On the Road Again!

Sorry for the lack of an update last week. I'm trying to finish these posts Wednesday nights, so they can be published and shared Thursday mornings, but last week there just wasn't much to write home about.

After landing in San Francisco in my last post, we found that there wasn't a lot of parking, or things one could do in town while hauling a 19 ft trailer. So, we decided to pass right on through San Francisco and head to my old friend Bill's house.

Ethan plays on scooters with his cousin Jaxon.

There, we had a place to detach our trailer so we could drive around without all the extra weight. We back-tracked to San Francisco for a day and visited Peir 39, where we caught Snorlax and a load of Magikarp. We also saw the aquarium and wax museum, but our phones had died by that point, so we couldn't get our pictures taken with any of the celebrities. (Though they were kind enough to photoshop us into some pictures, for $25.)

Here we are at a concert with Jimi Hendrix.

After that, we sort of just loafed around. Our weekend stay ended up extending into over a week. Not that the whole time was unproductive, or unintersting. We are especially grateful for the Hammond family for their help, hospitality, and their "well, you don't have to leave tomorrow" attitude.

We did have fun, especially playing Apples to Apples and watching some old home videos which Bill and I had made back in high school, which helped us realize just how much one can completely forget in 10+ years.

Wait. Has it really been that long?

...Anyways!

Using Bill's house as our home base, we finally decided to visit Yosemite before heading back on the road, so we didn't have to tow the trailer up and down any more hills.

That's when we all got sick, so we extended our stay at Bill's by a couple more days. However, we all managed to recover fairly quick (mostly, I'm still relying on some daytime cough medicine to make it through the day). So yesteray, we decided to head back on our way, again.

We stopped just south of Fresno, CA, and today, after detaching our trailer at a campground, took off eastward to check out the Sequoia National Forest. There we met Sherman, the world's largest (not tallest or widest, but largest by volume) tree.

Ethan is not impressed.

We then returned to our trailer, and now I am typing up this blog post. So, I suppose that's all I've got to say about that. I imagine I'll have more to talk about later this week, as we move on toward the next state!

Take care!