You can see we weren't sure if we would fit or not! We folded our rear view mirrors in.
Bryan actually couldn't resist driving on this log.
A tree house any little girl would love!
We stopped at this little auto tour and paid the $6.00 fee so that we could 1) drive through a real live tree, 2) visit the tree house and 3) drive on top of a fallen tree. What we won't do for a little excitement! This was in Mayer Flat, one of the little towns in the Avenue of Giants Loop. We met some friendly couples that were doing the same thing we were, a conservative couple from Montana and a tie-dyed hippie couple from Northern CA. We had a good little chat with both.
We passed a lot of little communities like this one, most of them not the tourist destination like Mayer Flat, but just as small and quaint. I always wonder what life is like for the people who live in these little towns. What do they do? Do they know all their neighbors up and down the road? Some of their homes were right on the highway and some were tucked up among the trees and could barely be seen down their dirt lanes. Most of the homes were made of old weather siding, with front porches, screened or not screened. What goes on in these kinds of communities? I stopped at the post office in Mayer Flat to buy some stamps and the customer was reminding the post mistress (is that pc?) about the pumpkin carving for the children on Saturday at one. She acutually used the word folderall. Is that a word? One thought that did occur to me was that if they wanted to get anywhere they had to drive on these up and down and winding roads! I guess it doesn't sound as romantic as I imagined.
It that one tree you are driving through? Did they just cut out the middle? It looks like you are having a lot of fun. Both yours and Bob's little road trips makes me wish we would have stopped and seen more on our drive from Denver to Virginia instead of going straight through. Chances are we will never drive across the U.S. again (hopefully
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