Encountering Giants

On the road through the Sequoia National Forest.
Within a few hundred miles we have driven a desert road and now a forest road….

This Sequoia beauty is 1500 years old and 245' tall

 Lyrical sounding names -  Ponderosa Pines, Sugar Pines, Incense Cedars, White Firs coexist with these giant Sequoias. I even glimpsed my first chipmunk for the trip, cute Alvin….

Wolf lichen adding vibrant color on the bark of a White Fir

Filtered light in the forest.

Exposed roots of a Sequoia that fell in the 1800's.

PS: I was in a coffee shop in Reno, and Alvin was looking down at me from the lintel. Asked him to join us and took a quick photo - what attitude.

Foodie Interlude - Yelp.com and biscuits

Cracked Egg Cafe, Kernville

A morning routine while my coffee is brewing, is to check what is trending on Yelp.com, a social media site with ratings and comments on local businesses, for top breakfast spots in towns that we are passing through.

Like this morning, we were driving mountain roads through the Sequoia National Forest and I picked Cracked Egg Cafe, a gem in Kernville, a diner with locals meeting for coffee, catching up on their news, waitress back and forth with coffee pot refilling my mug, local newspaper for soduku.

Classic counter chairs and an old black and white tiled floor. I could picture Jack Reacher sitting back to the wall and watching the door drinking his hot, black coffee.

Lovely.





Eating twice a day is a good strategy when faced with breakfast here in US. I decided to be a bit more adventurous this morning and ordered the biscuit side, as opposed to the standard sourdough bread.

It was a light and quite delicious scone.

Think I will pass on the gravy though.
Its good with marmalade.

And the O'Brien's turned out to be hash browns with bell peppers and onions, we learn.