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Fisch on Tour

Sabbatical 2023 June to December in Western Canada and the US Read more
  • Painted Canyon

    March 6, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    I bike along a sandy road for 7 km to get to Painted Canyon in the Mecca Hills Wilderness. The canyons are great - wide Painted Canyon and narrow Rope and Ladder Canyon

  • Strange visions in the desert

    March 8, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    On the way from Anza-Borrego to Phoenix I end up in Roswell? Not really, but feels like it…
    I had planned to visit a ghost town in the Kofa mountains, but the gravel road leading there was not in a kind of shape that I wanted to risk it with my camper. so I had some extra time to spend at the campsite and enjoy the desert.Read more

  • Tempe

    March 9, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    Today was mainly administration with shopping, and unfortunately my bike had a flat tire and I needed to find a bike shop and get it repaired. Apart from driving for about four hours, I have time for a quick stop in Tempe. This university town in the Phoenix area has a nice artificial lake right in downtown.Read more

  • Between Phoenix and Tucson

    March 10, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    I skipped Phoenix as I spent 3 days there already and make my way to Tucson. On the way I visit the Casa Grande Ruins of the Hohokam culture, built 700 years ago, stop at a flea market, and take a look at Pinal Air Base where hundreds of old planes are supposed to stand around. Unfortunately I didn’t see too many from the one access roadRead more

  • Tucson

    March 10, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    In November I just visited the desert museum and so nothing of Tucson downtown at all. Time to rectify that! I went to El Presidio, the old Spanish downtown area and up the A-Mountain to get a look at the city from above. I also spend a few hours in the art museum, and eat at El Charro, the oldest continuously, operating Mexican restaurant, owned by the same family in America. That means, they’ve been around for more than hundred years and deserved it - the food was really excellent.Read more

  • Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

    March 11, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    I’ve already been here in November, and I liked it so much that I really wanted to go back. It mixture of a zoo and botanical garden, but just with plants and animals from the Sonoran desert, it is placed right in between Saguaro National Park and the Tucson Mountain ParkRead more

  • Pima Air & Space Museum

    March 12, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    This museum has a huge collection of World War III to current airplanes, mainly military. All the ones in the hangers and perfect condition, and the collection is huge! a great half day not only for airplane enthusiasts.Read more

  • Time Travel Day

    March 14, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    After breakfast with my friends, Rob and Sandy, I drive along Interstate 19. On a 45 minute drive I passed through three very different phases of Western impact on this land: a Spanish mission ruin from 1691, a still existing mission church now in an Indian reservation, and a Cold War Titan II missile silo…Read more

  • Tombstone

    March 15, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 17 °C

    You all heard of Tombstone, of course… movie famous after a real shoot-out. The form of mining time today survives and tourism, and it’s a fun place to be on a weekend.

  • Rodeo at Fort Huachuca

    March 16, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    I heard on the radio that there’s a rodeo, and I decided to go. It was interesting to get there: Fort Huachuca is an active US Army base, at the gate I was told that I’m a foreign, I need an escort to get to the rodeo arena. So a car was send that I needed to follow, but on the back out nobody cared… The rodeo was a lot of fun! Much larger than I expected, and everybody was cheering for the local team. The rest of the day I drove around the area and checked out minor sights.Read more

  • Trip end
    December 10, 2023