Grants Grove, CA

General Grant Tree

After a frustrating day of not getting Andrew's car back from the shop as promised and having to get a rental, we headed for Sequoia National Forest and Kings Canyon, California.  Crazy us decided to take the "short-cut" the GPS offered through the mountains instead of staying on the Interstate like google suggested.  We had already lost time dealing with the car so we figured saving an hour driving sounded good.  Worst decision, we ended up losing an extra hour due to the crazy, winding roads through the mountains where we couldn't go more than 20 miles per hour and Andrew got motion sick.  We were in the middle of nowhere with no way out, except to go all the way back, when we saw a sign that said road construction with delays up to 80 minutes.  Thank God our delay only ended up being 10 minutes or I probably would have had a break down in the car.  We did make it to Grant Grove that evening and got some time to explore the giant sequoias before heading to our cabin for the night.