Before we left the ranch again, we had a look into the taxidermy showroom, happy to see that no one of us had made it to the wall – and taking the opportunity to get a group picture with a grizzly.
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Heading South – to the Iron Wheel Guest Ranch
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.
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
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
Independence National Historic Park
I was over in North Carolina for a 1.5 week business trip. Over the weekend I decided to leave the South and head up to Philadelphia to explore US history.
I made it into Philadelphia in the early morning, made my way downtown and started exploring the sites around Independence National Historic Park straight away.I first stopped at the Liberty Bell to then continue on for Independence Square and a guided tour through Independence Hall led by an enthusiastic park ranger. After a quick lunch I continued in the National Constitution Center.
