Going South

One way to revive the excitement of a road trip is to do something new. So with a little Bob Dylan playing on the radio, we decided to get back to the national parks we love and visit Crate Lake National Park on the way south to California. Crater Lake is one of the cleanest bodies of water in the world and the site of it is absolutely breathtaking. Linds and I didn’t really know much about it so our expectations weren’t high. I think that’s why we were shocked at the beauty and quiet we found there.

That night we decided to keep on driving and crossed the border into sunny California. In the middle of the night we found ourselves driving through thick fog in the middle of the Redwood National Forest. Linds and I were practically sitting on the dashboard to see where we were going. It was actually kind of fun but I will admit that we pick the worst times to drive at night.

The next morning we drove down the Avenue of the Giants around 9am when no other cars were on the road. We must have pulled over three dozen times to take pictures. It was like being in a real life Fern Gully. I have never felt so small in my life. My favorite part was when we were listening to “Free Bird” while driving down a small, curvey part of the road with the sun in front of us and the beautiful trees all around. This is what road trips are made of.