Leaving the busy South of Death Valley and heading into the North, for us surely the right decision. Some locations are easier to reach with others we struggled and even had to turn around for example because of snow. Yes, also that is possible in Death Valley, so when getting […]
Monthly Archives: January 2020
Death Valley, one of the hottest spots on the continent and the lowest point in the USA with -85,5 metres in the Badwater Bassin. Now in winter it is rather nice to have temperatures around 20 degrees Celsius, so a nice change compared to the winter days we had in […]
During winter we unfortunately had to decide to skip the Mono Lake, especially as the Tioga Pass leaving Yosemite was closed already due to snow. So we headed first South and took a larger Highway detour around the Sierra Nevada on our way towards the Death Valley. But prior getting […]
Yosemite, been on our list already for a while and finally we made it up here. Clearly a place you want to see, but be prepared for the crowds. With more than 4 million visitors a year it will be tough finding the lonely spots at least in Yosemite Valley. […]
After spending the Christmas days in Nevada, we are now back in California, on our way to the Yosemite National Park. Well originally our plan was that this will be our next stop, but then the weekend came in-between. As we tried to avoid the crowds on the weekend in […]
Blackrock Desert; a place we never heard about before and a place that was also not on our agenda at all. We would have never ended-up here if they would not have broken-up our car. As we had to go to Reno in Nevada to pick-up our new camera backpack […]
California, sunny beaches and surfing on the Pacific Ocean, isn’t that the picture you have in mind? Well, California has also another side, especially if you want to cross the mountains towards Nevada in the winter. Winter or not, we figured out that the main road to the Lassen Volcanic […]
Mongolia, we had it on our list for a while already, but difficult to travel if you want to do it our way; alone and without a guide. 🙂 But now we made it, and what a place to be if you like difficult tracks and places with little or […]
Heading south from Oregon into California, we couldn’t avoid entering the Redwood Forest National & State Park. Well, we also did not even want to avoid it, so in the end we spent three nights in these parks. Actually the area is protected in a couple of State Parks and […]