FIRST SNOW IN CALIFORNIA

October 29th and 30th
Animal counter: Deers!

Continuing on with our journey

Cali!!!!

We arrive at Redwood National Park in the dark of night and try to find a spot to camp....first place we end up is down some "spooky" road....following the fog and darkness we end up deeper and deeper into the woods to the point that we feel we should turn back. ( cuando digo spooky me refiero a que estabamos cagados de miedo...diarrea es poco....una carretera toda con niebla, en la cual no veimaos mas de 3 metros en frente de nosotros, al lado de la pendiente del monte...A cada senal tuvimos que girar el coche para iluminarlo directamente y ver algo.).

So, once again we arrived at our camp site in the dark, and once again we left bright (well still dark out) and early in the morning to make the most of our day (and saved a few bucks too). We headed into the woods and went for a hike through the trees and saw the "biggest" trees in the world....WTF, they were HUGE!

Paul and Babe

Exciting events during this day: we hit 177777 on the odometer. We saw Paul Bunyan and Babe. We became tree huggers. We left and entered many tsunami hazard zones and we went from coast, through fields to mountains. We also saw the smallest town thus far - population 97!

Extreme camping

After hugging some trees we left the coastal fog to be entrapped into the mountain fog.

Arriving from Redwood, (FOR ONCE!) before sunset, to the Lassen Volcanic National Park. Some miles after we make it to the Campground with still daylight! Ready to prepare the tent and dinner (at Canadian time…meaning 17.30  lol  ) we find out that half of the Park is closed because of snow, so a Ranger (ginger hair 20 something girl) redirect us to the southwest Campground so we are closer to the open part of the Park. After driving some good 25 miles we end up in a Halloween School party talking with a Real American Grandma (“Cause in Spain and in France you don’t have as much Freedom as her, right?” her comment when looking at me..  lol.. and then some.."We need some new kids for the School" once again looking at me..). Once we start driving again to head to the Campground, everything is dark and foggy!!!Since we can’t see more than 3 meters in front of us at 30km/h, we ended up on a closed road!!Went back to find a 3 Indian (from India, not natives..) guys that showed us 

Watch out Green Peace...you have some competition

 that the entrance to the visitor centre was OPEN! we spent the night in a WARM, DRY place....once again FOR FREE!....and only got yelled at in the morning when the cleaning lady came in, lol.  9 probably by now the police from all the states visited must be looking for 2 campers who havent been paying the camp fees!!! oups..)

first snow

Well recharged (literally, as we charged up our camera batteries), we headed up Lassen Volcano to see what we could see....well, that wasn't very much. It was SNOWING like a mofo. We got to see the Sulfur works (aka bubbling mud pools aka 1a vez que he visto LAVA VOLCANICA burbujeando), but not much more. We hiked a bit, but the snow was falling pretty heavily and we didn't have the gear. So we called it a day and headed down to San Francisco to make it there by Halloween party time for the evening. Along the way (well, actually, along all our road journey so far) we were well accompanied by several Christian rock radio stations (I think we've memorized "reaching out for jesus" by now).