Zoeken resetten
Fisch on Tour 2024
  • bettinadownunder
  • bettinadownunder

Fisch on Tour 2024

Travelling the Western US in a Campervan Meer informatie
VolgenOverzichtOverzichtKalenderKalenderFoto’sFoto’sDelenDelenBucketlist
Nieuwste eerst
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    HillsboroBlack Mountain snow

    White sand to white snow

    1 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌬 12 °C

    I capture the 30 minutes of sunshine of the day for another quick visit to White Sands. The next 5 hours I spent in Las Cruces, largest city in the area, in the library and for car maintenance. Then I decide to drive the scenic route to Silver City via the old mining town of Hillsboro - and end up in the snow. Not fun, but I made itMeer informatie

    Zie vertaling
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    ShakespeareSaloon back then

    Driving Day

    3 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    Lots of driving today as I leave New Mexico and travel back to Arizona. Definitely on the way home now, so to speak. On the way, I visit yet another small Ghost Town called Shakespeare. This was a very lawless place where they actually hanged people in the stagecoach station for lack of trees around, so at some point, they changed the name for marketing purposes. I also visit the Amerind Foundation, a museum for Indigenous Art and modern art. No photos allowed there, but the carpets of yellow flowers in the hills in that area were fantastic.Meer informatie

    Zie vertaling
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    Artifacts found here

    Tonto NM / Lake Roosevelt

    4 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    The next two days I spent north east of Phoenix in the area around Lake Roosevelt, the largest reservoir of water completely surrounded by Arizona. Time to relax on the campground at the lake, and I visit Tonto national monument, my last Cliff Dwellings for this trip. I really love the Sonora desert landscape, and the flowers were fantastic.Meer informatie

    Zie vertaling
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    Lots of rain recentlyWeaver's NeedleSee it?My first rattlesnake in the wild! And this is on max zoomWave CaveBack to Joshua Trees!

    Superstition Mountains

    6 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 7 °C

    If this looks familiar, it is! One of the best hikes of my entire trip was up to Fremont Saddle and as I pass Phoenix anyways, I stopped for another day for a six hour hike in this fantastic landscape. First part as in November, up to the saddle, then I turn left instead of right and hike back via the lost mind trail and the wave cave. I met Amy, who trains for hiking the Grand Canyon rim to rim in May in a day. You need to be very fit for that.! Driving towards Vegas the afternoon I stop in Rodeo town Wickenburg for a coffeeMeer informatie

    Zie vertaling
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    Chloride

    Route 66

    7 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    Just in case you didn’t know where I was… in Kingman and surrounds you are reminded a lot. This town really lives off the nostalgia, and they do it in a great way. I loved walking around in this otherwise not very interesting town. Before that, I stopped in chloride, a quirky mining town still very much alive. Guess what they mined here…Meer informatie

    Zie vertaling
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    Diego wants to be in the gun showArizona...

    Oatman

    7 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    A former mining town, like so many in the southwest, that is now firmly set on tourism, very well done in my opinion, the two main attractions: donkeys and western shootout shows.

    Zie vertaling
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    A turbine on maintenanceWay up and down before elevatorsLake MeadLake Havasu

    Hoover Dam

    8 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌬 20 °C

    An engineering marvel still today, Hoover Dam them is very impressive. I walk the bridge, I walk the dam, and I take the tour to see the power plant and go inside the dam itself we got to look out of one of the ventilation shafts in the middle of the dam, that was quite cool. The Dam itself enabled the existence of the town of Las Vegas and feeds Los Angeles, San Diego and the entire southwest with water.Meer informatie

    Zie vertaling
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    The Venetian: outdoor gondola...... indoor gondola

    Vegas, Baby!

    9 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Day one of two in Las Vegas, after doing the laundry, and getting something on the camper repaired, I walk the strip day and night. First outside, then inside the casinos. I love this town, it is completely over the top and absolutely nuts! Cirque de Soleil in the evening!Meer informatie

    Zie vertaling
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    High RollerNeon MuseumThe real thing at Freemont Street

    Downtown Las Vegas

    10 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    More relaxed today, I walk the Strip again and go to some of the attractions, like the High Roller, Ferris wheel larger than the London Eye. Blue Men Group show as matinee, then I take a cab to Downtown Vegas: the Neon Museum and Freemont Street Experience. Great! David Copperfield in the evening.Meer informatie

    Zie vertaling
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    Arriving in Death Valley
    SaltLake!It was a salty and muddy walk to the lake

