Tuesday Oct 18th
Oct 18th~
We woke up in the Bakersfield, Wal-mart. We had to give the Element it's 2nd oil change of this trip! How nice that the Wal-mart has that Tire/Lube service. Picked up our photos from the convenient 1 hr photo inside of Wal-mart. Sound like a commercial yet? Our national park line-up for the day was Sequoia National Park, CA. The sequoias are pretty amazing-quite overwhelming in their beauty. We saw General Sherman tree-which is the Worlds largest living thing! Well when driving in the Seq. park it became VERY foggy. We had to drive through the park into the National Forest (where the park rangers told us -we could legally spend the night in our car). Before getting out of the park we decided to check price/availability at this lodge that showed vacancies-just because it was so dangerous driving-could barley see and the roads were very windy. We had a very awkward experience--opened the "lobby door" and in we walked in on all the guests sitting down to dinner. We still don't know what exactly was going on but NO ONE was working the front desk and it was like this huge hiker wedding reception. Very bizzare. So back on the foggy, windy roads we go--I even volunteered to drive us out of the park into the forest. We when finally reach "forest boundary" I decide we should just sleep in the first pullout (you know the scenic pullouts on mtn roads). I pull in-but I don't like the spot. My thought was -just in case a car doesn't make the turn-i didn't want them to crash head on into us. So i decide to back up -to reposition our car. Beep Beep Beep--that's us backing up. Then at the same time I hear laura say "you better stop" and "bang"....ooops I backed up into one of those big boulders that they use to keep cars from dropping off the edge of a cliff. (luckily). We had a bit of a scary night in the Element that night. Everywhere you stop there are signs warning you about bears and not leaving food in you car (bears smell it and do damage to the car trying to get it blah blah blah) Well we saw a bear earlier in the day--3 cars parked right on the road-so we stop to see what they were looking at ---a big ole black bear just walking 75 yards away (luckily not towards us) Anyhow we had a bunch of food in the car and right smack parked in bear canyon country!!
We woke up in the Bakersfield, Wal-mart. We had to give the Element it's 2nd oil change of this trip! How nice that the Wal-mart has that Tire/Lube service. Picked up our photos from the convenient 1 hr photo inside of Wal-mart. Sound like a commercial yet? Our national park line-up for the day was Sequoia National Park, CA. The sequoias are pretty amazing-quite overwhelming in their beauty. We saw General Sherman tree-which is the Worlds largest living thing! Well when driving in the Seq. park it became VERY foggy. We had to drive through the park into the National Forest (where the park rangers told us -we could legally spend the night in our car). Before getting out of the park we decided to check price/availability at this lodge that showed vacancies-just because it was so dangerous driving-could barley see and the roads were very windy. We had a very awkward experience--opened the "lobby door" and in we walked in on all the guests sitting down to dinner. We still don't know what exactly was going on but NO ONE was working the front desk and it was like this huge hiker wedding reception. Very bizzare. So back on the foggy, windy roads we go--I even volunteered to drive us out of the park into the forest. We when finally reach "forest boundary" I decide we should just sleep in the first pullout (you know the scenic pullouts on mtn roads). I pull in-but I don't like the spot. My thought was -just in case a car doesn't make the turn-i didn't want them to crash head on into us. So i decide to back up -to reposition our car. Beep Beep Beep--that's us backing up. Then at the same time I hear laura say "you better stop" and "bang"....ooops I backed up into one of those big boulders that they use to keep cars from dropping off the edge of a cliff. (luckily). We had a bit of a scary night in the Element that night. Everywhere you stop there are signs warning you about bears and not leaving food in you car (bears smell it and do damage to the car trying to get it blah blah blah) Well we saw a bear earlier in the day--3 cars parked right on the road-so we stop to see what they were looking at ---a big ole black bear just walking 75 yards away (luckily not towards us) Anyhow we had a bunch of food in the car and right smack parked in bear canyon country!!
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