First steps

I haven't actually left San Francisco for real yet--the exit party is tomorrow--but I took a couple of days to see some California sights before taking off:


Sequoia National Park
and


Kings Canyon National Park.
If you want to visit the Sierra without dealing with the crowds of Yosemite, you should definitely head up/down/over to these two beautiful parks. The biggest tree in the world! How much cooler does it get?!