Freebird Journey

And just like that…we’re in the Pacific Northwest.  Well, after 5000+ miles that is!  After leaving Napa we went north and west just under 300 miles to the Redwoods.  Wow!  The Redwoods are amazing!  The whole forest is amazing.  So green and lush and wet.  Did I mention wet?  Moss and ferns are everywhere.

We stayed for a week at Azalia Glen RV Park just outside of Trinidad, CA.  The RV Park is small, and someone there has a green thumb because every inch is landscaped.  Rustic landscaping.  Not perfect or perhaps, it is perfectly undone.  Spring will be spectacular.  Blooms were just beginning when we left.  The park was about 8 miles north of Trinidad.  We have read that some people use their RV excursions to find their next home base.  Trinidad certainly ticks a lot of boxes for us except for lack of family nearby and no major airport.  But it is a pretty little town right on the water with a working marina and the Redwoods nearby. 

If you have not seen the Redwoods, try to make plans to do so.  They are simply majestic.  The Redwood National Park and three CA state parks have joined together to protect and restore the Redwood Old Growth Forest.  The hiking trails are spectacular.  And they were very wet!  And this is yet another National Park that Loki could not hike with us.  But they have been a highlight of our trip.  We hiked in the forest and walked on the beach as much as we could when it wasn’t raining.  But it rained a lot!

The weather for the majority of our trip has been typical of late winter and early spring.  And I’ve never experienced wind like we have had.  I thought once we were out of the desert, we wouldn’t have so much wind.  But I was wrong.  Looking forward to some “late” spring weather!

*Fun fact: Redwoods develop burls on their trunk.  These burls contain the entire genetic code for that tree.  When the tree is stressed, children (clones because they are genetically identical) trees sprout from the burl at the base of the parent tree and can develop “fairy rings” or “family circles”.  Rings of many Redwoods all genetically identical.