Another about turn!
We left San Fran and travelled up the coast through Redwood country – we have seen many large trees – trees you can walk through, trees you can drive through, twisted and merged trees, hollow burned trees, the tallest trees, the oldest trees, the widest trees – you get the picture! There was also a brief stop at Doran Country Park (long enough to take a pic).
We crossed the border into Oregon and the weather was still cool but clear and dry. We bedded down in a motel in Medford – and woke up to snow and weather warnings of the coldest snow storms in 15 years! -26 degrees at night! The weather channel over here is so dramatic! We were heading to Yellowstone and Crater Lake parks – so we checked their websites – mostly closed! So we did an about turn and headed back south quick smart to avoid the extreme cold. So yesterday we headed south 400 miles to Lake Tahoe – still cold and beautifully snowy but bearably so.
We bought snow chains and were forced by the highway patrol guys to put them on before entering South Lake Tahoe. Matt decided to ignore their advice to pull in to the lighted area (it was dark) where they help to put thm on and instead pulled into the dark layby to do it himself. Half an hour of huffing and puffing later we did manage to move on – slowly – with chained wheels.
So today we are going to go ice skating and for a walk by the lake – we really want to go on a snowmobile trip but haven’t decided yet if the budget can take it!
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Can’t see the wood through the trees ! They are certainly big,well they are American trees after all ! Really nice pics,keep up the good work.Stay warm + sensible.Glad you enjoyed your British proper cup of tea.Grandad says bring home a few logs for the fire.Take care,have a nice day.xxx
Hello you two. Hope you got my email at last!
Glad to see your having a great time – don’t see tree’s like that in the New Forest!!!
Stay warm.
Wes + family
Alrighty… Been off work for 2 days so i had 3 lots of photos to go through. Love the pic of the tree/garage and Alcatraz…
Matt, Your a little red faced in SF, either your unfit and the biking was too much for you, or you forgot your suntan lotion….. hahaha
Keep the pics coming along guys…
Hi mate.
As usual I ignored Rach’s advice and got a little pink!!
Matt…
Does this seem to be the common theme …. Ignoring advice!!!!……. Snow chains in the dark?? … Crazy but Very impressive (i can only imagine what Rach was saying at the time!)
Rachel and Matt …. Are needing a Rest???????
Well i’m sure you’ve got some time off work coming up!!!…. Like the next 11 Months!
Yeah I will change that status now – we are fully recharged!
… and yes my words in that situation are best left to the imagination or I would have to set an adult only rating to the blog.
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