On a hillside above Redwood Creek, surrounded by native Douglas fir and nearby coastal redwoods, a giant sequoia tree is shooting for the sky.

As we leave the line of houses on Redwood Road behind and round a curve he has regularly passed for over 100 years now, Bob Streich Sr. says dryly, “This all looks vaguely familiar.” Streich was born in 1906 in a farmhouse near the end of Redwood Road, on a hillside vineyard called Castle Rock….

Joe and I walk the last bit of the course of the Padre Trail that Joe had not been on.