Monday, June 22, 2009

San Simeon


On the 10th we left Wine country and headed for San Simeon. I don't know why we went here it was something my mom wanted. But on the way there we drove on the coastal highway and when they say coastal they mean coastal any closer the the water and we would be in the water. The drive was cool for me but bad for my mom because we also had to do some of that cliff driving again so that was bad. But we got to the SP that we were staying at and the place was a total dump the only thing that was good was the beach. We had no hookup and you had to pay for the showers. But we did go see Elephant seal beach which was awesome. These seal weigh up to 5000 pounds that's heavy. We bought tickets for Hearst castle which is a huge mansion but we didn't see it yet

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Wine country


On the 9th we started to head out of Kingsburg but we had to stop at the Sunmaid place. We bought a big jar of chocolate covered raisins. And i got my picture taken in front of the worlds largest raisin box. After that we started to head into wine country. We stayed at Wine Country Resort in Paso Robles, CA. I loved this campground it was so nice and so quiet. I would

give it 9 out of 10 stars because it was nice and all but there wasnt very many people there. It was $50 so that was pretty insane. But it was nice.

Sequoia NP




On the 8th we went to the park and man where those so big trees. We had to drive for so long just to get to my first sequoia. And we had to drive all over mountains and it was so cold and i forgot to bring my jacket. We were 6000 feet high which is so cold. We saw some

giant trees like general sherman which is the tree with the biggest volume. the other picture was the first one we saw so we got out of the car to get a pictue of this giant tree. I was so tired at the end of the day from walking all around. It was cool and all but looking at trees for 6 hours is dumb.

Kingsburg

On the 7th we left Lone Pine and headed to Kingsburg which is where the Sun maid Raisin store is. We camped here because this campground is close to Sequoia National park. It is called Viking Rv park which is just south of Fresno. When we pulled in to our campground we saw that we had a flat tire so we had to get a new tire but luckly we had AAA. So while he was doing the tire i was in side watching the finals, the Lakers won that game. I would give that campground 6 out of 10 stars.

Death valley


On the 5th we left Las Vegas and drove through death valley. It was so hot and tons of hills and 8% grade. Which is horrible for a RV towing a jeep. It 6 to 7 hours to get to Lone Pine, CA. And when we were going down a hill and our brakes started burning from all of the weight pushing the RV down this hill. We saw tons of little sand storms and sand twisters. We stayed at Boulder Creek RV park which i would give it 4 out of 10. In Lone Pine there is this NP called Manazar which is where they held Japanese people in world war 2. Just in case there was any spys for japan. We saw that and did a tour of the facility. We were in front of MT. Whitney which is a giant mountain.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Dolphins


On the 3rd we went to the mirage and we saw the dolphin exhibit. We saw tons of tricks and we saw lions and tigers and i got my picture taken. I loved the dolphins because they would swim around jump in the air and catch fish. The lions were cool but they just sleeped and didnt really move. We saw lamas and they were running around and drinking out of the lake. The tigers didnt move and were dumb.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Circus Circus




On the 2nd we went to the top of the strip and We saw The Stratosphere which is one of the newest hotels. We stopped in at the Nascar cafe which has everything Nascar and i did a virtual race against some other people and i came in first. I got the stats and it said zero percent break usage, and an average speed of 178 which the lady said is impressive. Then we walked down to Circus Circus and we saw a part of the circus act which was cool and weird. We had a short trip this time because we had to get something to eat and go to walmart.