My parents came for a visit, giving me an excuse to check out two National Park sites I'd yet to see.
First, we took the shuttle down to the
Devil's Postpile National Monument, a small park established around its namesake. The postpile is a formation of columnar basalt, appearing so unnatural that according to legend Basque settlers in the area believed it could only have been created by the Devil.
The following day, we visited the
Manzanar National Historic Site, the location of an internment camp for Japanese-Americans in the 1940s. The site is beautifully interpreted, with highly informative displays in the visitor center preparing you for an auto tour through the grounds. Definitely worth a visit; we thought we'd be there an hour at most, but didn't leave until three hours later. The park is a moving tribute to that dark time in our history.
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