Western Journey continued III

Visalia is very close to Sequoia NP, which was our next destination. We spent a good part of the day driving through the park and looking at big trees. We took a hike down to the General Sherman tree. Sequoias are weird trees. General Sherman is dead at the top, but keeps on growing around. According to the park, the General adds the equivalent of a whole tree every year. I wondered--what kind and size of tree, but there was no one to ask. Afterwards we drove to Yosemite and toured from the south entrance to the valley. We spent the night at an inferior lodge associated with the NP. Worst room of our trip.













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Western Journey Continued II

The third day was driving with no sights--from St. George Utah to Visalia CA on the outskirts of Sequoia NP. Ugly country. We did stop at an urgent care in Bakersfield to get Susan's eye looked at. She abraded her eye with one of her eye droppers. The clinic didn't see anything serious, but prescribed an antibiotic for safety's sake. She's much better now.


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Western Journey Continued

My posts have to be shorter because the app I'm using can't handle very may pictures even when I reduce their size.

From Grand Canyon, we headed north to Zion National Park. Very red. Much more personal than GCNP. You're a lot closer to the scenery. We got lucky as we entered the park--we saw a herd of sheep. We took a walk through the park as the canyon narrowed just as the sun set.
















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Western Journey

We're now half way through our trip. It's Susan's birthday. We will celebrate tonight at a nice restaurant in Ashland (where my sister Becky lives). Then tomorrow we'll take a tour of Oregon wineries. Becky has arranged for a driver so we won't have to worry about our consumption. There are an amazing number of wineries close by. We have tried to pick some good ones.

So far our trip has taken us from Georgetown through Clovis, NM to Flagstaff and our first NP stop at the Grand Canyon. That has been our only bad weather day. It rained and drizzled on and off so the pictures the first day aren't very good. The weather was better the second day as we left the park.















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