Chuck is officially on summer break (he teaches high school), and while I do not get the summer off, I have managed to accrue 90+ hours of sick time over the past year, so I decided I felt a sickness coming on (that I did not want to subject my patients to) and we spent last week
galavanting through central California. We started out with a trip to
Sequoia National Park, we left Monday morning and were in the
Giant Forest by early afternoon.
Our first stop was the
General Sherman Tree which is officially the biggest living thing on Earth! It is hard to see the perspective because we weren't allowed to get up close to the trunk but we hiked through the grove of giant sequoias surrounding it and got a few more pictures to give you a better idea:
Before we could leave the park, we had to investigate some steam we had seen coming out from under the hood of the car. Chuck and I had seen the steam upon arrival but were too excited to check it out right away. It turned out that the coolant container had cracked on the drive up, but it was quickly (and successfully) patched with some hot pink duct tape - a remedy that got us through the next three days and all the way back to LA :)
While planning the trip, we decided that lugging all of our food and belongings on our backs through bear country did not sound like fun so we left the park to check into our
cabin! It was pretty rustic (no internet or TV and solar power only) but worked out very well, my favorite part was that we had our very own swimming hole which, in my haste to get to, I forgot to take pictures of. The water was beautiful and I'm sure we would have visited it many more times if not for the rattlesnake that we met on the trail coming back to our cabin.
Tuesday morning, on the recommendation of the owners of our cabin, we drove to a different part of the park called Mineral King, where we set off on a seven mile hike to Eagle Lake. We had slept in and underestimated the drive (we went slow because we were nervous about the coolant situation) so we didn't get started until about 12:30 but we spent the next five hours on the prettiest trail I have ever seen. It was a hard hike but I think you'll agree from the pictures that it was definitely worth it.
We left the cabin Wednesday morning and started the journey home. This was Chuck's half of the trip to plan, he suggested that instead of going straight back, we should take our time and stop at some wineries along the way. We made it to three while driving through Paso Robles the first day before stopping at a bed and breakfast in a very cool town called San Luis Obispo (SLO) for the night. Thursday morning, after doing a bit more exploring in SLO we stopped at three more wineries on our way to Santa Barbara where we met up with our friend Pam and her roommate Aaron for two more wineries (I was pretty saturated by this point), a couple games of beach volleyball and dinner before heading back to LA.
Our first stop was the General Sherman Tree which is officially the biggest living thing on Earth! It is hard to see the perspective because we weren't allowed to get up close to the trunk but we hiked through the grove of giant sequoias surrounding it and got a few more pictures to give you a better idea:
Before we could leave the park, we had to investigate some steam we had seen coming out from under the hood of the car. Chuck and I had seen the steam upon arrival but were too excited to check it out right away. It turned out that the coolant container had cracked on the drive up, but it was quickly (and successfully) patched with some hot pink duct tape - a remedy that got us through the next three days and all the way back to LA :)
While planning the trip, we decided that lugging all of our food and belongings on our backs through bear country did not sound like fun so we left the park to check into our cabin! It was pretty rustic (no internet or TV and solar power only) but worked out very well, my favorite part was that we had our very own swimming hole which, in my haste to get to, I forgot to take pictures of. The water was beautiful and I'm sure we would have visited it many more times if not for the rattlesnake that we met on the trail coming back to our cabin.
Tuesday morning, on the recommendation of the owners of our cabin, we drove to a different part of the park called Mineral King, where we set off on a seven mile hike to Eagle Lake. We had slept in and underestimated the drive (we went slow because we were nervous about the coolant situation) so we didn't get started until about 12:30 but we spent the next five hours on the prettiest trail I have ever seen. It was a hard hike but I think you'll agree from the pictures that it was definitely worth it.
We left the cabin Wednesday morning and started the journey home. This was Chuck's half of the trip to plan, he suggested that instead of going straight back, we should take our time and stop at some wineries along the way. We made it to three while driving through Paso Robles the first day before stopping at a bed and breakfast in a very cool town called San Luis Obispo (SLO) for the night. Thursday morning, after doing a bit more exploring in SLO we stopped at three more wineries on our way to Santa Barbara where we met up with our friend Pam and her roommate Aaron for two more wineries (I was pretty saturated by this point), a couple games of beach volleyball and dinner before heading back to LA.
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