Okay. Imagine a fat middle aged lesbian with green hair and a teenage boy with matching green sunglasses, driving through the middle of a small town with rap music booming out the window of a subaru forester. Were we cool, or what? This was just one of the many experiences I've had in the last 5 days. Add in 9 skateparks, a volcano, 3 herds of elk, 5 starfish, 400 photos, 3 trips through taco bell drive through, 1 episode of psychic taco sense, 3 tanks of gas, 1 night with 1000 bugs, 2 redwood parks, 1 case of the town swallowing dunes, 19 rap songs, 18 dollars won on scratchoffs, countless text messages, 1 panicky night without cell phone service and 1 6 cd set of Dave Chappelle and you pretty much have our road trip.
What an adventure.
We arrived at crater lake after the night of 1000 bugs (and the axe murderer motel) - 7a.m., completely alone, on the rim of crater lake. The mist was still on the lake and the sky was a vivid morning blue. It was amazing. From there, we headed southwest toward the redwoods. These were, in El Nino's words, "big huge". Amazingly enough, despite a parking lot full of tourists, the actual path we chose through the redwoods was completely deserted. Another magical moment.
We found a room in Crescent City, California in a motel owned by a self proclaimed "poor portugee" and used that as our base for the next 2 days.
Turns out El Nino is an amazing photographer. If you want to check out some of his photos (mostly not from this trip but from other trips of his), I will post his flickr on "favorite sites" on the right.
More details later...we have to go have another adventure.
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