We left Glacier NP after a short stop at the visitor center, now heading South for 460 km to the Iron Wheel Guest Ranch near Whitehall, MT.
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Grinnell Glacier Hike
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Another driving day to reach our next main destination – Glacier NP. As we were on a commercial vehicle, we could not use the short-cut through the park via Going to the Sun Road and instead had to detour around … Continue reading
Into Montana via “the Center of the Universe”
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A long driving day was ahead of us, making a distance of around 600 km. We left Ellensburg, WA in the morning and hit the interstate, passed through the Idaho panhandle to get into Missoula, MT in the evening. On … Continue reading
Mt. Rainier NP
The tour started in the early morning; Kelly our tour leader picked us (a total of eight from the UK, Switzerland, Italy and Germany) up at the airport and we were heading South – with the first destination closeby -Mt. Rainier National Park.
We got into the park – after stops at a supermarket, a REI (outdoor shop), a liquor store and a gas station – around lunch time. We did check out the visitor center, did a walk nearby to then move on to a trailhead for a short hike – before continuing to Ellensburg (WA), where we stayed for the night.
Seattle & the “Future”
I flew up from San Francisco to Seattle, arrived there around midday.After dumping my luggage in the hotel (literally on the other side of the street from Seattle Tacoma Airport) I made my way by commuter train into town. Here I changed to the monorail – a left-over of the 1962 world fair, built to move the masses from downtown to the Space Needle – now also my destination.
Taking the monorail had a Jetson feeling … back from the atomic age, with endless and risk-free (remember … duck and cover) energy for everyone … and arriving at the Space Needle kind of confirmed that feeling … amazing – considering that this is how they – 50 years back – pictured us living today.
After coming down again from the Space Needle I visited the nearby Science Fiction and Music museum (EMP … Experience Music Project) before making my way back to downtown (for a tea at Starbucks in the city where Starbucks actually got started) and – later on – the shores of Elliott Bay.
Golden Gate NRA & San Francisco
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This vacation did start slightly different than normal – instead of heading straight to the starting point of a tour, I did a sort of stop-over in San Francisco to visit Lisa, who I had met on my trip to … Continue reading
BBQ in Nieuwpoort
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Our friends from the Jeugdbrandweer Nieuwpoort had invited for their yearly barbecue, so six of us made – as a weekend trip – our way up to our sister city Nieuwpoort in Belgium to attend … below some impressions.
dOCUMENTA (13) @ Kassel
This weekend me and two friends made it up to Kassel (about three hours by train) for a visit of the dOCUMENTA, one of (if not the) world’s most important and biggest festivals of contemporary art.
For more information visit http://d13.documenta.de.
Below some artful impressions from our visit.
Through the Business Center to the Museum District
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After a good breakfast – American Diner style – I made my way through the street canyon of the business part of town up to the museum distract. I spent considerable time in the Franklin Institute Science Museum, where I … Continue reading
Old Town & Ships
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After all that history around the founding and the early years of the US, I walked over into the old city of Philadelphia and then on to Penn’s Landing to visit the Independence Seaport Museum. It was here that many … Continue reading