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Saturday 25 February 2017

Yellowstone and Grand Teton

While living in New Mexico, we set ourselves to visit as much of the USA as we possibly could. Being nature lovers, we focused mostly on the numerous national parks and monuments. In the West, this is indeed a challenging task. But, we were on a schedule, so we set off to yet another epic road trip. This time we decided to explore the very famous Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. We drove from Santa Fe along the eastern side of the Rockies. We made a brief stop in Estes Park, CO to see the Rocky Mountain National Park, described in another article about Colorado. On the way back, we drove on the western side through Utah, stopping by and visiting our friends in Salt Lake City in Utah. We also stayed around Moab and visited some nice spots there. My impressions from that part of the trip are written up in an article about Utah. Hidden in the remote wilderness of the deserted state of Wyoming, this natural gem is indeed a must see spot. Unfortunately, many many tourists think so too. As we discovered, it is possible to beat the crowds and enjoy these wonderful places in a deep connection alone with the nature. Sometimes getting up early is the key, often finding the less well known spots or strenuous hikes gets you there. This article is a brief description of this trip we took from the deep south to Wyoming to greet the bisons and geysers.

Yellowstone NP

Saturday 18 February 2017

(Very) Sunny Arizona

Our adventures of the US Southwest were completed by exploring Arizona. We did so on several different trips from New Mexico, when we lived in Santa Fe. We also have some great friends in Flagstaff and Phoenix, so we used the opportunity to properly explore this state. I was originally going to give this article the following subtitle: "50 shades of red", but that would be somewhat unfair, regardless of the fact that this indeed would be a very terrible pun. Indeed, Arizona is a typical example of the Southwest, it is so colorful and varied that it is almost impossible to truly describe all its faces.

Grand Canyon NP from the top of Bright Angel trail.