December 24, 2004 — 01:15
Long time, no see! Guess what? It’s time for me and Karins winter road trip again and this year, I think the destination furthest away from Pittsburgh will be Texas and Big Bend National Park. As you might remember, after we got our national park passports we sort of have to visit all of the [...]
We’re back! 7589 miles (that’s 12750 kilometers) of road trip and total enjoyment :) So, during the next couple of days I hope to get some of the promised fixes done on the Swedish blog map.
Yesterday, we visited Voyageurs National Park on the border between Minnesota and Canada. Since the park is mainly accessible by boat and canoe, we wondered what it would offer us. Something that was no longer uncertain after a park ranger mentioned that otters were quite common in the park and just a few days ago [...]
US highway 2 is an amazing road, stretching all the way from the northwest to the northeast. The last two days has been all about the sky and the road straight ahead of us disappearing into endless fields and the horizon.
Driving through Montana and North Dakota might seem monotonous to some but it really isn’t. [...]
Wireless internet access… here in Glacier National Park? This is the most outdoorsy park we’ve been to so it feels kind of strange. Yesterday was been spent looking for river otters along North and Middle Fork of the Flathead River. No otters were to be found but we saw a pine marten, two black bears, [...]
According to two independent park rangers there might be a family of otters living in Trout Lake in the northeastern part of Yellowstone. Otters are just the coolest animals and something we have wanted to see a long time so we quickly decided to spend the evening by the lake. Even though we sat there [...]
Apparently, bears often fake attacks to get out of a threatening situation. So according to the advices in the bear section of the park pamphlet, if a bear charges towards you: stand still and the bear will usually stop before reaching you, sometimes just a feet or two away. But if it doesn’t stop, that’s [...]
We sat almost an hour watching the smoke formations rising from the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone that was made visible by the moonlight. We weren’t quite sure about what to expect when it eventually would erupt, we only knew it was in intervals around 90 minutes varying by season and hour. Faithful fooled us [...]
I bet a lot of people have walked into the same trap, thinking a passport which you get stamped as you visit the US national parks and monuments is pretty neat and ever so harmless. Well, I ask you to think again. Ever since Karin and I got our National Parks passes we’ve been caught [...]
When we hit asphalt after several hours of driving on a road designated as 4×4 high clearance only, it actually felt pretty damn good. Despite my persistence in proving the opposite, a rental Pontiac Grand Prix GT is unfortunately not much of an off-road recreational vehicle. However, we still managed to drive along the rim [...]
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