Blogs from Redwood National Park, California, United States, North America - page 5

After a second night at Harris Beach, I packed everything up (for a second time) and headed south on 101. I entered my home state of California (after declaring that, no, I did not have any fresh fruit) and cruised into Crescent City, home to the Park Information office for Redwood National and State Parks. (That is really what it is called; it is a jointly managed area, with the federal Redwood National Park surrounded by a series of state parks.) After selecting a few choice postcards, I inquired about a place to camp. The ranger was thorough, maybe too thorough as nearly 15 minutes later I was still standing there, watching him deface a perfectly good map with pointless lines and arrows and circles. (I don't know if I cringe at that kind of map-directed ... read more

Crescent City KOA provided us with a nice, quiet and enjoyable place to stay. Our morning started off just like all the rest. Showers, clean-up, pack-up and hit the road. Tim got behind the wheel of our Coachman Aurora and pulled out onto Highway 101 and started towards the Redwood National Forest. In route to see the Big Redwoods, Kayla and Emily decided they wanted some hot oatmeal with toast for breakfast. We just missed the all-you-can eat pancakes, at the KOA, by about 20 minutes. They were not having much success cooking while we were riding so we pulled over for a few minutes and let them prepare their breakfast safely. The entire motor home smelled like blueberry oatmeal and warm toast. It reminded my of when I was a little girl, in the wintertime, ... read more

Ello again eager readers, this time i'm going to tell you about my time in the Redwood National Park in northern California! The place i was staying at in the redwoods was a hostel on highway 101. It was one of the hostelling international places, which is a group/organisation hostels can join in order to get more publicity and all of the other reasons companies group together. If you want to have a look at the place, here it is: http://www.norcalhostels.org/redwoods/ The hostel itself was kinda interesting, it's a family-run place in a pretty remote location. OK so it's on one of the major highways of california, but there's no mobile phone signal or internet access - which is saying a lot for somewhere in the west nowadays! There were also only two busses per day ... read more

Happy Birthday Mum! This was really the final day in terms of sight-seeing, and it was a good day. The Golden Gate Bridge is just as impressive as you imagine it to be, although my pictures don’t do it justice. From what we saw of it, San Francisco itself is a pretty city, quite a dramatic and welcome change from what we saw of Los Angeles. We continued along the scenic coast route, dodging strong gusts of wind, until the road took us inland a few miles and through belts of redwood trees. This was a great drive for me, being a tree fan, and it smelt like we were driving through a Christmas tree forest (a double winner!) We took a short detour to drive through the Chandelier tree (one of several of “THE world ... read more

There was 17,900 miles on the Honda this morning, which means we have traveled 5,400 miles since the start of out trip on August 15th. We had the oil changed at Honda World in Coos Bay. Very efficient and friendly people at this dealership. Then we were on our way heading south again along the coast. We were pleased to see that the coast was once again rugged and picturesque. We drove over Humbug Mountain and noticed how much greener it was along the southwest coast. We had lunch in Gold Beach and before we knew it, we were in California. We stopped in Crescent City and finally got an internet connection so we could send some blogs out. Our phone service along the coast has been very intermittent. We saw seals along Anchors Way and ... read more