After a few hours of driving around in the pouring rain, I decided I wanted to go check out Mount Diablo even though I knew the view would be terrible because of the weather. When I paid my park fee going into the park and told the ranger I was Canadian, I guess some other traveler paid in Canadian funds so he says "what the hell am I going to do with Canadian money?" and gave me 5$ haha... I thought that was going to be my story for this little trip....
Me at the entrance of the park... again, taking my own pictures!!
Cows... I some how feel the need to photograph them now considering where I work!
Isn't always more interesting to see a person in the pictures every so often? Its kinda like proof I was there...
Ok... I warn you now... (Julie) scroll down quickly if you don't want to see this next part...So I am driving along for probably a half hour up these winding roads to the summit when I see this thing moving on the road... I realized what it was and started screaming in the car as I drove past it!!! UGH!! A tarantula!!! I could not believe it. So, I turned around even though the hair was standing up all over my body... serious heeby jeebies!! I drove back... and there he was... I stopped the car and took this picture from the window but it really didn't give the full effect!
Still fearing for my life... I got out of the car and walked up to this enormous spider considering putting my foot next to it so you can understand the size but, I couldn't... I just took a quick video and a close up picture and got the heck out of there!!! It is about the size of my hand... Ugh... still getting shivers thinking about it!
Mt. Diablo park is beautiful... at the top it was way too foggy and windy to even bother getting out, but it was a great experience and an amazing drive (puts Westside Road to shame).
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