Sonora Desert, of course everybody travelling Arizona heart about it and you hardly can’t avoid visiting it, but there are some less know areas. Or as a range we met said, “there are dripless of tourists every now and then”. Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Reserve First stop for a night or […]
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Time to leave California and start exploring Arizona, but not without a last stop; Slab City. Slab City, California What to say, they pretend it is the last free place, but honestly we have some doubts on that. No rules only in the first place, but step away from the […]
Heading into the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park we were not absolutely convinced if it is worth going there, and the first miles it looked more like an open air mine than a beautiful desert landscape, but that changed quickly. Nice and warm (25 degrees Celsius) spring temperatures after a bit […]
Leaving Vegas we decided to head back into the Mojave Desert, slowly making our way to Joshua Tree National Park. As it was a Friday and a long weekend in the US, we decided to escape the crowds and head into the National Park after the weekend. That gave us […]
Absolutely sceptical and not highly motivated we started our stop for two nights in Las Vegas, and what to say? It was not bad at all, actually it was rather nice, relaxing and interesting. 🙂 There were so many sides to the coin, so let’s start with the most boring […]
The next big thing after our time in Death Valley, exploring the Mojave Desert! Somehow we were completely unprepared in terms what to expect and see, but in the end it all worked out well, and while writing this blog, we are actually ones again back in the Mojave, but […]
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 […]
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 […]