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Fisch on Tour 2024

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    February 21, 2024
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    Preparation Time

    February 9, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

    After 2 busy months at home on the couch, visiting friends and family, checking on the colleagues and verifying if the beer still tastes good at B&W, skiing, following up the first part of the tour, going through thousands of fotos, preparing the next part of the tour... only 12 days until I take off again.

    Tentative route attached: From Vancouver straight south to Palm Springs, spending a few days there, then via Joshua Tree - Anza Borrego Desert SP - Phoenix - Tucson - Tombstone - Chiricahua NM to Big Bend NP in Texas in late March. After that, the weather decides!    Read more

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    University town
    Bridge from old town to riverbank where the Museum is, with sculptures by Dale ChihulyThe Museum Roof (glas blowing happens inside the cone)Salmon swarmMore by Dale ChihulyAnd my favorite: the glas in the pool by sunset!

    Los geht’s! 2000 km south - Day 1

    February 23, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C

    I leave Langley south-east of Vancouver on Friday. After passing the US border (always take 1 hour or more) and shopping in Bellingham, I stop in Tacoma south of Seattle to visit the Museum of Glass. An old industrial town, Tacoma has some Charme… That day I make it almost to Portland.Read more

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    Mount Shasta
    Shasta State Historic ParkSundial Bridge

    2000 km south - Day 2

    February 24, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    Lots of driving as I cross Oregon and the mountains in Northern California. Mount Shasta again! Late afternoon breaks for sightseeing in the old gold mining town of Shasta, historical buildings and ruins now a State Historic Park, and then an architectural highlight: Calatrava‘s sundial bridge in Redding! Fitting with the architect‘s origins in Valencia, Spain, it was very nice and warm. And green - they‘ve had lots of rain, notice the flooding Sacramento River…Read more

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    California Capitol
    DowntownCity HallReconstructed Sutter's Fort (trading post)1935 Tower BridgeOld SacramentoRice fieldCherries I guess

    2000 km south - Day 3

    February 25, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

    I stop after only 1,5 hours driving to visit Sacramento, the capital of California. A town of about 200,000 inhabitants, founded as a trading post and prospering during the gold rush time, it has several historic areas, albeit heavily reconstructed. Worth visiting, though! The rest of the day is again spent on I-5, beautiful drive this time of the year as millions and millions of fruit trees are in bloom….Read more

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    Palm Springs
    Marilyn in front of the Art MuseumLa Quinta Old Town (which is actually very new)

    Palm Springs

    February 26, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    I meet my Canadian friends, Rob and Sandy, for 3 days in an RV Resort close to Palm Springs. Lazy days… beer being drunk…. Short visits to Palm Springs and La Quinta. On the 3rd day I go hiking (see separate footprint).Read more

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    Tahquitz Canyon
    View down to Palm SpringsThousand Palms

    Hiking around Palm Springs

    February 28, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    A first hike in Tahquitz Canyon, up through a wide canyon to a nice waterfall. With all the rain, lots of water in the falls and the desert is very green! Lovely flowers in the flat desert areas, I hope to see much more of this! The second hike of the day is to Thousand Palms Grove, where the native California Fan Palms have grown forever in waterbearing groundRead more

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    Grauman's Egyptian Theater

    Hollywood!

    February 29, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    3 days in LA - starting with the most famous places of them all, the core of Hollywood: Hollywood Boulevard between Orange and Vine, then down to Sunset Boulevard. They already blocked off the street in front of the Dolby and TLC Chinese Theatres to prepare for the Oscars. Apart from Movie stuff, Hollywood mainly consists of souvenir shops, homeless people and a run-down neighborhood. But it‘s cool nonetheless!Read more

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    Getty Villa modeled on Ville dei Papiri
    Getty CenterRenaissance take on the old mastersCranach's Adam and EveView from the Getty Center

    Getty Villa & Getty Center

    March 1, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    Jean-Paul Getty was one of the richest men in the world and dedicated his fortune to art - constructing a full-scale replica of a Roman Villa close to Pompeji to house his Greek-Roman collection, and the huge Getty Center to house art from the Middle Ages to about 1875. Amazing to walk into old Rome, and to stroll through 500 years of European masterpieces within 3 hours!Read more

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    Marina del Rey Fisherman's Village
    View from the mountains north of MalibuDowntown LAMartin, of course

    A driving tour through the LA metro area

    March 2, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    The world is a small place - especially when jobs take you around it. Martin my brother in law was in LA, and we spent Sunday together. It rained most of the day :-(
    Therefore we mainly drove around everywhere without getting out much, enjoyed drinks on the 70th floor of the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown LA and had a great dinner at Porterhouse, Bourbon & Bones. We made sure porterhouses and bourbons were quality-controlled :-)Read more

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    Willcox - survives as its the only town in 50 miles
    Bowie - almost dead75% ghost town

