Majesty!

I spent the entire day singing "Majesty!" or "Oh Lord, oh Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!" You can ask Rory. I've been hum singing all day. We left Bandon this morning, drove the coast, saw cranberry bogs that are soon to be harvested and arrived at our sweet KOA in Jedidiah Redwood National Park in Northern California. We have a cabin for the next two nights:

This is a great shot of Rory, working from our front porch. Strangely, we have both accomplished a lot on this trip work wise. And that feels good. The next picture is taken from our porch...it's the root system of a fallen redwood. Incredible. We drove into the state park for a hike this afternoon and I began singing Majesty again. Check out these pictures.

We got a YURT!!!

On Sunday my sister-in-law Stephanie told us we really should try to see if we could find a YURT to stay in while heading down the coast. So yesterday the stars aligned and we arrived at Cape Lookout State Park to land the last yurt available for the night.

Yurt stands for Year-round U-something Recreational Tent. They have electricity and heat and feel much more like a cabin with canvas walls than anything else. It reminded us a lot of the banda we stayed in on our safari in Tanzania.

We had a blast. We slept well, we ate well and we were right on the ocean. I'd like to thank my girl scout leaders from 2nd-8th grade, Judy Pugh and Leanne Snyder, for the delicious dessert below that I had tucked into my memory of fantastic camping treats. I "roasted" caramel on a long stick over the fire until it was just about to fall off and sandwiched it between two saltines. It is crazy-good, similar to a salted nut roll.

Rory made spaghetti and suddenly we had four uninvited dinner guests. And these raccoons were very, very tame. Any attempt we made to send them on their way had very little impact. They simply tipped their heads and looked at us as if to say, "it is very obvious you are going to have leftovers."

We saw many beautiful sites today. I'll leave you with my favorites.