Some of you may know it as Redwoods National Park, but geeks will know it as Endor. We left Monday morning around 715 am and made really good time, We was driving down town Grants Pass when the F15’s did a flyover for Memorial Day so we timed that perfectly, but of course had no time to get a camera since it happen so fast.
Driving though Jedediah Smith State Park was fun, we stopped at a rest stop and ran into a family reunion (yeah, at a rest stop) which turned out to be a bunch of bible thumpers and we even had a 10 woman prayer circle in front of our Jeep as we was leaving. They was all in line for lunch (had to be 50+) and I was getting whiffs of the toilets they was next to, so I’m sure god must have told them that is where he wanted them to eat just so he could get a good laugh since he is a sick and sadistic fucker.
We stopped in Crescent City and got some Starbucks which was much needed and wanted and made numerous stops all the way down to our camp site which was called Elk Prairie and it lived up to the name, we saw 12 or so elk the minute we got there. We bought some really expensive firewood and made camp.
Tuesday we drove down to Orick, CA which was smaller than I expected and since Google maps was fucked, they did not have the Starbucks it said they had (which I just edited BTW on Google map) the marker was 40+ miles too far south… fuckers.
We also took a hike down to the Tall Tree Grove which was really cool to see trees that fucking big. What ticked us off was we wanted to get a toy Ewok to have some pictures with but of course we forgot it. I also dropped my shitty telephoto lens, so now it’s even shittyier and won’t work, so at least I have a legit reason to replace it other than “I want a better one†which was a good enough reason anyway.
Wednesday we wanted to drive to Cannon Beach if not all the way home via 101, we made a few stops and was just blown away by the views, but after 6 hours of driving in shitty traffic at times, we realized Newport was as far as we wanted to go and we grabbed a room next to the aquarium and just chilled out for the night.
Thursday we visited the Newport aquarium and we both really liked it, it wasn’t as packed as it could have been, but the kids screaming made up for it, but still it’s a very nice aquarium. Afterwards we took 20 to 34 to I5 and got home around 2 pm.
Pics are ok, my camera skills are ok at best and my lenses are cheap, but from what I’ve seen on video I like what I see.
I am not in the mood to write as I thought I was, so this is the end…
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