Wednesday 8 July We awake 4:30 and get our stuff into the car and leave. We have to in San Francisco by 9:30 to drop the car off. I doze. We stop in a small town at a car wash to pack our bags, dry the tent and wash the car. It takes a lot longer to get where we are going than the gps tells us and we are about 1/2 - 1 hour late to drop the car off. We go down to the rental desk and get another rental. It just makes sense. It's cheaper to reserve online than at t...

Tuesday 7 July What a cold night. Not much sleep for sure. I don't want to get changed out of my layers. Breakfast, then off down to the valley. We stop to walk to a waterfall from the stream bear our camp. There isn't much water! We drive around and park. There are a few walks we want to do. Most of them are quite long and we are exhausted. But we manage. We stop at the main store to by some lunch. There is a super vegetarian selection. We find a shady spot to...

Monday 6 July I get up to woodpeckers knocking on trees. At first i thought it was someone knocking on a RV door. Lots of squirrels and chipmunks about. The chipmunks are tiny and cute. And they run fast. We pack up and head on our way via some giant trees and a massive stump ppl once thought was a hoax because it was so big. I wonder how long they have been around. I wonder if they come from the beginning. It's about 3 hours until we are in the national park of...

Sunday 5th July Coming into the town last night we saw Independence Day fire works. I'm not sure staying in a bed helped me sleep any better but it sure was nice! Breakfast is included, basic but fine. We are on our way by 7:30. It's about 4 hours to the national park of sequoia and we only stopped for petrol and groceries. At the gate the park is nothing to talk of. The landscape is dry and sparse. There are paddocks and paddocks of fruit trees oranges, olives...

Saturday 4 July It's another horrible night and I'm Starting to regret the camping idea! I try and sleep in until it gets too hot then we pack up and check out some more canyon views. We take a short hike down into the canyon to the queens gardens. It's very nice and not too hot due to cloud cover. Then we head on back through Vegas. We wait until after sabbath to fill up with petrol. Hoping to get to the sequoia national park tomorrow. The camp ground we stop...