Day 89: Trinidad, CA

Stop 56 / State 1 (again):  Trinidad, CA

Today, we traveled about 200 miles and finally found our way back to California. Our trip took us down the Rogue River as far as Grants Pass and then along a number of other rivers through some beautiful redwood forests to the coast above Crescent City.

Here's our final state sign (apologies for the glare on the windshield).

Coming down the coast from Crescent City, we passed through many more beautiful Redwood Forests (including Prairie Creek State Park where we used to go camping when the kids were young). At one point, we spotted a couple of elk beside the road and Kristen was able to get this picture of one of them.

Here's today's trailer picture. We are so deep in the forest that it is dark most of the day. Supposedly, a lot of Elk frequent the area in the evenings so we'll be going out to look soon.

Later, after dinner, we went looking for elk. This is a shot of the ocean across the road from the campground:

We didn't see any elk but we did see this sign which would seem to indicate that they should be here:

The schoolhouse that the sign refers to is in our campground:

We gave up our elk search for the moment and returned to the trailer. Later, we were watching a video (no TV, wi-fi or phone here) when what should walk past the window but a large buck:

Maybe we'll have better luck spotting elk in the morning.

-J-