April 18th was my first official day of unemployment (my last was August 12th). I woke up and immediately flew to LA.
So that i could have dinner with these people.
And go to Laguna Beach.
And look at surfer memorials.
Soon after that we left on our US National State Park Tour.
Beginning with the Sequoia Forest whose whole thing is really big, old trees.
The only way into the park is by driving for two hours, doing 20 mph (40 kilometres in this case)up impossibly curvy one lane road on a 90 degree incline w/ an elevation of 14,000 ft. See that winding thing on the right of this photo? That's King's Road.
In fact, the biggest living tree in the whole world lives here, he has a name plate so no one misses him.
Some of the trees are laying down and are so large you can drive cars through hollowed out portions of their trunks.
Sequioa bark is the softest bark i've ever felt. it feels like kittens after you put them in the dryer with fabric softener. this tree trunk is roughly the size of my living room btw.
Josh let out a couple primal screamadelicas and then we were on our way to Arizona.
We got to the Grand Canyon the entrance we chose seemed kinda pedestrian at first.
Guard rails, little kids, tons of Asian and Swedish tourists. It was still indescribably beautiful, but seemed a bit closed off.
We saw some people way off the beaten path and thought they were nuts.
Until after about 15 minutes, we became those people.
You can actually sit on the edge of the Grand Canyon. And it is sooooo sick.
Mike took all these photos, while cautiously urging us to come back from the edge.
Sandy kinda looked like this the rest of the trip.
If you ever get the chance you should go here at sunrise or just before sunset. The way the light illuminates the colors is a once-in-a-lifetime/ believe in god type of experience.
Before we left town we hit the Flinstone Diner.
A campground, restaurant, gift shop, and the last place on earth you can get breakfast for $3.
The gift shop was like a window into my dreams. I spent $80 on tribal paraphenalia.
Mike did not, but was patient enough to let me do a photo shoot at 9am.
After breakfast we were off to SLC on an epic drive day. TBC.
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