Coping with public and private transport since 2001
After a night with a very loud air conditioning system, we got up and prepared for the trip to the best anticipated city of our trip: San Francisco. Getting out of the Yosemite region is about as hard as getting into it, long and windy roads lead you eventually to an Interstate leading to SF. Entering the Bay Area is
Continue readingToday we’ve got a full day to explore the wilderness of Yosemite National Park. And there’s lots of it! Like Grand Canyon NP and Zion NP, Yosemite NP has its own free shuttle bus system. It runs on hybrid drive buses with diesel-electric power, which are on a 10 minute schedule. Great for hopping on or off! We started our
Continue readingParting Ridgecrest was easy, after a cosy breakfast watching soccer with two other couples (I guess there were not more guests at the hotel) we left and headed for the second National Park in the USA, which also is the biggest in the lower 48 states: Yosemite National Park. Home of two valleys where Giant Sequoia can be found, and
Continue readingWhat stays in Vegas… doesn’t leave Vegas. It is as simple as that. So we left. Checked out, tugged al baggage to the car and drove off. Destination? Ridgecrest. Our main goal for today was not Ridgecrest, as one might have guessed; it is Death Valley. The lowest and hottest point of North America. Today it was a mere 43
Continue readingSleeping in our lush hotel in the kingsize bed is quite nice, I can get used to that! The only thing is that the constant ringing and plinging and zinging of the slotmachines is getting to you after about 15 minutes… Having bought a full day pass to the buffet at the Luxor we had breakfast and git ready to
Continue readingRight after we woke up in our western style bed over at the Historic Pioneer Lodge in Springdale, we started our day off with a healthy *ahum* breakfast at the local saloon, also known as the hotel’s restaurant. We’re getting tired of the western style by now, and are quickly on our way to Sin City. With a quick stop
Continue readingZion National Park has, like two other NP’s, a free shuttle bus system. You can safely ride the bus from the local town to the park, transfer to the park’s line and travel inside the park with those buses. All free! We did just that to and in Zion, and I can tell you: it’s great. There’s no parking drama
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After waking up from the alarm set way too early, we set out to see the sunrise at Bryce Canyon. Let me tell you: 04:45 is not ok. Logically, we watched the sun rise above the horizon and the mountains at Sunrise Point, while last night we looked at the sun setting from Sunset Point. There is logic to that,
Continue readingVery early in the morning, we got up and got ready for an exciting day. First up: Antelope Canyon. Named after the African animals, the original settlers thought the cattle held by the native Indians were antelope but they were mistaken. The trip was on a huge pickup truck with two rows of seats built in the trunk driven by
Continue readingAfter our full day at the Grand Canyon, “the cookies were all eaten” and we were due in the next hotel. As it was in Page, AZ the pressure was on to get there in time. Unfortunately, there are a whole bunch of fun things to do on the road between Tusayan and Page. We started our day off with
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