Part of the series: Vancouver to the Grand Canyon and Back Again!
<< Bandon, Oregon
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| The Immortal Tree |
The Avenue of Giants is a small road the follows along below and beside the 101. It is still amazing to me that two roads can be so close to one another, and yet be so completely different. The highway feels like any other highway, rolling along the coast and around the foot of the mountains, crossing bridges that surprise you every time with how high they are. The Avenue of Giants is very definitely on the ground, winding through massive trees in absolute silence. We stopped at one grove where Angharad and Juanita went for a walk (narrowly missing some poison oak) and I just rolled the window down and listened to the forest. It was beautifully peaceful, and I dozed off a bit, I have to admit.
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| Proof that I am short and those trees are big!! |
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| Purple flowers on the Oregon coast |
After leaving the Avenue of Giants, we had 4 hours of driving before arriving at our hotel on the outskirts of Sacramento. At one point, we left the coast and headed back inland through Lake County during sunset. The hills in the area were covered in golden grasses, dotted with green leafy trees (where they hadn't suffered from flash fires) and watching the sun paint the sky with shots of pink and yellow was as beautiful again as anything we had already seen on our trip south.
We got to our hotel just after 10, crashing into our beds to grab some sleep before our next day's adventure.
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