Moritz Altenbach

Not far from Bluff, where we spent the night in a very lovely guesthouse and had a great dinner the night before, lays the Natural Bridges National Monument. The park is characterized by three large rock arches, that all lay in a canyon, that tracks through the desert for many…

The same day we visited the Monument Valley we had two more attractions on our travel schedule. A short stop in the Goosenecks State Park and the Valley of the Gods. Both places didn’t lay far apart from each other and were also mostly on the way to Bluff, where…

The Monument Valley, well known from several movies, was the next stop on our journey. Around noon we arrived there and drove towards the red colossuses that rose out of the desert landscape. First, we didn’t plan to drive into the valley, as it was land owned by Indians and…

Alright, now I have something to read again and not only a slideshow. Those are also only one and a half days that I’m describing here, but we just experience so much in such a short time. As I needed another oil change yet we settled that one out in…

Attention, attention! Here follows a compilation of photos of kitsch in Sedona, contagious fun at the Slide Rock State Park and calm relaxation at the campfire on the Manzanita Campground. The less stressful day was very relieving to us on our packed road trip schedule.          …

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…