I doubt I will get this all in in one blog post, and I don’t want to deal with the pictures either. So Joe and I finally went on our tripto the Redwoods and Oregon Coast. We left Sunday after church, after being a bit surprised by the announcement that they were re-aligning the ward boundaries and we were changing wards. We’ve only been in the old one for a couple months, just starting to get to know people. Luckily there are still familiar faces in the new ward, and it’s not really different.

We drove through Nevada without air conditioning. It was hot, but bearable. We drove across this two-lane highway and hardly passed anyone. Lots of desert complete with rabbit brush, sage brush, and hotness. We drove until we hated driving (Joe mostly drove–he likes it more then me). We spent the night at the Wagon Wheel Motel in Lovelock, Nevada. Kinda random–it’s where we finally gave up.

The next morning was more driving until we reached Humboldt Redwood St. Park. We set up camp, and I wanted to lay down for a second. We put the air matress on the ground outside the tent, and laid down for a second…and the next thing I know I am waking up and it’s three hours later and dark outside. Very strange–I felt like someone had put a sleeping spell on me and Joe or something.

We did eventually wake up the next morning and drove around the park. In the park there is a grove of very old and very large trees called Founder’s Grove, and it has a nice nature trail, complete with pamphlet so I can learn some stuff (I like all the interpretive signs and such). The trail also branched off, so Joe and I wandered around, occasionally getting lost in these weird loopy trails.

I’m putting in pictures now. I didn’t get a lot of good ones in the redwoods–it was really dark down at ground level, and my camera didn’t like that too much. Really–the forests are really huge and gourgeous. I loved being there.