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…
It’s going up and down through the news here, but other parts of the world probably reported about it in a short summary. In the province of British Columbia, numerous wildfires are currently burning, covering the sky of the whole western part of Canada in dense smoke. Even at the…
I was on my way towards the West, but I didn’t stop much. The forest fires in British Columbia became so worse, barely anything of the magnificent landscape of West Canada was visible through the dense smoke. More on that tomorrow in an extra post. But there was still one…
So I was back in Calgary and doubted more than ever about my North America Travel Project. I had everything planned very well and only did the one small mistake to trust on others experience but not do the research about the visa regulations. I needed to go to the…
Once I left Calgary I made my way down the 250 kilometers to the border of the United States where the Waterton National Park was. Thanks to the tip of my parents I had this one on my to-do list, too. The first day I arrived there around noon and…
The two weeks of preparation for my internship in fall were passing by too quickly in my opinion. Finally, I had the opportunity to settle down at one place but then the time was already over again. I’m definitely looking forward to coming back for the internship. So now it…
To get to my internship in Langenburg in Saskatchewan I haven’t even had to use my navigation system, though it was 1335 kilometers from Jasper, where I was now. The simple thing was, that I didn’t have to take a single turn on those 1335 kilometers, as I could drive…
Now it is finally time to thematize the Icefields Parkway. By now, I drove the 230 kilometers between Lake Louise and Jasper three times already. But it was worth every single cent I spent on gas for this. Also, it was directly on my route two times and only a…
There may be a lot of other beautiful places in Canada, but the Moraine Lake has a really special meaning for me. Pictures of the Moraine Lake were the reason I decided to do my work and travel year in Canada. Like at many of those great places I’ve also…
I didn’t mention this place in my reports for so long now, it’s really time to write about this place-to-be in Canada now! In Revelstoke, I spent eleven nights, more than in any other place over here, except Vancouver, where I had to prepare my road trip, obviously. I was…
I really had a good time during Independence Day and set a good final point to my stay in Seattle. For now, I headed back to Canada. Indeed I didn’t drive the direct way but drove through the beautiful North Cascades and the prairies behind them. I fueled up my…
Here, I wanna present you the best impressions from Independence Day in Seattle. I spent the day in the Gasworks Park, where the Seafair Cancer Care Alliance Firework was taking place over the Lake Union. I don’t want to tell you much about that, just let the pictures talk for themselves.…
Next stop on my journey through the gorgeous Washington State was the Mount Rainier National Park. Once I did such a long hike at the Mount St. Helens, I put a rest day between those two hikes, which I spent at a recreation area at a lake, where I went…
Right after I left Seattle on the early afternoon, to drive to the Mount St. Helens, I found myself in a traffic jam. Abnormally long. And the sun burnt down like hell. Two hours later I got sick and lost my temper, so I drove off, granted myself a Mc…
The first real, American, big city I visited was Seattle. I mean a really big city, I don’t count Anchorage as one. What should I say… Seattle really flashed me! What a fantastic town! So much multiculti and tolerance on such a close area. I absolutely didn’t feel like in…
Farewells are awful. So far I displaced it, but now the time came, that I would separate from my travel buddy Moritz, as he would fly back to Germany. I would travel on alone for now. I haven’t spent a single night alone in my van, it was just normal…
The time together with my travel buddy Moritz sadly was about to come to an end soon and it was the time to do a big finishing hike. For those asking how I came down from Alaska to the Rockies so fast … well, we were driving a lot. Of…
What was really nasty about my trip to the Glacier Bay, was the fact that I had to wait four days at the Bartlett Cove until a ferry would take me back to Skagway. Not that it wasn’t nice there, but there was just not much to do there and…
