Ten Days - Part Five - Ents & Sleeping To Waves Crashing

Ewoks, yes yes the Ewoks. We hiked through the magical Redwood Forest of Endor after a breath-taking safari-like car ride. We stopped for a mini-warm up hike and then moved onto the intermediate. Such fond times. Singing improvised songs and rapping based on nonsense hip-swaying (you'd have to be there). Many times we'd take off running through the trails which was grandish. We had our morning prayer beside a waterfall. Swapped stories of the recencies of life, and God.

[yes this is rather a short way to describe most of a day, but hey, that's where pictures come in real handy - and I need to figure out a way to get free album-like online publishing for the trip]

So after the Coastal Trails at Enderts Beach, we drove on right through a tree (after some bonus sight-seeing - yes more twisty driving - yes it is my fault we had to drive through the tree in the dark because I didn't read the sign very carefully). Then we traveled the original highway, which was a potted dirt road, until we came to the top of [a] High Bluff. We stared out at the ocean and prayed and sang with the slightest remaining hints of twilight. We were tired, it was dark, the road was rough. So we camped in a turnout and went to bed with only a little poppy-cock for dinner. Even though we went to bed obscenely early at 8:30 (which meant we were very silly for a while), we were groggy after nine hours of sleep.
But it was rainy and we needed to get going so we 'hurriedly' took down the tent and left at the crack of dawn, or slightly earlier.

We drove until Eureka before having breakfast at 8 at Adel's, a quaint diner Jamie would've enjoyed. I had a Belgian waffle and silliness ensued over some pink table decorations. Were they edible?
Again we took scenic detours to satisfy our Redwood addictions. I was sad not to have any battery power for RJ's camera because the country side continued to change but remain magnificent. Then we chose the coastal detour highway that decided our fate. Instead of reaching San Fran at 1:30, it would be 5.

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