April 25/ Sequioa National Park

Left Visalia around 10:00 am to see the giant Sequoias. We went from the lush orchards and started climbing. The start elevation was under 1,000 ft and by the time we hit the sumit it was around 7,000 ft.! And lots of snow... don't know what we were thinking... we should know there would be snow in the mountains in April!! Rob had socks and underwear flying to dig out his longjohns! But I had hidden them well. The twists and turns to get to the top (not to mention the construction) had Daisy looking at the back of the seat! We were literally up in the clouds! And the trees!!!! They are astounding! What those loggers must have thought! There's one sequoia that took 2 men 13 days to cut down. Imagine that! So what goes up must come down. So down we came and started looking for a campsite... how hard can that be? Where are they when you want one? So we drove and we drove and we drove! We finally hit one at Los Banos, just off of Highway 5 at about 8:00 pm. Boy were we glad... that was too long of a day! So tomorrow, if the wind dies down we are going to plant ourselves here for an extra day just to unwind.