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USA 2010
20th of June - 14th of July
2010
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| 20th of June |
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Geneva-Montreal-Chicago-Las
Vegas |
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We
take the train from Vevey to Geneva |
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We arrive in Montreal-Trudeau airport |
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We
arrive in Chicago |
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We
arrive in Las Vegas |
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We
stay in the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas |
| 21st of June |
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Las Vegas-Tussayan |
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Our
hotel Mirage in Las Vegas |
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Our trip
starts....Las Vegas -
Grand Canyon |
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Hoover Dam (Lake Mead) |
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Grand Canyon NP |
| 22th of June |
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Grand Canyon-Monument Valley |
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Grand Canyon
NP |
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We
take a bus ride through the Grand Canyon NP |
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On
the way to Kayenta |
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We
arrive in Tuba City |
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We
arrive in Kayenta and have diner in Mc Donalds |
| 23rd of June |
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Kayenta-Monument Valley-Page |
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Our
hotel Holyday Inn in Kayenta |
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On
the way to the Monument Valley SP |
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Monument
Valley State Park |
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Our
hotel "Page Boy" in Page |
| 24th of June |
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Antelope Canyon-Zion NP |
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We
visit the Antelope Canyon SP |
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On
the way to the Zyon NP |
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Zion
NP |
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Our
hotel "Bumbleberry" in Springdale |
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Historic
Pioneer Restaurant Springdale Zyon NP |
| 25th of June |
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Springdale Zyon NP-Bryce Canyon NP-Tropic |
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Zyon
NP (cont.) |
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On
the way to Bryce Canyon NP |
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The
Mugwumps Antiques in Hatt UT |
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Bryce
Canyon NP |
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The
"Bullberry
Inn" in Tropic |
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Tropic |
| 26th of June |
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Tropic - National Scenic Byway 12 - Salt Lake City |
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We
take the National Scenic Byway 12 to Salt Lake City |
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Boulder
Mountains |
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Salt
Lake City |
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We
stay in the hotel "Carton INN" |
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We
take the tramway.... |
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We
have diner in "The Star of India" Restaurant |
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... and then we walk
through Salt Lake City |
| 27th of June |
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Salt Lake City - Yellowstone West Village |
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Our
hotel "Carton INN" in Salt Lake City |
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On
the way to Yellowstone Village |
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We
take a break in St. Antony, Freman County ID |
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Henry's
Lake State Park |
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We
arrive in West Yellowstone Village |
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Our
Hotel "Stagecoach INN" |
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The
Lobby in the Stagecoach INN |
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We
visit the Yellowstone Museum |
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Old Snaggletooth |
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Henrys
Lake |
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We
have diner in the "Old Town Cafe" |
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Some
pottery in a store |
| 28th of June |
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Yellowstone NP |
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We
visit the Yellowstone NP |
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Noris
Geyser Bassin |
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Emerald
spring |
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Steamboat
Geyser |
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Echinus |
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The
Mammoth Hot springs Upper Terraces Area |
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The
Mammoth Hot springs Lower Terraces Area |
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View
August 1989 |
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View
June 2010 |
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Petrified
Tree near Tower Tosevelt |
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Raku
Pottery
in the Canyon Village |
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The Grizzly Baer |
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Sunraven
Pass (elevation 8859 ft-2700m) |
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On
the way back to Yellowstone West Village |
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Back
in Yellowstone West Village we have diner in the "Three Baer"
Restaurant |
| 29th of June |
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West Yellowstone - Old Faithfull -Grand Teton
NP-Jackson Hole |
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The Bold Eagle aerie |
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Lower
Geyser Bassin |
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Fountain
Paint Pot |
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Great
Fountain Geyser |
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Midway
Geyser Basin |
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Grand
Prismatic Spring |
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Opal
Pool |
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Turquoise
Pool |
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Black
Sand Basin |
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Rainbow
Pool |
