Day 12

This post is a part of a series on my three and a half week adventure road tripping to the west coast with three of my best friends in the Summer of 2018. I was challenged to write every day of the trip to document the adventure, so I did! My aim was to be as real and raw as possible while I was documenting and writing. Because of this, some days, I was honestly just not interested in writing, so I wrote very matter of fact “this is what we did.”

Check out the first part of the series here: Day 1 or check out a list of the days here: WCT2018

I wrote everything on my phone’s notes app, and below is word-for-word what I wrote each day. Nothing taken out, no elaborations.

As part of the challenge, I also made sure to take at least one picture every day, and each evening when I wrote, I picked one photo that I wanted to feature from that day. Some days it was hard to pick them, and other days I had only one to pick from.

A couple of notes: Each day that I wrote, I wrote the date, where I was writing from, and how many pictures I had taken that day. So the location doesn’t always reflect where the picture was taken.

August 2nd
Blooms Creek Campground - Big Basin Redwoods State Park
Pictures taken: 26

Redwoods! These huge trees definitely lived up to their reputation. We day hiked 10 miles of trail winding through these wooden giants. It’s hard. I try to keep my expectations low with most things on this trip because I find if I go in with high expectations, I am often disappointed. So I keep my expectations low so that I can be even more excited when I see them.

So I wouldn’t lie and say these trees are the coolest, biggest things you’ll ever see in your life. It was truly cool seeing such massive trees, and with that, forests of massive trees, but I’m sad to say, you do kind of get used to them. It’s not quite as bad as “Once you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all” but there is some truth to that.

The trees really were beautiful, and even now as I look up from my sleeping spot, I see these trees stretching up to the sky and I am astounded by how something so big stands so strong. They are beautiful, but they are trees. Beautiful giants. To me, they point to the greatest creator of all. The creator of all earth and all mankind. What a cool God we have.