking steep canyons paths at 3. Hopefully we'll have this trip paid off in another 6 years and the kids will be old enough and we won't yet be TOO old. The new plan is to head for route 40 and make a bee line for Chicago, with scenic stops along the way. We have to be back Fri. the 6th.
The kids are traveling great! We got them backpacks of road trip games, kids road atlas sticker books and art supplies from Du's recent b-day. Bathroom on board helps as much as we'd hoped. Some of the Santa Cruz to Vegas drive was beautiful with sensual,rolling hills. We road through miles of toy train looking farms in tree dotted hills and pristine, cobalt lakes. Then came the stink-air! Pew. Miles of manure orchards and fermenting fields. Made me long for the fresh, fragrant red woods. Around 11pm we passed Tehachapi, CA where Grandma Eloise was born!! If it wasn't so late and the kids weren't asleep, we would have stopped there for a photo at least.
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We hiked a half mile trail which included trees you could literally walk into and through and the mother and father trees of big basin. The adults were in awe and the kids alternated between joy, boredom, pain, hunger, general snarkyness and exhaustion. It was fun for us to have other parents of a preschooler to chuckle with as we gently made fun of the kids moods.
At 3pm we hit the road to finally head out of California on the first major drive of our trip--11 hours to Vegas. We intended to spend the most time on the west coast and western states, but 9 days out of 17, we have only driven 200 miles and have over 35 hours of drive time to go!! The plan is to get most of the way to Vegas tonight while the kids sleep. We'll do the last few hours tomorrow and then spend the day and night in Vegas relaxing.
Sat (my 40th b-day) we'll leave early and spend the night in Sedona. April 1st/2nd we'll try to visit Pop Pop/Ducky (Dug's Dad)and Jan/ Dick (my Aunt/Uncle) in Scottsdale and Tempe, AZ. We're going to save Grand Canyon, De Chelly and Taos for when the kids are older. They were having such a great time on the beach, we didn't want to drag them away from CA, and most of the ruins, petroglyphs, etc are at least 3 miles in and Sage would never make it walking steep canyons paths at 3. Hopefully we'll have this trip paid off in another 6 years and the kids will be old enough and we won't yet be TOO old. The new plan is to head for route 40 and make a bee line for Chicago, with scenic stops along the way. We have to be back Fri. the 6th.
The kids are traveling great! We got them backpacks of road trip games, kids road atlas sticker books and art supplies from Du's recent b-day. Bathroom on board helps as much as we'd hoped. Some of the Santa Cruz to Vegas drive was beautiful with sensual,rolling hills. We road through miles of toy train looking farms in tree dotted hills and pristine, cobalt lakes. Then came the stink-air! Pew. Miles of manure orchards and fermenting fields. Made me long for the fresh, fragrant red woods. Around 11pm we passed Tehachapi, CA where Grandma Eloise was born!! If it wasn't so late and the kids weren't asleep, we would have stopped there for a photo at least.
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