Thursday March 12th, 2015 As soon as we woke up we wanted to get out of Grants Pass. We packed up and got back on the road to California after a few hours of driving we crossed the state line. This stretch of the drive we saw many weird things, one being this store in the woods called the Legend Of Sasquatch. There was this wooden statue of Shreck and he looked very Asian. We eventually drove into the Redwood forrest and the trees were humongous. It was really cool to see.

We came out of one section of the forrest into this town, I can’t remember the name of it. While we were in town we got coffee from Dutch Bros, that’s like a chain coffee place that’s mainly in the northwest. Then we got fish tacos and went and saw the ocean. It was a really nice area too. We continued on our drive and went back into the Forrest, I think we drove in it for 4 hours, we were in there forever. We came across a tree that cars can actually drive through so we wanted to do that, it turns out that our was was too wide so we just got a picture with me next to it.

We got back on the road and at this point i’m sick of driving and we’re getting hungry. My mom really wanted stake so we stopped at an Outback Steakhouse and got dinner. After dinner we went back to driving but then we could see the Golden Gate Bridge and we knew that we were close! We crossed the bridge and made it to our hotel where we promptly fell asleep.

Friday March 13th, 2015 Today we woke up and we went to the piers, we were going on tour of Alcatraz. Alcatraz is really cool because it’s a jail on an island. We walked around for a few hours and it got me thinking how awful being here must have been because the facility was bad. I know it had been shut down for years but still. We got back to the mainland and we decided to do a jump on jump off bus tour thing, biggest waste of money ever. We drove around the city and they told us some facts but the entire thing was kinda lame.

We jumped off at Fishermans Wharf and saw the sea lions and ate lunch. After we ate we hopped back on and drove around some more and went back to our car.

Saturday March 14th, 2015 This was the day I was looking forward to all trip. Today was the day I got to see the Chicago Black Hawks play the San Jose Sharks. I love the Blackhawks and when I saw that they were going to be there at the same time I had to go. In the morning we got some breakfast and then headed to San Jose. We got to the arena and went inside, I think we had 7th row or something in that area. It was so much fun plus the Blackhawks won 6-2 so that was pretty cool! After the game we went outside and it was 85 degrees…in March. I don’t remember much from the rest of the day.

Sunday March 15th, 2015 This was the day that we were leaving but our flight didn’t leave till 6pm out of Oakland. In the morning we packed up the car, checked out, and then we went and took pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge. We wanted to get a better few so we went up on this hill to take pictures but there was loads of people. We eventually drove around and I guess we were In Golden Gate park. We came across a beach area that had surfers, swimmers, and people just chilling on the beach. I think surfing is super cool so I got some pretty good action shots of the surfers. Then it was time to head to Oakland to fly home. We dropped off our car at the rental car place, we didn’t tell them about the flat tire, and they didn’t say anything so that was a personal victory for us. We got to the airport and our flight was delayed a couple of hours so we decided to get dinner at a restaurant in the airport and then we boarded the airplane and flew home.

This trip was one of the best trips i’ve been on and I am lucky to be able to have had these experiences that I will always carry with me.

Thanks for Traveling with me

– Ryan