    Death Valley NP 1

    13 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    I drove a detour for the most scenic road from Las Vegas to death Valley. This way I enter from the south, driving up the death valley itself. First, you only see sand, then salt it, and then - THE LAKE. Yes, there’s still water at the lowest point in North America, Badwater. Hottest I had today was 34°, this night it git down to 7. I finished the day by on Artist’s Drive - they also lots of colors here.Meer informatie

    Zie vertaling
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    Mount Whitney, highest mountain in the lower 48 statesHeart ArchMoebius ArchEye of AlabamaRed Rock Canyon

    Alabama Hills / Driving to the coast

    16 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    Today I drove over 600 km to get to the coast, from desert to sea. A stop in the Alabama Hills, granite formations with a fantastic view of the Sierra Nevada. A short stop at Red Rock Canyon but the sun was all wrong. All in all a journey through climate zones: desert, high desert, lush grassy hills, Central Valley agriculture and oil fields, then more lush hills down to the ocean.Meer informatie

    Zie vertaling
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    Pier at San Simeon
    Beach findsElephant SealsOthet coastal inhabitantsRagged PointOld Spanish Mission Soledad

    Elephant Seals

    18 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    I had plenty to drive up Highway 1, the famous coast Road up to the point where it was destroyed by a landslide two years ago today. But it was very foggy, so I spent a lot of time watching the elephant seals. It was very nice to watch the colony, this time of the year there are females changing their fur (molting) and juveniles, none of the big males with the characteristic trunk. Then I drive up to Ragged Point before heading inland towards the pinnacles and spending time in the library of the small town by of Soledad.Meer informatie

    Zie vertaling
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    Condors!

    Pinnacles NP

    19 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    A wonderful day spent hiking in the Pinnacles, rough volcanic rock formations, unique in this area of rolling green hills and agriculture. The weather was perfect, lots of flowers, birds and great views. I hiked 22,8 km covered 933 vertical meters today, and every step was worth it.Meer informatie

    Zie vertaling
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    Calla Lily Valley

    Highway 1 Carmel - Santa Cruz

    20 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    I had planned to drive down Highway one from Monterey for 60 km to where it is damaged by a land slide in 2022 - I wanted to see the famous Big Sur. But approaching the highway I learned that it is now blocked only 11 miles south of Carmel due to more landslides that happened earlier this month! This, and the fact that on a Saturday with great weather everything is completely overrun by people, forced several changes of plans on me. I stopped at several places in Garrapata State Park at the coast, had a seafood lunch in Carmel, then north towards San Francisco all the way to Santa Cruz. This seaside town has the only remaining historical amusement park (Boardwalk) on the West Coast, and a long pier.Meer informatie

    Zie vertaling
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    Natural Bridge
    Elephant seals at Ano NuevoPigeon Point LighthousePebble BeachSan Francisco suburbsMy first glance!

    Santa Cruz - Golden Gate Bridge

    21 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    The stretch of course line from Santa Cruz to San Francisco is beautiful, but not spectacular. I stop at another location to view elephant seals, Pigeon Point Lighthouse and Pebble Beach (semi-precious stones!) before making my way up to San Francisco’s famous Golden Gate Bridge. I get my first taste of San Francisco while driving. Hills, houses like in England and power lines like in Romania… this city is unlike any other in the US, with the exception of New York.Meer informatie

    Zie vertaling
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    Union SquareMaiden LaneNormal grades here...Coit TowerCoyote!

    San Francisco - Morning

    22 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    I take the bus to downtown, then walk around the union Square area before making my way into Chinatown. This is really the most Chinese I’ve ever felt outside of China.! I climb the hill to Coit Tower, then the tower of views of the city. On the way down using the old fashioned Filbert Steps through a park-like area, I see a coyote!!! Apparently, coyotes have moved into towns like foxes in Germany.Meer informatie

    Zie vertaling
  • bettinadownunderFisch on Tour 2024Reiziger
    Alcatraz island
    Guard towerCell blockCheck in......showering...Prisoners will let naked along the corridors to their cell!CellHigh security cellsKitchenControl centerLighthouse

    San Francisco - Alcatraz

    22 april 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌬 15 °C

    Walking along the pier, I passed the pier for boats to Alcatraz and spontaneously ask if tickets are available. Yes they are, I take the next board to spend two hours on the infamous prison island. The cell block is the highlight, but there are a lot of buildings partly dating from the mid-1850s to prison administration buildings. The islands also serves as a bird sanctuary today.Meer informatie

    Zie vertaling
  • 2026© FindPenguins
  • Home
  • Over ons
  • Groepstracking
  • Pers
  • Voorwaarden
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • Helpcentrum
  • Afdruk