Mr. Toad's Wild Ride over hill and dale

And it was a wild ride.

It started innocently enough and we woke up after

boondocking at the Grizzly Creek Park

to the haze on the mountains.

 And a bridge.

 And then we entered Humboldt Redwood Park.

OMGEE...the trees are huge, beautiful and the entire forest

is magical.

 There also was a bit of nip in the air.

They are very very tall and normally I'd lay

on the ground to get the immenseness of them.

 But I decided to get the dimenision using our rig 

that looks like a mini car next to the trees.

 And a burl. 

They are sooooo coool.

 So the roads in the park are ugly. Really ugly.

Alot of twisty, turny curves that with big rig or towing 

caused problems, along with losse gravel and of course rude drivers

that made everything crazy because rigs just couldn't

maneuver that fast and really tried to get

out of the way but rude drivers made it worse.

 And didn't that take the enjoyment out of the ride.

Also, we decided to check out a lighthouse so we took this

road that was even worse than the park.

Ruts so big I thought we were headed to the center of the earth.

The inside of our rig looked like it was ransacked

by random thieves on that road.

It also was a loose gravel, big ruts, on a road that pretended

to be two lanes that had nail biting dropoffs

because the road was washed out in certain places.

And we FINALLY AFTER HOURS get to the road with the lighthouse

and the sign says MOTORHOMES NOT RECOMMENDED

on this road.

Seriously?????

So we had to cross this bridge with wooden slats in order

to get out of that area and it took a few more

hours of the same road to wind up right back where

we started in the redwood forest.

Whew!

 So evidently this redwood fell across the road and had to 

be whacked in order to clear the road.

 This one is as big as our rig.

So glad to be back on dry land after that ride.

We nestled in at the Emerald Forest campground and

did mundane things like laundry

and putting everything back where it belonged.

Headed for the Redwood National Park today where the trees

are even bigger. I can't imagine.

However, if the roads suck - that may be a game changer.

It was a tense road day yesterday that I really don't want to repeat.