Since I had to go through Fresno to change the main tank of Vivalavida which continued to leak despite several repairs, I took the opportunity to visit a few sites on the way to San Francisco. Starting with the Pinnacles National Park, the last National Park created to date.
 
 
1. Crossing the mountains behind the Big Sur…
 

 
 
2. … Vivalavida crosses beautiful forest of “red wood” sequoias.
 

 
 
3. Behind these mountains which condense rains of the Pacific, the hills have been cleared to create pastures…
 

 
 
4. … quite photogenic.
 

 
 
5. A beautiful lone tree … This phicture has earned me the remonstrances of a farmer not happy to find me in his field even if I did not do much wrong.
 

 
 
6. In the Pinnacles NP, a mountain range which houses californina condors that I haven’t seen on this occasion…
 

 
 
7. They are already some flowers…
 

 
 
8. Going further on my way, the land looks more desert.
 

 
 
9. However, a few scattered farms try to exploit it.
 

 
 
10. Along the road, the Coalinga solar plant and the strange and spectacular concentration of sunlight near the tower.
 

 
 
I then went to see the Kings Canyon National Park and its giant sequoias, not far from Fresno.
 
 
11. Pretty Hume Lake.
 

 
 
12. VivaLaVida under the giants.
 

 
 
13. And a penguin in front of the 6th largest tree of the USA! About 40 feet in diameter at its base!!!
 

 
 
14. Likely tracks of a lynx or a bobcat.
 

 
 
15. I found a nice boondocking area above Lake Hume up a nice 4×4 drive and surprise in the next morning: more than one foot of fresh snow!
 

 
 
16. This is what is called a return of winter!
 

 
 
17. I tryed to go through the pass…
 

 
 
18. … but there was to much snow and I drove back.
 

 
 
19. Lanscape is beautiful…
 

 
 
20. … since the weather is getting better.
 

 
 
21. I learned that the Highway was closed after having traveled more than twenty miles without a single trace in front of Vivalavida’s wheels. What a pleasure! 😀
 

 
 
22. Back to the Hume Lake that has changed in appearance since yesterday!
 

 
 
23. It feels like the middle of winter…
 

 
 
24. Going back down to Fresno…
 

 
 
To be continued in a few days… Thank you for your loyalty! 😀