Kelly Trips and Tours

Since it had been several years since visiting Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and Yosemite National Park, in September we spent 6-days visiting the parks. Because wifi was spotty, we did not create a travel blog at that time  Below are a few pictures of our wonderful trip. We enjoyed staying at Wuksachi Lodge near Lodgepole. A wonderful dinner at the Lodge with a beautiful view. In the morning we were sitting on a bench outside our room enjoying a lite breakfast, and these girls joined us! You feel very small driving through and walking around the Giant Forest. General Sherman is the World's largest tree - over 275-ft tall and 36-ft in diameter at the base. After a 1/2 mile walk down a steep trail, we arrived at Crystal Cave. The 45-min tour was beautiful and the hike out, well that was another story. As we headed back, we stopped several times to enjoy beautiful water falls and to rest. It was a very steep climb back to

Orana (yo-rah-nah) which means hello. We hope you've enjoyed joining us via our last blog.  This is our last full day here in Tahiti and all good things must come to an end. A few other Polynesian words we've learned: Maururu (mah-roo-roo, thank you), Maeva (mah-yeh-vah, welcome) and, Nana (nah-nah, bye/see you later)   Tour guide Tracy picked us this morning for our tour of the west side of Tahiti. Joining us was a mother (Maria) and her 3 delightful children (Connie age 9, Tomas age12 and Philippe age 15) from Chile.   Our first stop was a scared site where the early Polynesians held special ceremonys and community meetings.  This is one of the guards at the entrance to the site.    It's raining plumeria!  We all got silly and started throwing plumeria up in the air.      Further back into the site was the large meeting place.  Much happened in these sites and the red wooden posts were put up by families.     Further down the road T