Big Basin Redwoods

California, round 1

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December 10th 2007
We started out at my dad's house in California, San Jose where you’ll find the linear accelerator that splits atoms at the Stanford University. The first two days we went hiking through the Big Basin and saw enormous redwood trees. There’s a festival that uses a tree stump as a dance floor and the trees can be up to 100 ft tall; there’s one split in the middle that cars drive through! The ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more