Lassen and Lava
Today we visited Lava Beds National Monument and Lassen Volcanic National Park. Here’s some highs and lows. Best wildlife: the butterfly that landed on Paula’s hand at lunchtime. Honorable mentions for the butterfly that landed on my chair, a random dragonfly, and mister lizard, and mister swallow. Worst signage: a description of the “The End of the Modoc War” which neglected to mention that it wasn’t actually a war it was part of the systematic genocide of the Native Americans…