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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
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.
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Wrong species, asshole. All of the famous drive-thrus are
sempervirens. The two I've done are in Leggett and Myers Flat. If you went to Muir Woods, you were off by about three and a half hours.
