Next stop, next desert. After we granted ourselves a great Mexican Dinner on our arrival day and spent the night in our air-conditioned hotel, we made our way to the Saguaro National Park. That one is the home of the biggest Saguaro Cacti of the Sonoran Desert, which extends over…
Once more we arrived in the desert, which dominates large amounts of our road trip. The Joshua Tree National Park belongs to the Mojave Desert, that covers large areas of California. It is famous, who would have thought it, for the Joshua Trees in the park. But next to the…
Of course, we had to spend some time on the Pacific Coast, so my parents and Caro would experience it, too. From Las Vegas, we, therefore, made our way to Carlsbad south of Los Angeles. There, we accommodated ourselves on a very nice Campground directly next to the Ocean. With…
It’s obvious that I have to leave some comments about the gambling hell Las Vegas. The plastic town in the desert that lets you forget about time and all the problems in the world pretty fast. The Strip runs once through the city like the promised land while two streets…
On the way back to Las Vegas we took a detour through the Valley of Fire during the day. The whole thing was only a State Park, so we didn’t really know what to expect. But as almost every the nature of North America dazzled us with its beauty. and…
Finally, finally, I met my parents again. By the time I really started to miss my family and I was glad to now see them other than just over FaceTime on the Internet. And in addition to that at such a great place. The Bryce Canyon is really a magnificent…
Finally, the day has come that I picked up my girlfriend Caro at the Airport in Las Vegas. We didn’t stay there but drove on directly towards Utah, as we wanted to visit the Zion National Park, before, on the next day, we would meet my parents at the Bryce…
The famous, notorious Death Valley was more or less on my way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and mustn’t be missing on my road trip. In the morning I already woke up in the dry shrub landscape that covers large areas of California. And before I even entered the…
As I was so close to it, I simply had to visit the famous places around Los Angeles. I have another one of my great slide shows to present you the place’s that I’ve been. That was the Sterns Wharf in Santa Barbara, Malibu, the gorgeous Venice, the well known…
As Highway 1 was closed at Big Sur, I had to fall back on Highway 101. There’s not much special along this one, except the Pinnacles National Park. I visited the park between 7:30 AM and 12 PM, after that the Californian sun just burned down too strong and I…
I experienced Californias coast as alive in two different ways. On the one hand, which was good, there was a lot of wildlife visible. On the other hand, it was Labor Day weekend and there were masses of tourists on the road. So I mostly was stuck in traffic jams,…
The next stop on my journey was the world famous Yosemite National Park. My actual plan was to spend a night there camping in the backcountry with my backpack, but the permits were so coveted and hard to get, that it wasn’t worth the effort. By that, I was in…
Except from the most famous National Park in the Sierra Nevada, the Yosemite National Park, which I will visit later, there are many other places worth visiting. Before I drove up in the Mountains, I visited Tadashi and Suzie in Davis, near Sacramento. I got to know the two of…
Exploring San Francisco by foot can confidently be called a hike and the term urban jungle is also not really an exaggeration. Indeed, it is really awesome in San Francisco, that everything is reachable by foot, but the fact, that the city is built on a rather uneven terrain makes…
However, I made my way down to San Francisco the next day. I really needed some variety to the coastal landscape, as I would see a lot of it still on the legendary Highway 1 later on my journey. Five hours I drove through the giant Redwood forests and then…
I hit the road early the next morning to get on quickly. Somehow I really underestimated the distances in my travel plan. Now, I already made the decision of spending two more days for my way down to San Francisco. Anyhow, I wanted to get on as quickly as possible…
The Highway 101 is just too long and offers too many sights, that I could report about it in only one post. Therefore, I split the stories a bit up. Still, it is hard to only choose the best of the best pictures, as there are so much of them.…
I really would’ve liked to report a bit about the drive from Bend to Portland, but in fact, the street over the Santiam Pass was so smoky, even my car smelled like the one of a smoker after I drove there. The wildfires in southern Oregon happened to be even…
Finally, finally, I was allowed to enter the United States again. But before I did that, I drove up to Whistler once more. I got company by Rico, a fellow German who wanted to get down to Oregon for the solar eclipse. We got to know over Facebook and planned…
Because I was now back in Vancouver and I had to wait a couple of days for my Visa, I decided to drive up to the Garibaldi Provincial Park again. Surely you remember, that I already reported from there earlier. Back then, the lake was still frozen and about one…
