The Roads Home

Hum-dee-dum.  How to get home from the Sequoia National Forest?  Snow is blocking roads in higher elevations, so we know we will be going down the mountain.  The Interstate will be the quickest road home -- but we don't have to be quick on this trip.

This is why I love the old-fashioned road atlas.  GPS gets you from point A to point B.  The road atlas gives us options!

Let's see.  Down from Sequoia National Park to Three Rivers. (That was an amazing drive!!)  From there to Exeter.  Now is the choice of the Interstate versus the way less traveled.

Okay, we'll go to Porterville. Golly, I wish we could go east from here into the Great Sequoia National Monument's Southern Unit...! Nope. Snowed in.

That, however, reminds me that we are close to where we went last year and discovered Isabella Lake.  It would be fun to go there again.  Wish we had the tent so we could camp, though it might be just a wee bit chilly!

After a bit of palavering with Granpa, we drop down from Porterville to Highway 155 and mosey on over to Kernville and Isabella Lake.  That means we bypass the Tule River Indian Tribe reservation, California Hot Springs, and White River - but that means we have some place new to go the next time we're in the area!

So, Isabella Lake it is...  Isn't it beautiful?!

Well, that is until Granpa puts me in the picture:

The whole drive is precisely why we get off of Interstates.

For more on Kernville and Isabella Lake, go to some of our posts from last year:

http://www.thetravelerstwo.net/2013/10/whiskey-flat-california.html

http://www.thetravelerstwo.net/2013/10/from-whiskey-flat-to-kernville.html

http://www.thetravelerstwo.net/2013/10/makin-movies.html

http://www.thetravelerstwo.net/2013/10/old-kernville-and-lake-isabella.html

http://www.thetravelerstwo.net/2013/10/new-kernville.html

http://www.thetravelerstwo.net/2013/10/the-sierra-nevada-mountains-of.html

And for information on the Giant Sequoias:

http://www.thetravelerstwo.net/2013/10/the-trail-of-100-giants.html