Preparation Time
9. februar 2024, Tyskland ⋅ ☁️ 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,Læs mere
Los geht’s! 2000 km south - Day 1
23. februar 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 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.Læs mere
2000 km south - Day 2
24. februar 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 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 andLæs mere
2000 km south - Day 3
25. februar 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ⛅ 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 hasLæs mere
Palm Springs
26. februar 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☁️ 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 hikingLæs mere
Hiking around Palm Springs
28. februar 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 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, ILæs mere
Hollywood!
29. februar 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☁️ 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 streetLæs mere
Getty Villa & Getty Center
1. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☁️ 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, andLæs mere
A driving tour through the LA metro area
2. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ⛅ 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 aroundLæs mere
On the road
18. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 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 hasLæs mere
Fort Bowie
18. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 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 andLæs mere
I’m in Texas! First stop: Marfa
19. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ⛅ 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 orLæs mere
Big Bend Towns to the East
21. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
The small town of Presidio is more Mexican than American…. It spans the river and is now in 2 countries
Big Bend Ranch State Park
21. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 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! EveryLæs mere
Big Bend NP 1 - Ross Maxwell Drive
22. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Exploring the western side of the National Park on this scenic drive, visiting old ranch locations, viewing gorgeous mountain ranges, and the highlight: Santa Elena Canyon
Big Bend NP 2 - Rio Grande Village
23. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
The vast floodplain here is green oasis in the Chihuahua desert. I hike into Boquillas Canyon, walk a nature trail, stop at / walk to 3 different lookouts, and bathe in hot springs right in Rio GrandeLæs mere
Big Bend NP 3 - Chisos Basin
24. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 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 thenLæs mere
Big Bend NP 4 - Highlights
25. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
I return to Santa Elena Canyon to be there at the right time of the day for the sun, then back to Chisos Basin to hike the most famous trail - Lost Mine Mountain. These are definitively the highlightsLæs mere
Big Bend Towns to the North
26. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 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…
Marfa again - Chinati Foundation
27. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 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 scaleLæs mere
Carlsbad Caverns NP
28. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 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 aLæs mere
Guadalupe Mountains NP
28. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 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 walkLæs mere
UFO Crash in Roswell
29. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☁️ 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 fameLæs mere
Billy the Kid Scenic Byway
29. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 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 theLæs mere
Salinas Missions NM
30. marts 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 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,Læs mere







































































































































































































































































































































































































