CA road trip August 23

28-31 August 2023

Red Rock Canyon State Park
Desolate, HOT, and closed for the month of August. 🙁
Cesar Chavez National historic park. Learned so much!
The grounds are so beautiful!
Sequoia national Park
Kings Canyon
The moon was so full and beautiful!
Fresno California temple
Camped at millerton lake state park
Yosemite National Park – Mariposa Grove
The most rate sight in the park – no one standing in this tree 😊
Some stunning artwork in the visitor center
The Valley
Found a lovely spot near the river
And a
Found a beautiful little short hike up the Cascades

Chilled there for a while
McConnell State Recreation Area
Went to the open house of the new temple in Feather River
Stopped at the famous Vic’s soda shoppe
And caught the Jelly Belly Factory just as they closed
Did baptisms at the Oakland temple. Used my digital recommend and was the first one ever there. I was a rockstar! I guess my temple district is the only one in the US piloting the program
Walked through the rooftop garden afterward
Drove up Mount Diablo
And camped there. I saw a tarantula on the road on the way up so I didn’t the whole night having nightmares that tarantulas had gotten into my car hags
The moon. Incredible that night.
Did not die by tarantula 😊
The view by day
Henry W Coe state park
Went on a short hike
Made even shorter by these in the path
And this alarming shirt in the visitor center. Shudder
San Juan Bautista state park
So many buggies!
Fish and chips and then Book of Will in Solvang. Drove home that night instead of going further up the coast. I picked up a shift for the next night.