22-Day Roadtrip Through The Far West — Day 13: Three Rivers

Previous day — Day 12: Mojave Desert

Today is another long stage away from our current location, a transition day among other things.

We want to get to Three Rivers to do Sequoia Park tomorrow. It’s a 3.5-hour drive to Three Rivers. We get up quietly and have breakfast, then set off without wasting any time.

We don’t even make any stops en route, as we’re taking the highway to save time. We arrive in Three Rivers at around 1 p.m. and take the opportunity to eat in a gift shop restaurant.

After lunch, we take a short hike beside a river. The water is very blue, which combined with the surrounding 38°C heat, makes us want to dive in. But we save that for later in the afternoon and finish our hike in peace.

Afterward, we pick up the keys to our accommodation and spend some time at the motel. We head out again 2 hours before sunset. We’d like to find a hike in the area, but there’s nothing, or we’d have to enter Sequoia Park and save that for tomorrow. We find a viewpoint that looks interesting on the map, located at the top of a mountain, ideal for getting an overview. To get…