Capitol Reef - Glen Canyon
4月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 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,もっと詳しく
Natural Bridges NM
4月23日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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 allもっと詳しく
Ancient Pueblo Culture
4月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 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 Nationalもっと詳しく
Canyonlands NP Needles District
4月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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 throughもっと詳しく
Arches NP
4月26日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌬 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
4月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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 andもっと詳しく
Fisher Towers
4月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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,もっと詳しく
Colorado National Monument
4月28日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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, theもっと詳しく
Sedona Day 1
5月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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, youもっと詳しく
Sedona Day 2
5月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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 Crescentもっと詳しく
Sedona Day 3
5月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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 atもっと詳しく
Oak Creek Canyon / Walnut Canyon NM
5月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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 ofもっと詳しく
Flagstaff
5月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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. Iもっと詳しく
Take it eeeeeasy… Winslow, Arizona
5月12日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌬 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 quicklyもっと詳しく
Petrified Forest NP
5月13日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌬 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 theもっと詳しく
Canyon de Chelly
5月14日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌬 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, asもっと詳しく
Navajo Nation
5月15日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 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 throughもっと詳しく
El Morro & El Malpais
5月16日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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 Puebloもっと詳しく
Acoma Pueblo
5月16日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 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 beingもっと詳しく
Albuquerque
5月17日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 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, watchingもっと詳しく
Santa Fe & Co. - Ancestral Pueblo
5月19日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌬 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 byもっと詳しく
Santa Fe Town
5月20日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 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 onもっと詳しく
Santa Fe & Co. - Spanish Settlers
5月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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 churchもっと詳しく
Bandelier National Monument
5月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 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 storageもっと詳しく
Los Alamos / Valle Caldera / Rio Grande
5月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 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 fromもっと詳しく

































































































































































































































































































































































































































































