Among the Great Trees
Into the forest: Jedediah Smith State Park Dude, now is the time for the Avatar soundtrack. I turned to Santin in the shotgun seat of the Toyota, gesturing to the iPod. The two lane paved road had climbed up out of Crescent City, California towards a misty ridgeline, meandering between old subdivisions and farm fields. Paul craned his head from the cramped backseat of the small pickup, trying to see out of the windows. The new growth forest had thinned and looming in front of us was a dark gateway of giant redwood trees. We had meandered down the coast of Oregon for the past four days in the steady rain. It was Spring Break and not a lot of things were going right. I had unexpectedly broken up with my first and only girlfriend the night before we left. I walked out on the morning of our departure to find my brand new Tacoma missing from its usual parking spot. In a panic, I had called everyone including my pissed off ex, only to find that it had been towed because my parking pass ha