WI visits CA

My family was just visiting us from WI this past week.  I haven’t seen them in about a year, so it was good to have them around.  Isaiah was happy to have the extra attention and Chester had more people to play with, so everyone had a good time!

We took them to Monterey to see the ocean at the beginning of their trip.  The water was beautiful!  I have a picture of me and my sister in front of the sea.  My mom had a lot of fun picking up little bits of shell and rock from the beach (which she ended up leaving at my house).

Unfortunately when my family first got to CA, Isaiah had a nasty cold.  He apparently gave it to my family and everyone, but my dad, spent most of the week laying on the couch moaning.

On Friday, everyone (but Chris) felt well enough to attempt a little sightseeing.  We decided to drive down Hwy 1, which goes along the coast, to visit Big Sur State Park.

The coast was beautiful!  Hwy 1 has lots of little pull offs where you can take photos.  The water was bluer than blue and the coast was rugged and majestic!  My family got lots of great pictures.

We had wanted to go to Big Sur to see redwoods and it was supposed to have a waterfall.  I assumed we could just drive through and see the scenery.  Turns out all the roads were for “authorized vehicles only.”  To go see the falls, we would have had to hike .1 mile, except that a tree had fallen across the path and we had to take the alternate route.  They claimed this would make it .6 miles, but somehow it was the longest .6 miles.  Everyone was still a little under the weather and the trail was uphill almost the whole way.  By the time we got to the falls, we were all tired and out of breath.  We were hoping for a gushing torrent, but it was 3 steady streams coming over the top, hardly worth our exertion!

At least the redwoods at Big Sur were beautiful!  They had one tree trunk that they claimed was 700 years old.  The redwoods were all at the bottom of the mountain, before our big hike.  Too bad we didn’t just stop with admiring them; we would have been a lot less tired!

The next day everyone was back to being sick again, so maybe our little excursion was too taxing.  No one really felt better for the rest of their trip, so we didn’t get to take them to San Francisco.  I guess we’ll have to save that for their next trip out!

Please follow and like us:

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

14 − thirteen =