Tuesday & Wednesday:

Them are some big trees!  I spent the day looking at, taking pictures of, and just starring at the largest trees on earth.  First I drove down to the General Grant tree grove:

Small ones by the parking lot

General Grant Tree

Then I heading sound towards the the General Sherman tree.  Pretty cool to have one of these magnificent trees named after you.  I picked out a few that would be good as the “Not a General but Alvis no less trees”  Lobby your congressman and let’s see if we can get one of these named the “Alvis Tree”. 

Pics of Sherman

iPhone Pano version ( a bit distorted)

Tree all the other Trees pick on

It was getting late in the afternoon so I opted for staying in the Lodge Pole campsite  near to the Sherman tree.  They do offer dispersed camping – out a road to more isolated backwoods campsites, but I was tired and went the safe route.  You meet some interesting folks in these campsites and there appears to be a lot of Europeans over checking out the sites. 

Ode to Ria:

Ria is a blessing, a great travel companion, but a bit limiting in terms of taking hikes, etc as dogs are not allowed in the back country of national parks.  BLM is a bit of a different story so that is something to consider as I turn east in the coming days.  She is starting to get in a rhythm and learning the tricks of the camper, the timing of early to bed and early to rise.  On walks through the National park campsites, she basically is running for mayor and trying to win everyone’s vote.