Sequoia National Park shares a border with Kings Canyon National Park, so that was on our agenda for Wednesday.  We were driving the RV that day though with nowhere to leave it, so we drove to a different entrance into the park instead of driving through Sequoia to get there, hoping that it would be less curvy steep roads going around Sequoia.  The roads around Sequoia were filled with large orchards, many trees that I wasn’t sure about identifying. We finally were able to tell that many were citrus trees, and I’m pretty sure we saw lots of olive trees.

The first bit of the park wasn’t very impressive.  We did get to go to another sequoia grove and see more trees, but we were wondering what all of the hype was about with this park. 

A ranger in Sequoia had told me the day before about a privately-run cave that was just outside the border of Kings Canyon and that it was worth it to go check it out, so we decided to drive a ways out to get to the cave and were treated to an amazing drive.  In the end, we decided not to explore the cave because we didn’t feel like we had time and didn’t think Alex was up to doing the steep climb that was required to reach the cave. 

We had a few more miles to go before we reached the end of the road in Kings Canyon, and it was worth every minute of that drive.  The views were gorgeous.  It is an area that isn’t as well visited as other parts of the park, so it was refreshing to be in this remote and beautiful place that wasn’t overly full of people.  We didn’t get to see any interesting wildlife, but the roaring sound of the Kings River and the view of the waterfall were all more than enough to satisfy me.

On to Yosemite (which my older children still love to pronounce as YOHZ-M/EYE/T: hopefully you can figure that out).

Rebecca