Bears and giant trees at Sequoia National Park
After detouring to visit the Grand Canyon in Arizona (see our route in my previous post), we continued westward through California’s sere Mojave Desert. At last the land rose and formed the Golden State’s crinkled, tawny hills, stubbled with spreading, olive-green live oaks.
By mid-afternoon we’d reached the Sierra Nevada mountains and the entrance to Sequoia National Park.