Muir Woods National Monument

This weekend was a long holiday because of Memorial Day. It was cloudy today, but I wanted to drive somewhere. I remembered that my big boss recommended Muir Woods National Monument last week. I decided to go there. I am always wondering why I, living in CA for two years, am always taught about sightseeing spots by visitors coming from Japan.

Everything seemed to be going well. However, when I got to San Francisco, Highway 101 was terribly backed up. Eventually, it took one hour to go through San Francisco. I drove over the Golden Gate Bridge and took Highway 1.

While I was driving on the access road to Muir Woods National Monument, the access road was backed up. This jam was not serious, so I could get out of it in about half an hour.

Finally, I got to the entrance, but I couldn't find a parking lot. I drove searching for a vacant shoulder space. A few minutes afterwards I was able to find a space a long way from the entrance. It was a 20 minute walk from the parking space to the entrance.

When I got there, I was too tired to be impressed. In addition, I took a lot of pictures but most of the pictures were out of focus because I didn't enable the auto focus function. Now the only thing I can write about is that there were a lot of big redwoods.

I think I should go there again in some other day.