Yesterday we drove 2 hours from El Portal (near Yosemite) to Three Rivers (near Sequoia and Kings Canyon). Jimbo & I had to stop along the way to get our oil changed. It’s hard to believe we’ve put close to 10,000 miles on the truck since we left home in May!
Today we visited Sequoia National Park. Took a lot of driving up long winding roads to get to the Sherman Tree trailhead, but we finally made it. After a short hike, there it was... the biggest tree in the world! These things are massive. They’re not only tall, but wide from the base all the way to the top. The base of the Sherman Tree is 36.5 feet in diameter and it’s 275 feet tall! They estimate that it’s 2,200 years old. That means it was “born” around the same time as Jesus!