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Sunset
Lake |
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Emerald
Pool |
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Old
Faithful |
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Visitor-Center
Grant Village |
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Lewis
Lake |
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Passing
through Grand Teton NP |
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Jackson
Lake |
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Grand
Teton Mountains |
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Arrival
in Jackson Hole |
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We
have diner in the "El Abuelito" Mexican Restaurant |
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We
spend the evening in the "Cowboy Bar" with Live music |
| 30th of June |
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Jackson Hole-Salt Lake City |
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Our
Motel in Jackson Hole " El Rancho" |
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Some
pictures from a journal of Jackson Hole's ski area |
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Before
we leave we take a walk through Jackson Hole |
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On
the way to the Grand Teton NP |
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We arrive in Paris and visit the church |
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Bear
Lake |
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We
take a brake in Garden City |
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An
other view of the Baer Lake |
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We
arrive near the Great Salt Lake |
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We
arrive in West Valley City near Salt Lake City |
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We
have diner in the "Olive Garden Italian Restaurant" |
| 1st of July |
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Salt Lake City (West Valley City)-Bingham Copper
Mine-Elko |
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We
have breakfast in the Hotel "Baymont INN" |
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We
visit the Bingham Cooper Mine |
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The
Bingham Copper Mine 1950 |
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The
Great Salt Lake |
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This
places still belong to the Copper mine |
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An
other view of the
Great Salt Lake |
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The
Great Salt Desert |
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Bonneville
Salt Flats (known as International Speedway) |
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On
the way to Elko |
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We
have diner in Elko in a Wendys |
| 2nd of July |
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Elko-Reno |
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Our
Hotel "EconoLodge" in Elko |
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On
the way to Reno |
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We
arrive in Winnemucca (In
the Event Center runs a competition for Cowboys) |
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We
take a break in Lovelock |
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We
arrive in Reno |
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We
visit the Visitor Center of Reno |
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We stay over night in the
"Days Inn" in Reno |
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We
take a walk through some Casinos in Reno |
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We
have diner-buffet in a Casino |
| 3rd of July |
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Reno-Napa |
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On
the way to Napa Valley |
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We
take a break in Truckee |
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Truckee
on the other side of the rails |
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The
Emigrant Gap |
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Our
Hotel "Chardonnay Lodge" in Napa |
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We
make a trip in the Napa Valley |
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We
stop in Youthville for wine degustation |
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Sunset
in Napa Valley |
| 4th of July |
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Napa-San Francisco |
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On
the way to San Francisco |
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The Oakland Bay Bridge |
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We
arrive in San Francisco |
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We
stay for two nights in the TraveLoge Motel near Main Street of San Francisco |
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We
visit Telegraph Hill, but because of all the bushes, you can't see much |
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We have lunch
in "Fog Harbor" |
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On
Fisherman's Wharf |
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The
Oakland Bay Bridge from far away |
| 5th of July |
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San Francisco |
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We
make a "shopping tour" through San Francisco's Main Street |
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In
the Nordstrom - Center we have lunch, before we go back to the hotel |
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Our
Hotel TraveLodge |
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We
decide, even with bad weather conditions, to drive over the Golden Gate Bridge |
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The
Golden Gate Bridge |
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San
Francisco in the fog |
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Sausolito |
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Sausolito's
Hippie place |
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Sausolito's
houseboats |
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On
the way back to San Francisco |
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We take diner
in the famous Cliff house Restaurant |
| 6th of July |
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San Francisco |
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An
other day in San Francisco |
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I make a big
walk for replacement parts for my old American pressure cocker Presto |
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In
the store "Forever 21" we search for souvenirs |
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The
famous cable car still has to be turned manually |
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Finally
we are a bit hungry and found a nice place for lunch |
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....
