Fresno Fun??

Fresno, as it turns out, is just as bad as people told us it would be. However...the BB's brakes checked out fine so today we went to Sequoia National Park. In all honesty, it was beautiful but very much like every other park we have been to in Cailfornia. Lots of big pines, big granite mountains, big hills to drive up and down! Very pretty drive there but it took almost two hours to drive the "50" miles "they" say it is from Fresno to Sequoia.

We did a nice hike along a river that was in the valley between two large granite peaks and eventually lead to a waterfall. The hike was about 3.5 miles round trip. I can only imagine how great this fall would be in the spring, as it is 1200 feet high! Not a whole lot of water at this time of year. Enough to create a vision, anyway...

We did see the huge sequoias. Tough trees....they are disease and insect resistant. Even fire resistant. They grow like weeds. But they have one fault...shallow root systems. So when they get too big, they simply topple.

Jeff doing his bench press



On the way out we drove by these monsters. As a reference, I included the person and car in the photo...

And this isn't even a "big" one!

Back at the BP, Jeff made a fine dinner of pasta and sauce. We will head to the west coast tommorrow. Probably end up around San Louis Obispo. I am really looking forward to SHORE in place of MOUNTAINS. Not that I don't like the views, just tired of the driving. Time to walk the beach, smell the salt and sea spray and...fish!

Pretty Bird!