I drag my trolley case through downtown Chicago. It feels good to walk after spending the last couple of hours on the plane that brought me from Baltimore to Illinois. The sky is incredibly blue, the air fresh, and on this early Sunday morning, you could almost smell fall approaching. I was on my way to Union Station, where my train would leave in a few hours. Westbound again.
Utah offers some of the most stunning landscapes I have ever seen. These landscapes are also protected and made accessible to visitors in five national parks. We visited three of them on our trip.
Well, there was this funny slip of speech I made a couple of times while hiking the Tahoe Rim Trail: I managed to mash together “South Lake Tahoe” and, for whatever reason, “Salt Lake City”. So I came up with something like “Salt Lake Tahoe” and it became that running gag between John and me. However, after having finished the trail, we got back to Reno and got a rental car.
I am a bit late with catching up … but – even though I have left the States for now – I would like to share our trip out west. After we drove from Las Vegas through Death Valley National Park, we stayed in Ridgecrest for one night. Ridgecrest was one of the trail towns I stayed at when I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in 2017.
The United States offer some epic landscapes and what better way is there to explore them than by going on an epic road trip? As we had a couple of days to spend before attending a friends’ wedding, we decided to get a rental car in Las Vegas and drive to Wrightwood not by taking the shortest, but the probably most scenic way!
Las Vegas – it is one of those places that fascinate me: It is somehow ugly and tacky and it offers in general ridiculously too much of everything, but it is also entertaining by offering good dining and a lot of distraction – both, in its many bars, shows and outside the city limits with man-made sights and natural wonders.
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Travelling along the Appalachian Mountains after having had to leave the Benton MacKaye Trail.
Die USA sind auch ein großartiges Land zum Wandern. Drei epische Fernwanderwege führen von Süd nach Nord (oder umgekehrt) und wer den Pacific Crest Trail an der Westküste, den Continental Divide Trail über die Rocky Mountains und den Appalachian Trail an der Ostküste gegangen ist, hat etwa 8000 Meilen absolviert und darf sich Triple Crowner nennen. Neben diesen drei bekanntesten, gibt es weitere Fernwanderwege, die das Land durchziehen. Aber es gibt zahllose kürzere Trails und Wege; insbesondere in den Nationalparks kann man wunderbar und auch mehrere Tage wandern.
Hohe Berge, rauhe Küsten, wilde Tiere, die Weite der arktischen Tundra und wenig Menschen und ganz, gaaanz viel Platz für Natur. Das ist wohl das, was die meisten Menschen mit Kanada verbinden. Der zweitgrößte Staat der Erde ist das Traumziel vieler – ganz besonders von Outdoor-Enthusiasten, die das Wandern und Paddeln lieben.