June 24th Sequoia & Kings Canyon

June 24th Sequoia & Kings Canyon
Our Two Year Anniversary!

We ended up sleeping in the car on the way to Sequoia. I didn’t mind it this night because I was so tired and just wanted to sleep. We woke up near a very pretty town and ate breakfast and had starbucks. We drove to Sequoia and Kings Canyon-they are two different national parks but right next to each other. The drive into sequoia was amazing! The landscape is so different than what we had been seeing for the past week. We came from desert to forest in a couple of hours. The hillsides are very steep and the ground covering is beautiful green ferns. Sequoia trees are the largest trees in the world and their bark is a deep red-brown. The base of a sequoia can be 30 feet around! The biggest one is 40 feet around. Everything here is so lush and green. The smell of pine and nature are just to die for. I wish I could bottle up the fresh air and smell it every time I miss the west. We went on a small hike around the visitor center. Since we are now in bear country, we were constantly looking for them. We haven’t seen any yet but I would like to see one-from the safety of our car! Being in bear country gives us a different experience. We have to take out all of our food, toiletries, clothes that we ate in and anything else that has a scent and put them into a bear proof metal box that the campgrounds provide. You can’t even leave it in your car! Talk about scary.
In the park, there are only small little snack bars to eat at or really expensive lodges. Fortunately, we found a sign advertising an all-you-can-eat BBQ. Since we couldn’t really celebrate our anniversary in style we did gorge ourselves at this place. We had ribs, chicken, corn on the cob, potato salad, coleslaw, corn bread, beans, homemade apple pie and pink lemonade. Yummy! We made smores later at our campsite. It was a wonderful end of our anniversary.