July 17, 2017 Today we drove to the California coast. We stopped in Redding for lunch and gas and it was 99 degrees at noon. There was a nice lake we stopped and put our toes in, Whiskey town lake. When we got to the coast it was barely 70 degrees. I had class so…
July 15, 2017 We finally got to Lassen a day late but eager to explore the park. When we got to the visitor center we found out that the road through the park was closed. This cancelled a few hikes we wanted to do but one bug one we could still do. We drove to…
July 14, 2017 We were supposed to drive to Lassen today but that didn’t happen. Last night when we left Yosemite we heard a grinding in our brakes. We hoped it was a rock but it wasn’t. We needed two new brakes and rotors. $550 and six hours later we did not have enough time…
July 9 and 10, 2017 We woke up and had a delicious free breakfast in our hotel and headed out. It took a few hours but we finally started heading up the mountains. We gained about 7,000 feet on the road up to the park. We stopped at the King’s Canyon visitor center to buy…
July 8, 2017 Today was a very long and very hot drive. Before I complain about that I’ll tell you about our return trip to Crater Lake National Park. We went last April and it was covered in about 15 feet of snow. We walked around and got some re-created pictures from when we came…
On our way up eastern California we made a quick stop at Lassen Volcanic National Park. When we got there we realized that the park doesn’t typically open until the summer time. It was still about 15 feet under snow. The visitor center was open and we explored that but that was about as far…
April 7, 2016 After spending two days in Las Vegas we made our way back up to Seattle. Our first stop was Death Valley National Park. We were quick to drive through it but not before stopping at the sand dunes and the visitor center. We climbed to the top of one of the sand…
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