    On the road

    March 18, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 15 °C

    The towns I’m passing here in southeastern Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas share common story: founded as boomtown due to mining, cattle ranching or rail road stops, the economic basis has disappeared. Now what? some sort of make it, most struggle, some are ghost townsRead more

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    Fort Bowie

    March 18, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 15 °C

    Once the main army post in the 16 year search for renegade Apache chief Geronimo, Fort Bowie (1862-1897) used to have 300 inhabitants. Once given up by the army, it was stripped of wood and deteriorated quickly. Walking around a few remains, the sheer size of the Ford area was surprising, something that’s hard to show on picturesRead more

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    Some of the art installations
    Vorne hui......hinten pfui

    I’m in Texas! First stop: Marfa

    March 19, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    In the ranking of towns losing their original source of income, Marfa has succeeded in a big way: an artsy town with a huge arts foundation, and a very charming mixture of old buildings, crumbling or not. If not, many are renovated in a very subtle way, which I like a lot.Read more

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    More art, I guess

    Big Bend Ranch State Park

    March 21, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    A huge state park protecting Chihuahua Desert Wilderness, only accessible by 4 x 4 for the most part. I drive the River Road along the Rio Ganda, the border river to Mexico. No border wall here! Every time you see a river in these pictures, the right side is Mexico. After the cloudy weather yesterday, it is unbelievably beautiful today.Read more

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    Big Bend NP 3 - Chisos Basin

    March 24, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 25 °C

    Today I drive up into the mountain island, as they call cooler climate on isolated mountains in the desert. Looks Mediterranean to me. I hike down to The Window, the top of a dry waterfall, and then all the way back up. My first stop of the day though was a trail to Balanced Rock not far from my campsite. It was very windy all day, and the air is full of dust.Read more

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    Marathon
    AlpineFort Davis

    Big Bend Towns to the North

    March 26, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 13 °C

    I leave Big Bend National Park on the north side, visiting the small town of Marathon, the county seat Alpine, and a fort from the Indian wars, Fort Davis. And it’s time to go shopping etc…

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    Marfa again - Chinati Foundation

    March 27, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 14 °C

    I complete my loop in taxes with the return to Marfa because I really wanted to visit the art museum Chinati Foundation by Donald Judd. No photography permitted inside, but Judd’s large scale outdoor installations are the centerpiece of the museum. It is located on a former US Army base. I then drive towards Carlsbad Caverns through a desolate landscape, full of oil wells and oil industryRead more

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    Entrance
    The landscape around

    Carlsbad Caverns NP

    March 28, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    The only national park in New Mexico is essentially underground, protecting a system of more than 100 caves. One can be visited, tiny fragment of a cave system by far not fully explored. It’s a mixture of flowstone (Tropfstein) and other formations. I took the natural entrance, walking down 230 steep vertical meters, but I took the elevator up!Read more

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    Guadalupe Mountains NP

    March 28, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    Part of the same mountains as Carlsbad Caverns, but this part is in Texas. I spend the afternoon in the northern part of the park, the core around, which was created, McKittrick Canyon. A 12 km walk in a fairly flat landscape, but beautiful !Read more

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    UFO Crash in Roswell

    March 29, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

    It’s quite a drive to get to Roswell, and I have to admit that I was rather disappointed. The town is fairly ugly, and seems to focus more on being a county seat rather than banking on global fame as alleged site of a UFO crash on July 2 1947. Only businesses get into it - you have to look closely. At least the chamber of commerce provided a nice welcome!Read more

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    The Courthouse Billy escaped from
    Spanish settlers built this tower as protection against the ApacheFort Stanton parade ground 1Fort Stanton parade ground 2My first skunk!Sotol sunset

    Billy the Kid Scenic Byway

    March 29, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 20 °C

    After driving through flat, unattractive desert landscape, riddled with oil rigs and oil industry infrastructure for hours in Texas and New Mexico to get to Carlsbad and Roswell, getting back to the mountains was a treat. I follow in the footsteps of Billy the Kid and visit Lincoln (where he escaped from the courthouse and was later hanged) and Fort Stanton - found it in 1855 to fight the Apache, it served as a hospital and an internment camp for German and Japanese nationals in WWII. Lincoln is a very nice, very authentic Old West Town, I really loved it.Read more

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    Valley of Fire
    Gran QuiviraI wonder how old this church is?My reason not to go further north...QuaraiAboBosque de Apache

    Salinas Missions NM

    March 30, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 16 °C

    I spent the night at Valley of Fire, a lava field, and walk the nature trail both last night and this morning. Most of the day I spent at the three locations of Salinas Missions National monument, three large Indian Pueblos, that were Christianized by the Spaniards in the 1620. In the evening, I visited Bosque de Apache Wildlife Refuge. It’s mainly a bird sanctuary for birds migrating between North and South America. Not too many bots today unfortunately, problem of the season, and it’s too windy, but I see ducks, deer, turkeys, and Javelina. Generally, in New Mexico, drives along and attractions spread out.Read more

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