Day Ten - Wednesday

Hello all! We are currently in Central Point, Oregon. Today was fairly uneventful. We left San Francisco at around 10 and drove up along the "scenic" route on the coast. Katie is sure that "scenic" is code for "curvy, narrow, steep, mountain road". However, it was absolutely beautiful. We drove through several groves of redwoods, it was amazing! These trees are so tall and huge! The forest was just so peaceful and the light drifting down to the ground just looks so cool. I kept trying to take pictures but the batteries ran out so I don't know how many came out. Driving along the coast was also really, really beautiful. The ocean is so awesome! I could look at mountains and water all the time. Now I remember why I LOVE the west coast! Near the border of Oregon we cut back inland in preparation for visiting crater lake tomorrow. So that should be nifty. We drove up to some little town a little closer to crater lake but they didn't have any place to stay and the next little town only had "motels" and "inns", which we have been trying to avoid, lol! So we hopped on the interstate for a few more exits to a more civilized town. Today wasn't all scenery though, we saw a photo shoot for the people who hold the slow/stop signs for road construction. It looked very professional. I also saw a black bear walking through someone's back yard. I thought it was a cow and I got all excited because I like cows but then I realized it had fur so I thought it was a dog but then as we got closer I realized it was too big to be a dog and it was actually a bear! It was nifty. Anyways, I think that's all for now. Katie and I were so careful to get to a hotel in time to watch Lost, although we couldn't decide if it was on at 8 or 9 so we were here at 8 and this hour is just a stupid recap episode...*sigh*....oh well, night all!

Quote of the Day: "Beauty is an all-pervading presence...it waves in the branches of the trees and in the green blades of grass...the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and the setting sun, all overflow with beauty...the greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire." William Ellery Channing

Fun Mormon Fact of the Day: The Mormon church has over 120 temples worldwide.


Questions to ponder:
How did the redwood trees get so big and what keeps them from falling over?
What is a/the "confusion hill" in California?