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🌲Five years ago this week I drove through five hours of redwoods. I didn’t realize there were so many redwoods but it was petty incredible watching them grow from a regular tall cedar in Muir Woods National Park outside of San Francisco to eventually how they built route 254 around these rooted beasts. There’s a reason why they call this road “the avenue of the giants” but it’s fair to say these trees have long-earned this credit knowing they are the very tallest on the face of the entire planet. Wrap your head around that for a second. One thing I remember the most in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, outside of Crescent City near Orick, and as north and sometimes as tall and as old as they get until you hit Oregon, was the smell. I had never heard anyone mention the antique cedar smell that would permeate my already-awakened senses. Maybe because they don’t appreciate the smell of antique wood like I do. It was a mixture of toasted thousand year old spiced cedar wrapped in the preserved dome of a rainforest. Toasted chlorophyll, if there ever was such a thing. I will never ever forget it. I travel not for anyone else but solely for my personal experience. For the foreign and invigorating smells, to see the big world with my eyes, and touch the ancient structure or natural wonder with my skin, to hear bustling sounds of a capital city or the noise of a frozen river rushing underneath the ice, to willingly absorb a very different culture steeped in a very different religion, to fuel my body and soul with unique food I might never taste twice. To be mentally inspired all over again and eventually, and maybe even artistically, share my experiences with my own words and my own photographs. Because even though I’ve traveled 19 years selfishly for myself, I don’t think it’s fair to keep it all to myself if I can help another with my exposure to make their experience all the better or just to help light the fire of wanderlust.🌲 #redwoods #redwoodsnationalpark nationalpark #pacificnorthwest #california #johnmuir #nationalparks #nationalparkservice #avenueofthegiants #redwoodstatepark #redwoodoriginal

🌲Five years ago this week I drove through five hours of redwoods. I didn’t realize there were so many redwoods but it was petty incredible watching them grow from a regular tall cedar in Muir Woods National Park outside of San Francisco to eventually how they built route 254 around these rooted beasts. There’s a reason why they call this road “the avenue of the giants” but it’s fair to say these trees have long-earned this credit knowing they are the very tallest on the face of the entire planet. Wrap your head around that for a second. One thing I remember the most in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, outside of Crescent City near Orick, and as north and sometimes as tall and as old as they get until you hit Oregon, was the smell. I had never heard anyone mention the antique cedar smell that would permeate my already-awakened senses. Maybe because they don’t appreciate the smell of antique wood like I do. It was a mixture of toasted thousand year old spiced cedar wrapped in the preserved dome of a rainforest. Toasted chlorophyll, if there ever was such a thing. I will never ever forget it. I travel not for anyone else but solely for my personal experience. For the foreign and invigorating smells, to see the big world with my eyes, and touch the ancient structure or natural wonder with my skin, to hear bustling sounds of a capital city or the noise of a frozen river rushing underneath the ice, to willingly absorb a very different culture steeped in a very different religion, to fuel my body and soul with unique food I might never taste twice. To be mentally inspired all over again and eventually, and maybe even artistically, share my experiences with my own words and my own photographs. Because even though I’ve traveled 19 years selfishly for myself, I don’t think it’s fair to keep it all to myself if I can help another with my exposure to make their experience all the better or just to help light the fire of wanderlust.🌲 #redwoods #redwoodsnationalpark nationalpark #pacificnorthwest #california #johnmuir #nationalparks #nationalparkservice #avenueofthegiants #redwoodstatepark #redwoodoriginal

#redwoods #redwoodsnationalpark #pacificnorthwest #california #johnmuir #nationalparks #nationalparkservice #avenueofthegiants #redwoodstatepark #redwoodoriginal

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