Day 1 in Yosemite National Park | Hiking Tuolumne Grove Trail | Hiking the Mirror Lake Trail | Camping in Upper Pines Campground | December 2025 We had finally arrived at the second big goal for this road trip: Visiting Yosemite National Park for our first time ever! While we knew that visiting in December…
Chico to Moccasin, CA | Hiking in North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve | Camping at Beals Point Recreation Area | Hiking in Glory Hole Recreation Area | December 2026 I have to admit, these days of this vacation were not our favorite. The cloudy days were weighing us down, we were discouraged by the lack…
Red Bluff to Chico, CA | Camping & Hiking in Red Bluff Recreation Area | Hiking in Bidwell Park | December 2025 After a refreshing time spent in the California coastal range, we felt ready to emerge from the woods and join society again. As we wound our way through the mountains on CA-36, we…
Driving CA Highway 36 from the Pacific to the Valley | Hiking Black Lassic and Pickett Mountains | Camping in Six Rivers & Trinity National Forests | December 2025 After finishing our errands and exploring in Eureka, we left the Pacific Coast Highway and followed CA-36 East into the California Coast range. The road was…
Our Days Spent Exploring Trinidad & Eureka, California | Hiking Trinidad Head | Hiking the Lady Bird Johnson Grove Trail in the Redwoods | Visiting Fort Humboldt State Historic Site & Humboldt National Wildlife Refuge | December 2025 We started today bright and early with leaving the rest area where we had slept and driving…
Crescent City to Trinidad, California | Klamath Overlook | Hiking in the Prairie Creek Redwoods | December 2025 We began our day with packing up and moving on from our campsite near Crescent City, running a couple of errands in town, and then continuing our drive South on US-101. We were now getting into entirely…