This post was actually meant to go out before we headed out but I just didn’t have time to publish it. Too much time spent weighing the options in terms of equipment (pun intended, see below :)
As we got hooked on fjällen last year, Karin and I early on decided to go backpacking in the [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
550 miles later and we’re in South Dakota! I think I’ve might have forgotten how to make turns, the road has been straight as an arrow almost the entire day. However, as a recent mapmaker (http://svensk.lemonad.org) I can now definitely understand the appeal.
In Nebraska, the main exitement was being pulled over for going 72 in [...]
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