September 2016

Brakes were new in Crescent City, but with extensive Mountain driving they kept smelling like they were burning. Closest chain store was in Bakersfield, CA.

Turns out there are around 300k people there. And it has terrible air quality, worst murder rate by the police, but at least there is now internet, shower, and cell service. And the brakes checked out fine.

While we were there we found out Salton Sea which we planned to visit near LA has had 300 small earthquakes and put the rest of S. Cal. on earthquake watch, and then we found out that included Bakersfield, where we are. When you are traveling, you don't often know what county you're in.

Hotel was right next door to Buck Owen's Crystal Palace (he was a country star), so we went there and they had a country band playing and dancing was nice, like House of Blue style.

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Saw the 'Largest tree in the World' and also climbed Moro Rock.

A huge rock with unbelievable vistas of mountain ranges all around. Not for those afraid of heights. Was a sense of accomplishment to get to the top. And the closer you got to the top the more amazing cool breezes there were and they were needed!

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Saw the 'National Christmas Tree'. Tried to see the canyon but due to construction had to turn around.

Spend the night in campground in Kings Canyon. Beautiful but no electricity, phones, internet, or anything.

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Heading towards Yosemite. Saw a sign with turnoff for Bodie. Seemed to remember hearing the name and found out it was the famous Bodie ghost town. Only 20 miles detour, let's go!.

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Took a few pictures of the main areas. El Capitan, etc. And it was so crowded tons of tour buses of people. Planned to spend 2 days, but only spent 1 day. to head out to Sequoia.

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