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Thursday, August 21, 2008 (Sequoia National Park, stop 3)

After a lengthy food restocking and laundry day in Fresno, CA; we arrived, after dark, at Lodgepole campground in Sequoia National Park. Our name was not on the camp reservation board, but there was a “Helen Keller”, which we assumed was just someones mental block coming out on paper.

I drove the RV through several, increasingly tight, sections of non-RV camp sites before realizing that the streets were not designed for my large scale vehicle. After getting back on track, we parked and watched Everest, the Imax film from the 1996 Everest disaster depicted in the book we’ve been listening to, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer.

Side note: Signage entering Sequoia is no good. We could not find “General’s Highway” and can not tell the difference between the seemingly random, interchangeable use of “Sequoia” and “King’s Canyon”. Not very usable.

The next morning we moved to our reserved spot. The ranger had in fact, written “Helen Keller” by mistake. First time that’s ever happened.

We took a shuttle bus to the famous General Sherman tree and walked the paved Congress Trail through all the Sequoia trees you vaguely remember from grade school when you see their name. There were an abundance of overweight children and their large scale parents weezing their way up the slight inclines of the trail, from the forest floor below.

That evening, Gerrys fire starting abilities ticked of Susan, as we realized the smolderings would never get hot enough. We ended up wrapping the entire grill in tin foil. Looked like a giant toaster oven. Despite Susan’s skepticalness of how the turkey burgers would come out, they were in fact, quite delicious.

I charged the laptop behind some washing machines in the laundry facility. Apparently, most National Park campgrounds do not have electrical hookups for recreational vehicles. We were still all beat from our backcountry trek in Yosemite a couple of days prior, so our stay here didn’t take us far off the beaten path.

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That photo is sweet!

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