Redwoods

About 750 miles into our trip and under 300 miles left to San Francisco, we are running a bit ahead of schedule. In other words, we are proudly overperforming and exceeding our own expectations and plans. We keep trying to take an easy day, but end up with 70 miles by evening anyway. Our enthusiasm is running as high as ever and our physical shape is getting better everyday.
Good for us because yesterday we had one of the most difficult days of our trip with two of the biggest climbs packed just a few hours of travel away from each other. Over 1000 feet of elevation each. Piece of cake, and that's all it was, although just two weeks ago such a climb would have killed us.
Difficult but also very rewarding those climbs were because they took us through two redwood national parks. These millennium-old sequoia forests were truly awe-inspiring, like our guide book put it. Each of these trees was as wide as the road that passed by it. And there were hundreds if not thousands of them. Riding by them on a tiny bicycle, surrounded by mist, with dispersed sun rays shining through, really felt like exploring a foreign planet. No words can really describe how impressive it was, so we took tons of pictures and even shot videos, which will hopefully eventually make their way to this blog. But even that will hardly come close what it felt like for us riding through these ancient trees...
Time's up their kicking me out of the library!