San Diego – St. George, UT
Odometer: 15,135 At 7:00 we decide to start packing and get ready. Just after 10, the apartment looks decent enough to leave, two suitcases are packed with heavy shoes, warm cloths and shorts and t-shirts…
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Thousand Oaks – Los Angeles – Santa Monica – San Diego
Odometer: 6,800Time: 07:00Today we head straight into the “chaos” of Los Angeles. HWY 101 leads us to Thousand Oaks where we spontaneously decide to call an old friend who lives there. He is up and…
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Carrizo Plain National Monument – California Coast – Ventura
Odometer 6,450 Time: 08:15 We/I struggle with the new navigation system, so we take some detours today! But, eventually we find everything we actually want to see: First we head out to the west of…
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Bakersfield – an expensive day!
Odometer: approx. 60,800 Time: 08:00 We drive almost directly (without too many stops) to Bakersfield. HWY 395 leads us slowly down in elevation to a lower level over the first 120 miles. With each mile…
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Bodie – Mono Lake – Mammoth Lakes – Bishop
Odometer: 60,670 Time: 08:00 Time to leave this expensive town (even the gas is 60 Cents more expensive than in other cities here! We take HWY 395 south and then turn east towards Bodie. In…
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Yosemite – Bridgeport
Odometer: 60,455 Time: 08:00 It will be a long day, therefore we have to leave Fresno early. We take HWY 41 north to Oakhurst where we fill up with a nice Starbucks (probably the last…
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Sequoia National Park – Fresno
Odometer: 60,250 Time: 09:00 After a visit to the Jeep Dealership we head east again, the same road as yesterday until….. we miss a turn and only realize much later that we did not come…
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Kings Canyon National Park – Fresno
Odometer: 60,042 Time: 09:15 HWY 180 east gets first through orchards again and then up to over 6,400 feet (1’950 Meter) elevation where the entrance to Kings Canyon National Park is. From there we soon…
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Sequoia vs. Redwood Trees
As we are close to the Sequoia National Park, here upfront some facts about the Sequoia vs. Redwood Trees: Ancestral redwoods in the family Taxodiaceae (Bald Cypress) date back at least 175 million years and…
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