September 9 – 20, 2023: From the Mojave Desert to Oklahoma City! Info: Route 66 begins in Santa Monica in California and ends in Chicago. As this is a historic road, it is not passable everywhere and in some places it no longer exists. Interstate 40 runs along the route all the way to Oklahoma…
Category: Inspiration & Motivation
Hello from Santa Fe
Saturday, September 17, 2023: The city of my dreams! Info: First the numbers for Santa Fe: 2,230 m above sea level, almost 90,000 inhabitants, 200 galleries and 0 high-rise buildings. Santa Fe is the capital of the state of New Mexico and is located at the foothills of the Sangre de Christo Mountains with mountains…
Hello from Grand Canyon
Tuesday, September 12, 2023: A wonder of the world! Info: The Grand Canyon is one of the seven natural wonders of the world. Over the last six million years, the Colorado River and its tributaries have carved into the rocks, exposing their layers. Officially, the Grand Canyon is 446 km long, starting in Lees Ferry…
Hello from Sequoia National Park
Thursday, September 7, 2023: Reception at the Generals! Info: Sequoia National Park is located in eastern California south of Yosemite at 2,000 meters above sea level. There you can find the largest trees on earth in terms of mass and volume, first of all General Sherman. My opinion: One of the highlights of the trip….
Hello from Northern California
Tuesday, September 5, 2023: How an oops turns into a major Äha – or two or three! Info Äha is the Austrian expression for “Hoppala” or “Oops”. The coast of California is home to the Redwoods – the tallest trees in the world! They can reach heights of up to 350 ft / 106 m!…
Hello from Oregon
Tuesday, August 29, 2023: I am on vacation! Info: The state of Oregon is located on the Pacific Coast, south of Washington and north of California. 4.2 million people live on 255,000 km2. Here you can find everything: the sea, mountains, volcanoes, desert, forests, big cities, small villages, whales, bears and squirrels. And no, it…
Hello from Mount St. Helens in Washington
Wednesday, August 23, 2023: An active volcano! Info: State Route 504 – The Memorial Spirit Lake Highway – takes you through breathtakingly beautiful scenery in southern Washington State to the area where a disaster occurred more than forty years ago. Before the eruption, Mount St. Helens was 2,950 m high. It was considered dormant, but…
Hello from Seattle in Washington
Tuesday, August 22, 2023: Is it art? Is it a game? Info: Seattle is located in Washington state in the northwestern United States, only about 100 miles (160 km) south of Vancouver in Canada. With 750,000 residents and four million people in the metropolitan area, it is Washington’s largest city. The Port of Seattle primarily…
Hello from Okanagan
Sunday, August 20, 2023: Fire! Info: In the very south of British Columbia lies the Okanagan Valley, Canada’s fruit and wine-growing region, and its landscape reminds me of Lake Garda. Due to the mild, dry climate it is very popular as a vacation region, and also many pensioners settle here. About 360,000 people live in…
Sally tells the real truth 10: I can pack up!
Hi folks, how are you guys doing? Everything relaxed? Things aren’t going so well for me at the moment. Well. As far as our trip is concerned, everything is okay. But my attempts to get into the upper unit have failed miserably so far. Not that I couldn’t climb up. I’m a sloth after all,…