We left Fairfield, CA on
Monday, August 13th and headed to Chowchilla, CA to stay for three nights. We had originally planned to visit Yosemite National Park. The park
service reopened Yosemite the next day, after closing for two weeks because of a
nearby wildfire. Although they reopened, the smoke was so bad in Yosemite
Valley you couldn't see much, so we decided to wait until another day to visit.
We drove south to Three
Rivers, CA on Thursday, August 16th to stay at another campground for
three days and visit nearby Sequoia National Park.
On Friday we visited Sequoia
and drove 17-miles up the scenic Generals Highway, from the entrance gate to
the summit. It was a scary drive in our F-150 up this steep, narrow and winding
road. It had more switchbacks than any road we’d ever been on before.
Sequoia National Park was established in 1890 and was well worth a visit.
The
earth’s largest tree, named General Sherman, is here.
We left Three Rivers this past Sunday and overnighted in Bakersfield. The weather continued to be dry and hot, in the upper 90s.
We left early on Monday morning and headed to Needles, CA for an overnight
stay. The Needles forecast was for a high of 115-degrees, but it only got up to
113. Walking outside felt like you were in a dry-heat sauna.
On Tuesday morning we
crossed the Colorado River into Arizona and as we drove east along I-40 we
noticed how green the desert was from recent rains. We had rain overnight at
Meteor Crater, about 30-miles east of Flagstaff, AZ. That was the first time
we’d seen rain in almost a month.
We drove to Albuquerque,
NM yesterday to spend a couple of days and visit our friends Kris and Jan who
live here. We enjoyed dinner with them last night and hearing all about their summer trip to
Alaska, driving up the Alaskan Highway.
Steve & Julie
Cornelius
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