Painted Canyon
6 maart 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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
Wildflowers in Anza-Borrego State Park
7 maart 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
I’ve been here over Thanksgiving and really liked this place. It was already quite green then, now it’s luscious after exceptional rains. And the wildflowers are fantastic!
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More Anza-Borrego and wildflowers
8 maart 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
This is California’s largest state park, and most of it is wilderness. I’d drive a bit north and exit to the south. 2 more hikes, then I hit the interstate to cross into Arizona
Strange visions in the desert
8 maart 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 aMeer informatie
Tempe
9 maart 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 forMeer informatie
Between Phoenix and Tucson
10 maart 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 aMeer informatie
Tucson
10 maart 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 atMeer informatie
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
11 maart 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 isMeer informatie
Pima Air & Space Museum
12 maart 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 forMeer informatie
Time Travel Day
14 maart 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☁️ 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 ruinMeer informatie
Tombstone
15 maart 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌬 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
16 maart 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ⛅ 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 anMeer informatie
Chiricahua National Monument
17 maart 2024, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
A wonderland of rocks - that’s all there is to say
