Area 51

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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 another nice place, the Yosemite National Park. On the way, a bit outside of Las Vegas – “a bit” in american terms, I passed “Area 51”, the famous, non exiting, Read More +

Wild Landscapes

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On my way further down south, I came through some very remote and wild landscapes. Along the longer part of the way only grassland or bushes lined up with the street. It must be a very difficult trip for the first settlers to travel through these terrain’s – without modern navigation systems or freeways, that make traveling comfortable these days. Those travelers only had – I guess – rather rough descriptions of landmarks, such as the “Pilot Butte” a characteristic table mountain on top of Read More +

Time to Move On

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On request by one of the readers of this blog, I am posting a bad weather picture for those who had to stay home. Of course, that particular day was anyway dedicated to traveling a bit southwards as my finally 5 days and nights at West Yellowstone did come to an end. The extension of 1 day to my original plan just was fitting right. While I was used to people stopping their car anywhere in the Yellowstone National Park to observe some animals, typically Read More +

A long Drive

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Todays goal was to get to West Yellowstone, where a nice hotel waits for me to host me for the next 4 days. Around 500 km had to be left behind. As there was relative little traffic, that did not sound too complicated. And the weather created a beautiful scenery, such that driving was a pleasure. Thanks to Sirius, a satellite radio service, the acoustic entertainment was fine too.