Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
Today started like any other day. Waking up early and packing up the room and having some Holiday inn Express. Then we drove to Redwoods National Park. When we got to the visitor center I grabbed a Jr ranger packet. We were planning to backpacking tommorow. My parents were reading through the rules. Then my […]
Read More The day I found my LEAST favorite national ParkYou should’ve said no, you should’ve gone homeYou should’ve thought twice before you let it all go Taylor Swift As I’ve explained here previously, we very intentially skipped San Francisco this trip. Not only did we not want a repeat of RTXVII, we didn’t even want to be in the city where it happened. We […]
Read More Should’ve Said NoWell, this day did not go as planned. And in turn, tomorrow is already off the rails. Our plan was to get to the Redwoods National Park visitors center when they opened at 9 to get a backpacking permit for tomorrow night. We were among the first in line and excitedly asked for the permit. […]
Read More Day 17: RedwoodsWell, today was one of the days where we had to change plans. We were at Redwoods NP before they opened and were among the first in the visitors center. We went to pick up or backpacking permit and signed all of the papers. One of the things though was bolded in red and said […]
Read More Changing Plans at Redwood NPWe made it to the ocean!! It should have been a 3 hour drive but we did so much. We went to the Red Bluff Farmers market, Trader Joe’s, Old Navy, windiest road in the worls, Lunch at Mamma Llama, Big Foot, New hotel, and explored the ocean. We started our adventure by going to […]
Read More Seeing the Ocean and Big RocksToday although we drove 3 hours and did no hiking or for that matter like anything. We did so much today. Now I will give you a list of things we did in the order we did them with a brief description of each event. 1. Red Bluff farmers market – We did not get […]
Read More The day I saw the beachIt’s not some message written in the dark,Or some truth that no one’s seen,It’s a little bit of everything. -Dawes For a day with no plan we managed to pack in an awful lot! In fact it was so much that I’m really not sure where to start, so I think I’ll do this top […]
Read More A Little Bit of EverythingIt was a day of lots of little nothings. I feel like a bullet point list would be most practical. We drove to Redding. Redding had a Trader Joe’s and we instantly felt at home. We stocked up on the necessities: beer, water, and wine. We also grabbed cured meats, asiago, crackers, chips, guacamole, and […]
Read More Day 16: Red Bluff to McKinleyvilleToday I woke on my own. amazing right? Today we did not do much. We started the day with some holiday inn express. Then we drove about an hour to Lassen Volcanic. Our plan was to backpack there but because of all of the snow this year the snow was still towering above me. We […]
Read More The day drove to Lassen VolcanicIt wasn’t a bad day by any means, but it won’t go down as the best day of rtxix. We had heard that there was too much snow to backpack, but I wasn’t expecting to not do any hiking. Our plans changes a bunched of time and each time we were let down.When we walked […]
Read More Day 15: Lassen Volcanic