THE CALIFORNIA REDWOODS, ARE BEAUTIES!
My wife and I decided to take a trip to the Callifornia Redwoods from Foster City. It would take less that three hours, if there isn't any traffic. Just to get out of the house and into the open space, it was worth it.
By the way, did you know that there are one hundred and twenty thousand acres of Redwood Trees in Northern California open to the public.
These majstic trees that seem to reach into space are located just across the Golden Gate Bridge and about an hour ride north; that is, on a good day with little traffic. There is a grove of redwood trees, about five hundred acres, that draws by far the most visitor. this is Muir Woods.
Muir Woods is located about fourty-five minutes from San Francisco. A Mr. kent, who owned land near the redwoods and a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, loved the giant redwoods and persuaded President Roosevelt, who loved the outdoors, to have the grove proclaimed as a national mounument.
In 1908, the grove became a national monument and was named after Joun Muir, a Scottish American naturalist. In 1968, the National Redwood Park was established near the Oregan Border.
To get to Muir Woods from San Francisco and Foster City, you go across the Golden Gate Bridge and proceed up US Highway 101, turn west at the Mill Valley turn off, and follow the signs that would lead you to the park.
Walking through the park, near the trees, you get the feeling of movement and height. The movement takes place in the mind of the person when a cloud passes by overhead. On the ground you can see the tracks of the animals that live in the park, especially, the flower of the woods---a skunk.
We spent several hours in the park looking around, hiking the trails, and then headed back to Foster City. We just missed the fog and traffic and we were back home by seven o'clock.
It was a way of spending, just the two of us, a nice day in California's redwoods.
