The Redwood Highway

After 3 grueling days on Hwy 1 we finally joined up again to Hwy 101, The Redwood Highway.  We drove down the Avenue of Giants and stopped for a walk in the enormous old growth Redwood forest...wow..these trees are huge!

We spent the night in Eureka and met Joel's brother-in-law, Solomon, I guess he is my cousin-in-law?

After a late start we drove through the Redwood National Park.  Terry and I drove south through here on our Harley trip on our honeymoon in 1997, it looked different heading north this time!

The Redwood trees are absolutely massive, we thought that we had huge trees in the northwest with the Sitka spruce but the Redwood tree is the tallest living thing on earth!  The average height is 100-250 ft with the tallest one ever recorded was 379 ft tall!

We stopped at a few touristy places for some photo ops, Michael got to see a 35 ft tall Paul Bunyon and Babe his blue ox!