Hi everyone and welcome to day 71 - the Redwoods day! Today we had only 58 miles of riding to do but a pretty exciting route since the last 20 miles of the day we we riding through the famous Avenue of the Giants. Because we did not have a ton of riding to do and not a lot of climbing either, some of us took the chance to make lots of stops along route for things that included but were not limited to: grocery store, rock and minerals store and museum, waffle shop, etc. The stops were necessary to make the first half of the riding a little more fun since our route was mostly going on a freeway with not much of a view.
Once we got to the Avenue of the Giants however, there was much more to see and take pictures with. We saw tons of magnificent huge redwood trees and had a very nice picturesque ride through the forest to our campsite.
We got to our campsite in the heart of the Avenue of the Giants late because of out many stops, but thankfully we had the rare luxury of showers right at the campsite. Afterwards we had our very last camping dinner of beans and hot dogs and our very last night of sleeping in tents :(
-Valerie