Day Seventeen: Tuesday, June 5th, Sequoia’s Last Stand

---

Big Trees.

Indeed.

The little energy we had to expend today took up up to General Sherman, and the desperately-in-need-of-renovation Lodgepole Visitor Center.

The Giant Forest Museum further down was quite nice yesterday, but the Visitor Center up by the Lodge is stuck in the wrong century. I can only hope it’s next on the agenda!

We were running on borrowed steam today, and after lunch, we could hear our puzzle calling us from the valley below…

Mental Stimulation… Cooperative Family Time… Air Conditioning…

And down the mountains we went.

 

 

And we finished.

Not before closing time, but the nice lady at the front desk gave us a key, and we worked happily into the evening. Never fear, the solution was checked and double-checked. We nailed it.

---

And now for a public service announcement from Kris’s Dragon Spa:

Yep, Baby Gerard Alexander was born late last night, our very first grandchild.

 

 

He’s pretty cute.

---

Tomorrow we hit the road for Utah. I can only imagine that the heat situation isn’t going to improve much, but we’ll make the best of it. If we never return, we melted somewhere in Nevada.

‘Til then,
Grandma KJ

---

The Whole Enchilada:

• Whirlwind Indeed: Ready the Mailbags (6/16/2018)
• Day One: Sunday, May 20th, Billings, MT (6/17/2018)
• Day Two: Monday, May 21st, Coeur d’Alene, ID (6/18/2018)
• Day Three: Tuesday, May 22nd, Trail (Crater Lake), OR (6/19/2018)
• Day Four: Wednesday, May 23rd, Crater Lake continued… (6/20/2018)
• Day Five: Thursday, May 24th, Crater Lake marches on… (6/21/2018)
• Day Six: Friday, May 25th, Bandon (The People’s Coast), OR (6/22/2018)
• Day Seven: Saturday, May 26th, Bandon and Beyond (6/23/2018)
• Day Eight: Sunday, May 27th, the Coast continues on… (6/24/2018)
• Day Nine: Monday, May 28th, Memorial Day on the Ocean (6/25/2018)
• Day Ten: Tuesday, May 29th, Humboldt Redwoods, CA (6/26/2018)
• Day Eleven: Wednesday, May 30th, Yosemite Pines RV Resort (6/27/2018)
• Day Twelve: Thursday, May 31st, Yosemite (6/28/2018)
• Day Thirteen: Friday, June 1st, Another Day in Yosemite, Hetch Hetchy Beckons (6/29/2018)
• Day Fourteen: Saturday, June 2nd, Finishing Up at Yosemite (6/30/2018)
• Day Fifteen: Sunday, June 3rd, Sequoia RV Ranch, Three Rivers, CA (7/1/2018)
• Day Sixteen: Monday, June 4th, Sequoia-Kings Canyon (7/2/2018)
• Day Seventeen: Tuesday, June 5th, Sequoia’s Last Stand (7/3/2018)
• Day Eighteen: Wednesday, June 6th, Through the Desert to Hurricane, UT (7/4/2018)
• Day Nineteen: Thursday, June 7th, Zion National Park, and more… (7/5/2018)
• Day Twenty: Friday, June 8th, Bryce Canyon and the long road to Boulder… (7/6/2018)
• Day Twenty-One: Saturday, June 9th, Chateau de Boj, Boulder, CO (7/7/2018)
• Day Twenty-Two: Sunday, June 10th, More Boulder Respite… (7/8/2018)
• Day Twenty-Three: Monday, June 11th, Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety Jog (7/9/2018)
• Day Twenty-Four: Tuesday, June 12th, Greetings (7/10/2018)
• About that thing… (2/8/2019)