October 9th....Quartzsite, AZ

We got to Quartzsite a couple of days ago, back in the sunny and dry climate. 

What a fantastic summer we have had!!  Kind of sad to have our trip end, but it will be nice to stay in one spot for a while.  Although we are going home for 2 or 3 weeks.  We fly out of AZ on the 17th and will spend a week in WI with our son, and other family that live there.  From there we will go home for a couple of weeks to be with family there.  We are driving my brothers RV back to AZ for them and they will fly down after the holidays.  So still traveling I guess 

We left Crescent City on sat morning and drove south and east and ended up staying in a Casino Lot that night.  On Sunday we drove as to Bakersfield and spend the night in a Walmart lot.  It was a interesting drive through the agriculture valley in CA.  There was grove after grove of almond and pistachio trees,  and vineyards and winerys.  I was surprised to learn that also grow a lot of rice in the valley.  But there was so much traffic, didn't like that.

Because of the government shut down, the BLM land that we park on in the winter is closed, tho we did pull in and park anyway.  Lots of people park out here on the desert, so it's going to be a problem for a lot of people if they don't get things settled soon.  

I guess this is my blog, I have enjoyed doing it, which actually surprised me.  I didn't think that I would keep it up, but found that I did have fun doing it and sharing my pictures.

This is where we are parked, have been parking on this same spot for 6 years

 It is windy today so lots of dust in the air, but it is in the 70's, so perfect.  Yesterday it was over 90, a

bit to hot for me

October 2nd

We're still staying in Crescent City.  Today we drove south to see the redwoods, there was a lot of road work in the park and in some places the road was closed, but we saw a lot.  They are so massive and awesome and it's almost impossible to get the pictures to show how really big and tall that they are.  I did find if I pointed the camera straight up you can see better how tall they are....here are some pics

I thought this made a interesting picture

 

The top so this tree is way up there 

Same tree, still not to the fop

October 1st

Today we drove thru part of the Redwood National Park.  Tomorrow we plan on going to the Avenue of Giants, where the redwoods on even bigger.  

Lots of pics...

They do get over a 100 inches of rain a year here.

This is a really big one

How would like to find this big guy in your garden...it's a banana slug

The tree is wider than our truck

We sat here and watched the surf while we ate our lunch

This one is hollow

The ferns are taller then I am

Moss covere tree

Ferns growing on a dead log

This is one of the bigger trees that we saw today.  It is 304 ft tall,   21.6 ft diameter,  68 ft circumference and the estimated age is 1500 years