California

We spent the night in Crescent City, CA, woke up & headed south to the Redwood Forest. We hiked up South Fork Trail. On the trail we saw this banana slug (probably not the scientific name, but that's what we decided it was).
We stopped at "The Big Tree". From there we drove through Elk Meadow (aptly named)









to Fern Canyon. All we can say about this is "wow"!

We drove thru the Chandelier tree.








Highway 1 was next! The coastal view was amazing.









We stayed on the windy, narrow road until we got to Hwy 128, then we headed across to Hwy 101 again.

On that road we saw some beautiful vineyard country. We stopped in Santa Rosa for an In N Out burger.

It was downhill from there....the bay bridge coupled with night driving, construction all along the way & Oakland freeway traffic was HELLISH!!! If you need any further details about this portion of the trip, you will need to contact Nancie Sawyer, as I have tried to block those memories from my mind. We did make it to our hotel near the Oakland airport, so I guess all's well that ends well!!