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53rd Stop - Weaverville, CA

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Blog Post #64 - Written April 24, 2026 Stay: September 18-25, 2025 So, there are some roads that I tried to avoid while planning our adventure.  After our Utah fiasco of destroying our brakes, I tried very hard to avoid super scary roads for our massive rig and wimpy truck.  Unfortunately, getting across Northern California, there is no way to avoid the terrifying roads.  It was either through the mountains (from the coast to interior) or along the cliffs down the coast.  Since Gary's brother, Matt, lives in Weaverville, we chose the mountains.  Plus, they really don't recommend going through Big Sur (cliffs) with anything longer than 25'.   The mountains were not good to us.  While driving, Gary noticed that something was wrong with the engine.  The gears were pausing shifting and grinding. Not good.  There wasn't much else to do but pray we make it and keep going.  There aren't any good pull-offs in the middle of nowhere. ...
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52nd Stop - Avenue of the Giants (CA)

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Blog Post #63 - Written April 20, 2026 Stay: September 15-17, 2025 We continued on our Redwoods adventure by driving down to the Humboldt Redwoods.  We loved traveling down the Avenue of the Giants, the long stretch of roads that is entirely encompassed by these incredible giants.   There was a little town that had some fun roadside attractions.  We found the Eternal Treehouse that was like a mini underground bunker.  There was this incredible tree carving of an Native American as well.   Across the street, there was this massive hollowed out trunk that we could climb and stand up in.  They also had the Immortal Tree which has been struck by lightning, cut by loggers, flooded, and burned. The Humboldts had a bunch of small loops to go explore. I think we went down the Founders Grove Loop and the trails around them.  We let the kiddos take their bikes out as we explored.  We found even taller trees with massive gaps in them. It is incredi...
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51st Stop - Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park (Klamath, CA)

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Blog Post #62 - Written April 13, 2026 Stay: September 12-14, 2025 So, when people talk about visiting the Redwoods, you might need to ask "which ones?",  because there is ONE Redwood National Park and THREE Redwood State Parks.  They are all part of one system, but I now know there are many different areas to visit.   Our first Redwood stop was Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.  We pulled into our campground, which definitely had posted old pictures on their website.  It was mostly vacant and almost looked abandoned, except for the construction crew that was borrowing the campground office.  in fact, you had to drive through the active construction site to get into the campground; Gary thought I had led us astray with this one haha.  Luckily, there were a few other campers that showed us the ropes and shared the best "hot tip" ever: to check out the mouth of the Klamath river (read to the bottom to find out why!). We felt a little bad for the un...
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