(Almost) no travel without at least one visit in a zoo. So the San Francisco Zoo came to my travel itinerary. While I would have preferred a visit at the San Diego Zoo, this one was a bit closer and I anyway traveled enough. Expecting nice an warm weather, I dressed a bit summer like.…
After seeing quite some impressive formations built by sandstone, which was created by deserts, beaches, mud etc, I today saw massive mountains created in a total different way. The big formations, such as the half-dome, at “Yosemite National Park”, which stand out very impressive and may go up as much as 1.1 km from the…
Just a bit outside of the “Yosemite National Park” lies the Mono Lake. This is quite a bit a special place. As the lake only features incoming, but no outgoing water streams – the water evaporates about at the same rate as new water drips in – the lake is accumulating minerals. So in fact,…
When I looked for a hotel in or around “Yosemite National Park” on hotels.com, I decided to stay at the “Riverside Inn” as it looked quite ok. When I finally arrived there in full darkness – surprise – the place looked very familiar. When I was visiting Yosemite for the first time some 6 years…
Today a big move towards the west coast – and a bit north – was on the schedule. I continued, what I started a day before and tried to get a quite a bit closer to San Francisco. Of course the way is the goal, so I have chosen a route, where I will pass…
Well, it is kind of common know ledge, that Las Vegas is a Disney Land for adults. Seeing it, is though a bit special anyway. However, also in this place there are definitively to many people to really enjoy it. The only thing you had not to queue was at the slot machines and game…
On the way from “Zion National Park” to the west – after all, I have to move another 800 miles or so to get to the airport, on the highway to Las Vegas, I noticed a tourist sign, that advertised dinosaur tracks. After I have already spent quite some time enjoying fossilized dinosaur bones, that…
While the “Zion National Park” itself is quite nice of offers spectacular views and hiking routes within the 300 meter or higher sandstone cliffs, there are so many people, that the main valey can only be reached by a shuttle bus. That shuttle bus by itself is nothing bad. On the opposite, its probably much…
The usual sunset pictures at “Bryce Canyon National Park” probably all involved somehow the beautiful cliff. So its about time to turn around the lenses by 180 decrees and show the sky too.
As the park ranger, who gave speech about the geology of the “Bryce Canyon National Park” correctly remembered, this place is not about a canyon. The its more like a ridge, which erodes – more in the east than in the west. The water sources here at around 9000 feet / 2700 meters, is mostly…
