From Las Vegas, we drove about 6 hours to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park. We've heard of these amazing large trees but we didn't imagine them to be this big! You feel like tiny ants walking among them! The General Sherman Tree which is the largest (not tallest) living tree in the world is about 1500 square meters in volume and has a base circumference of 31 meters!
Before heading to San Diego, our final stop, we checked in in a nice "real" hotel in Indian Wells near Palm Springs: the Miramonte Resort & Spa. We booked this great hotel on a discount through Jetsetter (I recommended it before in this post - definitely check this site before booking your hotels!).
Two days ago, we arrived in San Diego for the road trip finale... We were thinking of relaxing at the beach but once again, we couldn't resist to see the sights. So, we visited La Jolla with its seals:
The Gaslamp District in San Diego:
The Coronado Hotel (where Some Like It Hot was filmed with Marylin Monroe):
And we did some last minute shopping, mainly window shopping, this being the end of our three month road trip slash budget but I just had to go see some of my favorite American stores before leaving.
As a side note, and because we're fanatic Apple fans, while we were in the mall, we saw - of course - one of Apple's famous concept stores and next to it... this ridiculous concept store selling Microsoft products which happened to look exactly like the famous Apple stores. Microsoft imitated everything from the slick, glass, minimalist design to the "Apple guys" with colorful t-shirts helping customers with their questions. Pretty sad... guess Microsoft's marketing department ran out of ideas (see this article for more info).
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