Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Cruisn' USA

Who else had Nintendo 64? This was the only game console I grew up with because my parents would not allow us to play video games until whenever the 64 version came out. Therefore, I was deprived from the classic mario and donkey kong games but I did have this:



If you didn't play this game, I don't know what your parents problems were, because its the greatest. You can probably just go to the nearest movie theatre and play it in their videogame section. So go now.

I was particularly fond of the route in that youtube video for some reason. So, when we were planning our trip to San Francisco/Napa, I desperately wanted to go up north to see the Redwood Forest. And it looked EXACTLY the same as I pictured it would. Nintendo, you are amazing. Behold:


Our trip up to the Redwoods was actually a bit of a trek. We flew into SF, rented a car (an intense Chrysler  300) and drove (what should have been) about 5 hours up north. Last minute, we decided to take a more scenic route up the pacific highway. This gave us some breathtaking views. With its ridiculously windy course up the mountains it probably added on about 2.5 hours but we both agreed it was well worth it.

Hugging the tree.

Inside of a huge tree.

We drove all the way up to Eureka because our plan was to drive even farther north in the morning to go to the actual Redwood National Park. Note: don't go to Eureka unless you'd like to feel like you've traveling about 20 years into the past. Weird weird place. By that time, we were exhausted with driving and had seen so much of the forest already we didn't feel it was necessary to go to the actual park. We drove through the "Avenue of the Giants" park on the way back and even drove our car through one of the oldest and biggest trees!

These trees are amazing and you should really go see them for yourself if you're ever in northern California. Pictures cannot do them justice.

Next up, Napa!
--peacelovetreesgerms


1 comment:

  1. Hey Megan! Just wanted to let you know that Kevin and I find your blog highly entertaining :) Glad to hear you're having fun! Lets go to 21 when y'all get back

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