Extremely Unlikely is not Impossible

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The story, which did unfold today was very strange but nice. While I was in the middle of a guided tour – almost at the end of which actually – in the Dome at Bamberg, I strolled around the altar of the Dome and was just about to catch up with the group. A young woman in company with her friend sayed hello and then asked: “Could it be that you have visited the USA four weeks ago?”. I must have looked a bit surprised, Read More +

Different Geology

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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 valley floor, where built as magma cooled down. No apart from that quite relevant difference, there are also some remarkable similarities between the formations created in Yosemite and for example Read More +

Catching Horus

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In order to use the morning sunlight, I quickly returned to Arches National Park before heading for the Canyonlands National Park. The feature officially labeled as the “Penguins” right at the entry of the park, kind of reminded me to some stone status I saw on another continent. Horus, the falcon headed egyptian god, is what came into my mind, when I noticed that formation. Maybe I was in Egypt to many times. Anyway, I will go there again, soon actually. In a way I Read More +

Plenty of Arches

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Today was fully dedicated to the arches and other formations as the “Arches National Park”. While there are explanations about layers of mud, dunes and salt seas being deposited at various intervals and then eroded again over a period of millions of years – we are talking about around 100 million years even, it is still hard to imagine that this all could result in such a spectacular landscape. But questions remain. For example at the arches or other locations where material obviously broke, where Read More +

Delicate Arch at Sunset

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After a long drive to Moab and finding a hotel, I finally managed to get into the Arches National Park. It was already quite late and sunset was immanent. So I decided to only briefly enjoy the extreme bizarre, but very beautiful landscape and mountains and head more or less directly to the “Delicate Arch”, probably the most famous arch in that park as its also imprinted on the number plate for cars registered in Utah. Looking at the description of the hiking path, I Read More +