Capitol Reef - Glen Canyon
22 April, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
I hike to Hickman Natural Bridge in the morning, then - arrgh - clouds again, making the scenic drive in the park less enjoyable. I decide I need to outrun the clouds and drive towards Hanksville,Baca selengkapnya
Natural Bridges NM
23 April, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
This day has spent in the Natural Bridges national monument, a place where I didn’t manage to go for. It protects three large arches in the same canyon, and you can hike through the canyon to allBaca selengkapnya
Ancient Pueblo Culture
24 April, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
I visit three locations of Cliff Dwellings or other structures from the Ancient Pueblo culture today. I didn’t realize that I missed calculated the time needed to hike in the Canyonlands NationalBaca selengkapnya
Canyonlands NP Needles District
25 April, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Already the drive to the Needles District is fantastic, I actually think it’s more spectacular than Monument Valley. Rather than hiking to the actual needles as I did last time, I hike 17 km throughBaca selengkapnya
Arches NP
26 April, Amerika Serikat ⋅ 🌬 22 °C
Arches ! I drive straight to the end of the Scenic Drive to Devil’s Garden for the long hike between and on the “fins”
Arches NP Day 2
27 April, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Arches is spectacular not only for arches. I stop multiple times in the Courthouse section with red cliffs. Then back to Devil’s Garden for morning sunshine views of famous Landscape Arch andBaca selengkapnya
Fisher Towers
27 April, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Later in the afternoon, I hike the Fisher Towers Trail. Incredible rock formations on the Colorado between Moab and Grand Junction, you hike below the rocks and out to a viewpoint. Still cloudy skies,Baca selengkapnya
Colorado National Monument
28 April, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
This morning I drove along the amazing rim of the Colorado NM, a little sunshine and then it actually hailed! The afternoon is spent shopping and sitting in a car repair shop in Grand Junction, theBaca selengkapnya
Sedona Day 1
8 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Red Rock Heaven! Be prepared to see a lot of it. The wonderful landscape has attracted a lot of rich and artsy people who live in big villas amongst the rocks. And a fair share of, well, youBaca selengkapnya
Sedona Day 2
9 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
It’s Cathedral Rock Day! The famous landmark in Sedona is really spectacular. I hike up the steep Slickrock to the saddle in the morning, and admire the reflection of it in Oak Creek at CrescentBaca selengkapnya
Sedona Day 3
10 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Today I crisscrossed the surrounds of Sedona for a variety of destinations. After a bird walk in Red Rock State Park, I visit the Palatki ancestral pueblo ruins and petroglyphs. After a stop atBaca selengkapnya
Oak Creek Canyon / Walnut Canyon NM
11 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
early in the morning, I hike the famous West Fork of the Oak Creek Canyon between Sedona and Flagstaff - a very nice hike before on the tourists show up.
I stopped at the many cliff dwellings ofBaca selengkapnya
Flagstaff
11 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
A major town in Route 66 / railroad / gateway to the Grand Canyon, I greatly enjoy Flagstaff’s down to earth vibe compared to rich-people-golfing-bitching-about-tourists Sedona the days before. IBaca selengkapnya
Take it eeeeeasy… Winslow, Arizona
12 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
I’m leaving Flagstaff to continue on Route 66, stopping in Two Guns, once a thriving little town that died when Route 66 was replaced by the interstate. Very few remains, I’m shocked how quicklyBaca selengkapnya
Petrified Forest NP
13 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
An afternoon and morning at Petrified Forest National Park, famous for the fossilized trees from the Jurassic period in the south part and the Painted Desert in the north part. My highlight was theBaca selengkapnya
Canyon de Chelly
14 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ 🌬 11 °C
Canyon de Chelly is of remarkable beauty, and full of cliff dwellings and petroglyphs, testimony to human occupation for millennia. It is at the heart of the Navajo Nation and a place of tragedy, asBaca selengkapnya
Navajo Nation
15 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
The Navajo Nation is the largest reservation and indigenous people in the US, spending a large part of Arizona and parts of Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. I’ve spent a lot of time driving throughBaca selengkapnya
El Morro & El Malpais
16 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Spanish names - I’m in New Mexico! I visit the national monuments of El Morro (inscription rock) and the first section of El Malpais (volcanic badlands) in the morning before heading to Acoma PuebloBaca selengkapnya
Acoma Pueblo
16 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Acoma is one of the 19 Indian Pueblos in New Mexico. The pueblo Indians are descendants of the ancestral pueblo cultures who built all the cliff dwellings, great cities like Chaco etc. After beingBaca selengkapnya
Albuquerque
17 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
I’ve made it back to civilization, to New Mexico’ biggest city. I explore Old Town with its adobe buildings in the morning. Most of the day I spent in the Indian Pueblo cultural center, watchingBaca selengkapnya
Santa Fe & Co. - Ancestral Pueblo
19 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ 🌬 12 °C
I spent eight days in the area between Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos, driving back and forth quite a bit. Culture, culture, culture! Rather than chronological the next few footprints are rather byBaca selengkapnya
Santa Fe Town
20 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Santa Fe decided in the 1930s to adopt the Adobe style all over the city. Even building buildings made out of brick are painted in Adobe color. It works! The images can’t convey it, but driving onBaca selengkapnya
Santa Fe & Co. - Spanish Settlers
21 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
2 old Haciendas in the Rio Grande Valley Are now museums to Spanish / Mexican settlers who arrived starting 1541. Casa San Ysidro in Corrales and Hacienda de los Martinez in Taos. Another old churchBaca selengkapnya
Bandelier National Monument
21 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
More Ancestral Pueblo Ruins / Cliff Dwellings, but these will be the last ones on my trip. People used natural cavities in the volcanic rock and enlarged them, using them as back walls and storageBaca selengkapnya
Los Alamos / Valle Caldera / Rio Grande
22 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
I visit Los Alamos in the morning - now a normal town but still with the National Laboratories and a lot of restricted areas. The division of the surrounding landscape into Technical Areas dating fromBaca selengkapnya

































































































































































































































































































































































































































































