Arches National Park
2024年11月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C
We spent the night in Moab, a small town next to 2 national parks, between beautiful rocks and canyons, which gave us amazing views from our room.
We drove through the park, surrounded by incredibleもっと詳しく
Dead Horse Point
2024年11月23日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
Before going to the Canyonlands National Park we did a small hike at the Dead Horse Point. Legend says that some cowboys corralled wild horses at the cliff, and took some that they liked, and let theもっと詳しく
Canyonlands National Park
2024年11月23日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
We had several smaller hikes and stopped at some overlook points to see the canyons and cliffs along the scenic road in the park. We walked around the Mesa Arch, which provided beautiful landscapeもっと詳しく
Natural Bridges National Monument
2024年11月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
Before going to Monument Valley we stopped at the Natural Bridges Monument. This amazing canyon has three bridges, where the water cut through the rocks, looking for a shorter way. We hiked to theもっと詳しく
Monument Valley
2024年11月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
After stopping at the Forrest Gump point we finally got to our highlight. As the Valley is a sacred place for Native Americans, the park is in their hands and there are some restrictions. Most toursもっと詳しく
Horshoe Bend
2024年11月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C
We spent to nights in Page, a starting point for several tours and sights around Grand Canyon. We had a beautiful view on the red rocks around from our room. We had some changes in our plan, as someもっと詳しく
Vertical Garden
2024年11月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
After the Horshoe Bend we had a small walk on the Vertical Garden trail. We walked on some rocks, no plants, only sand and cliffs. And then at the very and a small vertical garden, hanging from a wallもっと詳しく
Lake Powell
2024年11月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
From the Horshoe Bend we drove up to the Powell Dam, the second largest dam in the US. It was built in the fifties to ensure the distribution of the water in the surrounding states. Page, the town weもっと詳しく
Grand Canyon
2024年11月26日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
After driving two hours to Grand Canyon (partly) on a beautiful road at the canyon, we finally reached the rim. We went to a view point (with a gift shop of course, there is no touristic place withoutもっと詳しく
Walmart Canyon - AKA Walnut Canyon
2024年11月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 5 °C
We spent the night at Flagstaff, which is a town in a volcanic area, with several National Monuments around. National Monuments are like national parks, just smaller, and they can be named by theもっと詳しく
Meteorit Crater
2024年11月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
Today we had our second coldest day (after the snowstorm in Wyoming).
We went to the world's best preserved meteor crater, where we saw an interesting exhibition on meteors, and then had a small tourもっと詳しく
Wupatki National Monument
2024年11月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 5 °C
The last stop was the Wupatki Monument, ancient villages. We drove through the volcanic area, everywhere black rocks, amazing landscape, black mountains, with snow on the top and lava flows.
A fewもっと詳しく
Hoover Dam
2024年11月28日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Before arriving to Las Vegas we had a small hike to the Liberty Bell Arch with a beautiful view to the Colorado River. Moon-like landscape, an underneath us lovely green spots for camping at theもっと詳しく
Las Vegas
2024年11月28日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 3 °C
Finally we made it to Vegas. After surviving the extrem long queue, we managed to check in to our hotel, Flamingo, which even had its own monorail stop and highway exit. And yes, it had real flamingosもっと詳しく
Valley of Fire
2024年11月29日〜30日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
After dropping off Olli's friend at the airport, we drove to Valley of Fire.
Back to reality: sleeping again in the car. We spent the night at a gas station, which had a casino firework store openもっと詳しく
Las Vegas 2
2024年11月30日〜12月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
After returning from the Valley of Fire, we went to the movies, to see the new Gladiator. We had a huge bowl of popcorn (too big for two even). Then instead of going to a fancy hotel we drove to a gasもっと詳しく
Death Valley
2024年12月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
After taking a shower for two dollars at a gas station (both of us in the women's restroom, behind a curtain) we drove to the warmest place on earth. We went to the salt flats, Badwater, which is theもっと詳しく
Sequoia National Forest
2024年12月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
Up to Sierra Nevada!
Thanks to the road closures (because of snow and winter, but all we saw up was sun and 20 degrees) we saw a very diverse landscape up the hills: an awful industrial city withもっと詳しく
Sequoia National Park - Giant Forest
2024年12月4日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Giant trees part 2. Today we drove to Sequoia National Park to see General Sherman and Co. The same morning routine: driving through some very bad air quality area, then orange plantations and at theもっと詳しく
Yosemite
2024年12月5日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
Finding a place to sleep close to the park was not so easy, we were quite sceptical about our options, but eventually we found a pretty nice spot next to a fire station, with WiFi even. After we hadもっと詳しく
Stanislaus National Forest
2024年12月6日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Another day, another personal alarm service: today in the morning a McDonald's worker knocked on our window, saying that we are not allowed to park overnight. I found an interesting place to have aもっと詳しく
Columbia
2024年12月7日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Before driving to SF, to pick up our friend, we went to Columbia, a former gold rush town. We had a tour of the town, where several buildings have been preserved from the gold rush times. Gold wasもっと詳しく
San Francisco
2024年12月7日〜9日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
We drove for ages to get to San Francisco (South San Francisco to be more exact) without tolls, we drove around the whole bay. We barely saw anything from the city, it was so smoggy. We drove throughもっと詳しく
Alcatraz
2024年12月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
We started the day at Alcatraz, went there with a ferry, where we were supposed to have a nice view on the bay and Golden Gate Bridge, but we still couldn't see anything because of the smog. We had anもっと詳しく
Redwood National Park
2024年12月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
We spent the night in Eureka, a town with some beautiful Victorian buildings. Before having a huge breakfast we went to the Carson Mansion. Then we drove to Redwood National Park, along the coast withもっと詳しく
























































































































































































































































