Shel: Driving Miss Geni! It looks like we are ahead of schedule. Trying to decide which way to go now :) Today was a nice easy day - mostly downhill as we started out the day at 6000' and are now at about 300' above sea level. Took a ten mile dirt road ride through the redwoods - boy are they big"!

Geni: Drove up to an overlook at Crater Lake before we left to get one more look at the beautiful blue water, except it wasn't. We don't know if it was because the sun hadn't risen far or if it was still the smoke blowing in, but boy were we lucky to see that blue lake the day we came in.

Once we got to Redwood Forest we took a drive around Howland Hill Road which turned out to be a windy, unpaved narrow road that was 10 miles long (a 45 minute drive). At one site, along the road, we walked a trail and saw really gigantic trees. I'm guessing that we will see the same trees other places tomorrow, so I wouldn't advise driving down that road. The trees themselves are not to be seen around our parts, but what is just as amazing is nature's artwork -- all the trees that have fallen and how they land and how they decay are just as interesting to observe.