"Mustard rock rolling foothills are speckled before us now. Tons of freshly trimmed almond and orange trees line this Highway 180, as we head east to the mountains of Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks.

The trees exude frail, dry creepyness in the absence of leaves.

The uncommon crisp air, gets crispier as we ascend. Refreshing!

Boulders and sand fill the rest of the landscape, with misplaced cotton fields appearing at random intervals throughout foothill valleys. As we leave the dirt below, the dry hill whips up around for forty more miles."

- some jotted notes as we drove this morning

The highlights for these two parks are (and were for us) the HUGE TREES! We saw the Grant Grove including the General Grant Tree (3rd largest in the world) at Kings Canyon.

Then south in the Sequoia National Park we saw the General Sherman Tree which is (one of many I'm sure) National Christmas Trees.

General Sherman is the largest living thing in the world! THE LARGEST LIVING THING IN THE WORLD?!?! Wow!

47 feet wide wide, and that's all the way up to 300 feet staying in that thickness!

SO GIGANTIC!

Always good to be around things bigger than you in nature!

It only took an hour and a 1/2 to get there, and we took a nap at one of the groves. I perpetually slept the rest of the day basically in the truck too :)

Steak nachos at Tahoe Joe's capped our afternoon off, and a sleep monster continued to conquer my evening.

I did watch Mona Lisa Smile tonight though. It was not very enlightening. Some good things, but mostly disappointed 1950s women dealing with sad realities. Humph.

Side thought: I'm at a stand still with music of late. Rather enjoying random mixes from my IPOD as I work on the computer though. The Thrills and Stills are always ones I say, "Hey I like this, who is it again."

"What if it all means something..." - Chantel Kreviazuk