Epic Road Trip 2017 - Day #15

Today we spent the day in Humboldt Redwoods State Park.  We had a breakfast of eggs with veggies and while I was cooking, Katy found her previously lost (now old) wedding ring in the box with all our kitchen supplies!  After breakfast, we took a shower with nice hot water at the campground and relaxed for a bit before going to the State Park visitor center that was near our campground.  It was nice and very informative, but a bit disorganized as far as visitor centers go.  After our tour around the place, we went down the road a bit to Redway, CA and had lunch at Deb's Great American Burger Company.  It had a great small town atmosphere and we sat outside while we ate. They even had some pretty good desserts and we had peach pie and carrot cake.  We spent the afternoon driving and walking around in the various areas of the redwood groves.

We did an "auto tour" that took us along the Avenue of the Giants and we learned lots about the area and the redwood groves.  The trees were just as impressive as the Sequoias, but many of them had also been cut down before the area was protected.

There were still plenty of large trees and "old growth" that had not been touched by logging.  We even did a little photo shoot of our new wedding bands with inlaid redwood on some redwood trees.

After our exploring, we stopped by the Miranda Market for gas, an ATM stop, and some bread and cheese.  Once we got back to camp, we made a fire and toasted the bread and cheese along with some leftover peaches for our evening meal.  Tomorrow we will head up the coast again.

What We Learned: Today we learned about the Bolling Grove of the coastal redwoods.  It was named after Col. Raynal C. Bolling of the US Army.  He was the first high ranking officer in the US military to be killed in WWI.  We took additional note that he was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas.  It was our interesting fact of the day.

For the day we traveled 47.9 miles and saw license plates from 16 states and 2 Canadian provinces.