Preparation Time
9 февраля 2024 г., Германия ⋅ ☁️ 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,Читать далее
Los geht’s! 2000 km south - Day 1
23 февраля 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 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.Читать далее
2000 km south - Day 2
24 февраля 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 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 andЧитать далее
2000 km south - Day 3
25 февраля 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 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 hasЧитать далее
Palm Springs
26 февраля 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 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 hikingЧитать далее
Hiking around Palm Springs
28 февраля 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 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, IЧитать далее
Hollywood!
29 февраля 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 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 streetЧитать далее
Getty Villa & Getty Center
1 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 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, andЧитать далее
A driving tour through the LA metro area
2 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 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 aroundЧитать далее
On the road
18 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌬 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 hasЧитать далее
Fort Bowie
18 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌬 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 andЧитать далее
I’m in Texas! First stop: Marfa
19 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 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 orЧитать далее
Big Bend Towns to the East
21 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌬 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 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 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! EveryЧитать далее
Big Bend NP 1 - Ross Maxwell Drive
22 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 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 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 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 GrandeЧитать далее
Big Bend NP 3 - Chisos Basin
24 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌬 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 thenЧитать далее
Big Bend NP 4 - Highlights
25 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌬 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 highlightsЧитать далее
Big Bend Towns to the North
26 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌬 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 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌬 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 scaleЧитать далее
Carlsbad Caverns NP
28 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 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 aЧитать далее
Guadalupe Mountains NP
28 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 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 walkЧитать далее
UFO Crash in Roswell
29 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 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 fameЧитать далее
Billy the Kid Scenic Byway
29 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌬 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 theЧитать далее
Salinas Missions NM
30 марта 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌬 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,Читать далее