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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
As the hillbilly said of infant baptism, "Believe in it? Hell, I seen it done." I have personally driven a 2004 Passat wagon through two redwood trees and lived to tell the tale.
This requires a Passat of no particular vintage but a redwood tree of 200+ years. A homeowner with patience and foresight could turn their garden gate into a profitable roadside attraction. However, by that time California real estate will be upwards of $2,000/sq ft and there may be cashflow problems.
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thank you everyone for listening to this lesson is careful family vacation planning. My midwest ignorance as to the remaining redwood species in North America was taken advantage of by Atticus' follow up, hooking yet another rube into a trip to the bay area to see "trees you can drive through".
Like my family ended up driving up to Muir woods, only to be disappointed by the vast groves of Sequoia sempervirens. No tunnels through them, and if there were they'd be limited to bicycle sized tunnels.
I of course, regret my one chance to have seen Sequoiadendron giganteum. Having wrapped some discovery in Fresno quite early, we realized we were an hour away from some Redwood park and we had 5 hours to kill. A quick decision was made to spend the hours in the bar rather than on the road to see God's handiwork, and maybe drive through a tree.
To this day I regret the decison, and try to make up for it by doing things like going to Muir woods, and being disappointed.
The irony is that my travelling companion and I were cut off by the flight attendant quite early in the flight due to our inebriated status. That is, by spending the 5 hours drinking on the front end we lost 4 hours of drinking on the back end, AND we missed the chance to see the trees.
Atticus and I planned this lesson to reenforce the need for research prior to your family trips.
