Shrimpbox
Gold Member
Our country is so physically hardy and rewarding that it becomes a spiritual journey to travel. Taking your family along just engraves a shared experience into your personal history.
We started in San Jose. Dry, too many people, and a whole lot of diversity. Our Sikh cab driver could not speak English nor could he obey the speed limit. Cab was a hybrid SUVs which was pretty cool. It is amazing how a lack of water turns everything ugly. Met with a relative, had a subpar lunch but warm visit, you know the kind of relative you like but might only see once every ten years. He's getting old. Took 280 to 19 north and bumper to bumper traffic all the way to golden gate. China town was big. No way I could live here. Temps sure beat that 95 and humidity we left in Florida. Golden Gate Bridge was beginning of awesomeness. Such a majestic symbol of our country when we were a can do nation. One of our nations pyramids. The traffic for 60 miles north of San Fran was unbearable. Stop and go for no obvious reason. Let me outta here. Wine country finally wore the only green we had seen so far. Traffic thinned and you started wondering how could we have gotten so rural so fast. You can tell the hills are trying hard to grow up to be mountains. Driving hard for the redwoods after the worst plane flight in memory and a poor nights sleep and a ninety year old mother in law trying hard to be a trooper. Almost didn't find a place to stay because a three day reggae festival in humboldt county had sucked all the rooms out of circulation. Whew the second hand smoke. Coastal redwoods are the tallest living organisms in the world. They are able to grow so straight because they have three times as many chromosomes as a normal tree and they can make their branches grow on which ever side will keep the tree growing straight. Ginormous. Their effect is like getting a mind massage. Cabins finally came into view and my ass thanked,the rest of my body profusely for its release. Cool night air, time change, and exhaustion finally overwhelmed my consciousness.
Next: No where to stay!
We started in San Jose. Dry, too many people, and a whole lot of diversity. Our Sikh cab driver could not speak English nor could he obey the speed limit. Cab was a hybrid SUVs which was pretty cool. It is amazing how a lack of water turns everything ugly. Met with a relative, had a subpar lunch but warm visit, you know the kind of relative you like but might only see once every ten years. He's getting old. Took 280 to 19 north and bumper to bumper traffic all the way to golden gate. China town was big. No way I could live here. Temps sure beat that 95 and humidity we left in Florida. Golden Gate Bridge was beginning of awesomeness. Such a majestic symbol of our country when we were a can do nation. One of our nations pyramids. The traffic for 60 miles north of San Fran was unbearable. Stop and go for no obvious reason. Let me outta here. Wine country finally wore the only green we had seen so far. Traffic thinned and you started wondering how could we have gotten so rural so fast. You can tell the hills are trying hard to grow up to be mountains. Driving hard for the redwoods after the worst plane flight in memory and a poor nights sleep and a ninety year old mother in law trying hard to be a trooper. Almost didn't find a place to stay because a three day reggae festival in humboldt county had sucked all the rooms out of circulation. Whew the second hand smoke. Coastal redwoods are the tallest living organisms in the world. They are able to grow so straight because they have three times as many chromosomes as a normal tree and they can make their branches grow on which ever side will keep the tree growing straight. Ginormous. Their effect is like getting a mind massage. Cabins finally came into view and my ass thanked,the rest of my body profusely for its release. Cool night air, time change, and exhaustion finally overwhelmed my consciousness.
Next: No where to stay!