The Auto Log was a fallen tree that folks used to be able to park their cars on and take pictures. You can’t actually park your car there anymore, but we did get to walk up on top of it and take some pictures. The base of the tree was gigantic!
After we stopped at the Auto Log, we were stopped taking pictures of some nearby trees when I looked up and saw our first live bear on the trip. He was actually quite small and was fairly skittish. He went up to the nearby trashcan and started snooping around trying to find something to eat. We had to get a picture with Tucker.
The General Sherman Tree is the largest tree in the park as far as volume and total mass. It is 275 feet tall and over 2200 years old. We took a half a mile hike down to the tree and it was so massive! It was hard to imagine a tree could be that big.
When we left Sequoia National Park, we went downhill for a long time and Katy didn’t have to hit the gas for about 10 or 12 miles. This resulted in us getting the best gas mileage we have ever seen on the car. We got all the way up to 48.3 mpg before she had to hit the gas.
We made it to Oakland at about 5 pm and the driving in the Bay Area was a little hectic. We were on about 5 different interstate sections before we made it to the hotel, and we hadn’t even been into San Francisco yet.
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