Since we skipped Death Valley, we wanted to drive to Sequoia National Park once we stopped in Visalia. The park was almost an hour away from town and we had about two hours of daylight left, but we decided to drive to the park anyway. On our way to the park, we went through a lot of green hills, over a mountain stream, and through a few tiny towns. It was a very pretty drive. The trip to the park was worth the drive by itself, so we weren't too disappointed when we got to the park and found that snow chains were required to see any Sequoia trees. We could've gotten into the park, which I'm sure was pretty as well, but it was getting dark, so we decided to head back. I'm sure we'll go to the park some other time. That night, we found a local Chinese place where we ate orange chicken and shrimp and broccoli for dinner, and ordered way too much food, but it was pretty good. After dinner, we made use of the free internet in our neat old-but-well-maintained motel off of the highway. It was kind of noisy in our room because of some loud people outside, but it quieted down after a while.