We’ve been on the road for only 3 weeks and I’m already behind in my posts, and to be honest, I’m not totally sure what day this was, nor am I ever quite sure what day it currently is… (I think that this was last Tuesday…LOL!)
We had spent Monday night in the Walmart parking lot in Crescent City. If we are thinking of Wallydocking, we always call the store ahead of time to OK our overnighting there; this store said that we could park there, but if the police came and asked us to leave that we would have to. When we pulled in that evening, there were signs all over saying that overnight parking was prohibited. It must be a city ordinance, but since Walmart didn’t care that we stayed, we decided to risk it – they had said that people aren’t usually asked to leave, so I think that it was just posted so that if someone decided to camp there long-term that it was easier to evict them…
Tuesday morning, we pulled out (not very early!) and drove south through the Redwoods National Park. After driving through Crescent City and seeing a visitor’s center for the park, I realized that if there was a v.c. in this town, maybe there wasn’t one in the park… so after calling the park service and finding out that it was indeed the only one for the northern part of the park, the kids and I backtracked and picked up Jr. Ranger books (and, among a few other things, our first bumper sticker of the trip! :). Vaughn and Jake had driven on ahead with the 5th wheel, and we followed. Well, we kind of followed, they took 101 while we took the scenic parkway and we met up at the south entrance, which has a large parking lot, and a nice visitor’s center (with rangers that were very kid friendly :).
We visited with the rangers and the kids worked on their booklets a bit (yep, even Eli does them (by choice) – he’s torn as to which he likes better – he likes it when they have a ‘senior’ program as they are more challenging, but he also likes it when they don’t and he can get it done quickly and easily…I like it that he doesn’t care what people think The southern entrance’s v.c. is located right on the ocean, so we walked out and checked out the shoreline here. Treasure of treasures 😉 the kids found a dead crab…
which we all had to check out (except baby Caleb who was sleeping!).
We made and ate lunch in the 5th wheel, and then hopped in the van to drive the park a bit more (and so Dad and Jake could see it – it’s hard to check out your surroundings when you are being pushed down a mountain pass by 10 tons and your brakes are smoking!!!
Sure glad to hear from you. Can’t imagine why you’re so busy – lol. You’re still too far north for the nice warm weather. Keep moving south. Love the pictures of the family. And I would have to say that not too many people travel with swords.