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On the 8th we arrived in San Francisco, Wendy drove us around and showed us the main attractions, finally we drove over the Golden Gate Bridge, walked back to be picked up by Wendy and be transferred to the gateway … Continue reading
Our last stop on the trek (before San Francisco) was the Yosemite NP. The first day mostly consisted of driving to Yosemite, passing Mono Lake and the Tioga Pass.
The second day was another hiking day – I did what is probably the most strenuous day hike around – the Halfdome hike, a 17 mile or 27 km hike with an 1 mile or 1600m height gain on the way up and the same number in height loss for the way down – a hard, but really rewarding hike.
After coming back from the hike we joined the group for pizza – our last official tour dinner.
We arrived in the late afternoon of the 4th in Las Vegas, enough time to get fresh and have a great night out.
We had a late start the next morning, went into town for lunch buffet in the Bellagio – afterwards we had a crazy taxi drive to the Circus Circus for bungy jumping.
The next activity also took us high up – we went on top the Stratosphere tower, afterwards we walked the strip – pure Las Vegas amazement.
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From Cowboy Camp we drove to the Grand Canyon. We arrived at our campground some time in the afternoon, enough time left for a plane flight over the canyon – then dinner and into the park to see the sun … Continue reading
After the visit of the Monument Valley Park we were driven to Slim and Kody’s cowboy camp near Mexican Hat.
The cowboy camp included a sunset horseback ride (riding into the sunset on a horse – felt a bit like Lucky Luke), then a cowboy style dinner, line-dancing and roping lessons. We spent the night on the property, either in a Hogan, an indian tent or just outside. The next morning we were offered another horseback ride and a cowboy breakfast (breakfast tacos).
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The next morning Wendy drove us down to the Monument Valley (about 2-3 hours drive). Here we had a 2 hours jeep tour with Indians as guides.
We did more in Moab than just visiting the National Park, on the 31st we were offered to take part in a Hummer tour through the fabulous outside of Moab, including an offroad track next to Slickrock Trail, Prostitute Arch and a sanddune.
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After a three hours drive from Colorado to Utah we arrived in the red-rock south-west. We visited Arch NP the next morning just in time for a cool sunrise, Wendy took us to the Window section of the park – … Continue reading
From Denver we drove into the Rocky Mountains – higher and higher (also passing by infamous South Park). We set up our camp in a statepark near Ridgeway.
The next day was filled with several activities; in the morning we did a short hike (about 2.5 hours) in the vicinity of Ouray, followed by mountain biking tour (or better rolling down a mountain) in the afternoon. In the early evening we finally visited a clothing optional hot spring – a nice chance to relax from this strenous day.
Denver – where the fun began. After two days of cornfields, Denver was the first opportunity to see and actually do something fun.
The afternoon we had time to explore the town center – before we met again to visit a baseball game and see the San Francisco Giants win over the Denver Rockies. After this new (boring) experience we went to an Irish pub to have some beers and/ or ciders.
