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 […]
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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 […]
Smith Rock State Park, not originally on our list at all, but we found some beautiful photos on Instagram, so we decided we have to go there and see it ourselves. Usually this state park is famous for the fantastic rock climbing possibilities, but offers also plenty of nice hikes […]
Columbia River Gorge, not the best spot for us and we were wondering if we even should write this blog at all, as it is still extremely frustrating. Somehow these pictures will forever be related to the fact that we lost the majority of our camera equipment there, when they […]