I think it was in Macys for men... |
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For
diner we go by the old cable car of San Francisco to China town |
| 7th of July |
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San Francisco - Monterey |
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On
the way direction ano Nuevo SP |
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We
have a break at Pigeon Point Lighthouse |
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We
visit Año Nuevo State Park with the sea elefants |
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The
sea elefants |
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The
Landscape in the ano Nuevo State Park |
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We
take a brake at Moss Landing, to see the sea otters and sealions |
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We
arrive in Monterey |
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We have diner
in "Isabellas Italien Seafood and Steak Restaurant" on Fisherman's Warf in Monterey |
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The
coin press maschine |
| 8th of July |
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Monterey-Mariposa |
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Our hotel
(TraveLoge) in Monterey |
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We are on the way
to visit the famous Monterey Bay Aquarium |
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Monterey
Bay Aquarium |
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Dance of
the seahorses |
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The
Jelly fishes |
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The
Penguins |
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The
sea otters |
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The
gentle seagull |
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From
a movie about octopus |
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A
place where you can touch all sorts of sea creatures even stingrays |
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On
the way from Monterey to St. Luis Reservoir |
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We
take a break on a fruit barn and buy some fruits |
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St.
Luis Reservoir |
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We
arrive in Mariposa |
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We
have diner in "The Butterfly Cafe" |
| 9th of July |
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Mariposa
Grove-Yosemite NP |
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We
take breakfast in the "Sugar Pine" Restaurant |
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Yosemite NP
Mariposa Grove with Sequoia trees |
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Bachelor
and Three Graces Sequoia Trees |
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The
Grizzly Giant Sequoia Tree |
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On
the long way to the Fallen Monarch Sequoia Tree |
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The
Fallen Monarch |
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Some
Giant Sequoia Trees on the way |
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We
arrive in the Yosemite
NP |
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El
Capitan (Elevation 7,569 ft / 2,307 m) |
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We
have a nice diner in the Deli Garden Cafe in Mariposa with music of a country
band |
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Mariposa-Yosemite NP-Mono Lake |
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We
take a bus ride through Yosemite NP |
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The
Half Dome (elevation 8842 feet / 2650 meters) |
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Siesta
Lake on the way to the Monolake |
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The
Olmsted point (elevation 8,360 feet / 2,548.13 m) |
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Tenaya
Lake (elevation 8,150 feet / 2,484 m) |
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Meadows
on the Tioga pass road |
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Tioga
Lake (elevation 9,646 ft / 2,940 m) |
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Ellery
Lake (elevation 9538ft. / 2907m) |
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Tioga
Pass (elevation 9943 ft. / 3031 m |
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The Mono Lake
from far |
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We
arrive in Lee Vining and stay in the "Lee Vining" Motel |
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The
Mono Lake |
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We
have diner in the "Whoa Nellie Deli" near
the Tioga Gas Mart station |
| 11th of July |
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Mono Lake-Bodie-Lone Pine |
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We
visit the Ghost Town Bodie
(State Historic Park) |
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The
museum of Bodie |
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Lee
Vining near Mono Lake |
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On the
way to Lone Pine |
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We
pass through Bishop |
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We
take a short break on the high way |
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We arrive
in Lone Pine |
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We
stay in the Mt. Whitney Motel |
| 12th of July |
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Lone
Pine-Death Valley-Las Vegas |
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An
American
construction of an extention |
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Lone
Pine |
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We
take breakfast in a Donuts Restaurant |
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Here
I bought an Nativ Indian Flute |
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The
famous Mt. Whitney in the morning |
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On
the way to Death Valley NP |
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Death
Valley Salt Lake |
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We
arrive in Stope Pipe Wells |
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Bad
Water Bassin |
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Zabriskie
Point |
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Joshua
Trees (Yucca brevifolia) |
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We
arrive in Las Vegas |
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Our
Hotel in Las Vegas Tropicana |
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For
Diner we go Downtown of Las Vegas |
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We
have diner (buffet) in the Garden Court Buffet |
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Freemont
Street |
| 13th of July |
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Las Vegas |
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We
take breakfast in one of the Casinos |
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And
we walk through all this famous hotels....it's amazing! |
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Back
in the Hotel.... |
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We
take a ride with the Las Vegas monorail train |
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We
are inside of the Pyramide...and are hungry |
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Back
in the hotel we take a break in the swimming pool |
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In
the evening we have diner at Cravings buffet |
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Las
Vegas is full of Luxury |
| 14th of July |
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Las
Vegas-Newark-Geneva |
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Early in
the morning on Las Vegas airport |
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We
arrive in Newark airport |
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From
far away we can see the skyline of Manhatten |