San Francisco-Tuesday 7-26-11

We pulled in last night. Tayter girl hates bridges and tunnels. We had to go across a long bridge only to pass through a tunnel.



And on the other side of the tunnel was another bridge



We walked to Fisherman's Wharf. Ya know on TV when they show how straight up and down the hills are in San Francisco and you think,"Wow those look like some big hills"? In real life they are much steeper!!!


We took a boat ride under the Golden Gate Bridge





Alcatraz


Looking back at the city


We then waited an hour for a trolley.



A little shopping and dinner at Gott Burgers :-)

Sequoia National Forest-Monday 7-25-11

Stayed our first night in Tulare, CA and pulled out to Sequoia this morning to see the giant trees. They are 3000+ years old, over 150 feet tall and have diameters of over 40 feet. Huge doesn't even begin to describe them. Pictures really don't show how big they are but with the car in front of it, it kind of gives you a perspective. This is not even one of the biggest ones. You have to walk to them.





We hiked out to see the General Sherman tree, the biggest one there, and on the way back to the car we saw something even better-a black bear looking for food :-) He's the black spot to the left of the tree.



The kids are in the middle of a hollowed out tree.









I got to check of "See Giant Trees" off of my bucket list! That place is gorgeous!!! And the temperature was perfect. The picture below is just to rub it in.





Left Sequoia and headed into San Francisco, arriving about 9:00pm California time.

California

We had planned on leaving for vacation Sunday 7-24-11 because we had to pick Tayte up from Granny's Saturday evening, but after getting her home and doing her laundry, Devin wanted to head out. So, we pulled out of Edmond at midnight not knowing how far we would go. Somewhere in New Mexico I watched the sun come up in my mirror.




With 3 drivers we ended up going further than we thought. We finally reached a place we had really been looking forward to at about 4:00pm Sunday in Kingman, Arizona.


At some point we decided to drive all the way!





It took about 22 hours to get to out first hotel stop and we were a day ahead of schedule. Not too bad!