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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
We’ve been without internet access for a couple of days now and one night we even had to spend in the car. Yesterday, with not a single Starbucks in sight (a surefire way of determining that you’re at the outskirts of civilization ;), we visited Great Sand Dunes and Black Canyon National Parks. We’re driving [...]
After a night in Pidgeon Forge, we spent a really nice morning driving around Cades Cove, trying to get close-ups of deers (without much success despite their curiosity ;). Actually, the plan was to go off-road driving much in the spirit of winter’s southwestern roadtrip but since the intended road was closed we headed northwards [...]
By Jonas Nockert
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Posted in English
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Also tagged 2004, Cumberland Gap, Foton, Great Smoky Mountains, Kentucky, Photos, Pidgeon Forge, Roadtrip, Tennessee, Travel, USA
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I did not really know what to expect of Smoky Mountains and I think, in retrospect, that I was slightly surprised. I had read that it was the most visited national park in America; something that did not speak to it’s advantage, I definitely prefer visiting the parks with a moderate amount of co-visitors. In [...]
By mere coincidence, one of the national parks we visited happened to be Canada’s southernmost mainland: Point Pelee. Afterwards, Karin craved frozen margarita ;)
Point Pelee, Canada’s southernmost mainland.
Point Pelee, Canada
Karin at Point Pelee, Canada
On the 23rd of December, as I wrote before, Karin and I thought we woke up early only to notice that it wasn’t all that early when we got to the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. We bought a joint National Parks Pass ($50, free entrance to national parks and monuments) and looked at the [...]
By Jonas Nockert
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Posted in English
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Also tagged 2004, Amerindians, Arizona, Casa Grande, Cat, Collossal Cave, Foton, National Monument, Photos, Roadtrip, Ruins, The Thing, Tiki Bar, Tombstone, Travel, USA
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Well, it’s not really my own spot to be perfectly honest. In fact, I’m sure a lot of people already think of it as their own spot. Nonetheless, it’s a really good place for a picnic when visiting the south rim of the Grand Canyon and if you’re intending to go there in the near [...]
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