tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242146382024-03-07T19:20:19.621+01:00toysfornoiseMusic, my main energy source !
Stand up and Evolve !!!Paul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-27105186743964209492012-06-22T03:15:00.001+02:002012-06-22T03:15:48.341+02:00fresh livesetrecorded 19th may 2012 in Eindhoven during the uniks vs den bass event
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3nTjNf_vSfiGxgnoETrcCZulgCc8aBHswzyzZw2jPPq_2GSNsy-9_Aw4BonRPfKSUDiFDpf-RhbF9L0jl2z594vQ2BTsuTDZE6Jvak55_y5nn7Yymx1cjNCKEioZlkRpt9wESZA/s1600/uniks19mei3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="399" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3nTjNf_vSfiGxgnoETrcCZulgCc8aBHswzyzZw2jPPq_2GSNsy-9_Aw4BonRPfKSUDiFDpf-RhbF9L0jl2z594vQ2BTsuTDZE6Jvak55_y5nn7Yymx1cjNCKEioZlkRpt9wESZA/s400/uniks19mei3.jpg" /></a></div>Paul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-46893920407114774942012-03-30T00:06:00.003+02:002012-04-17T02:47:09.328+02:00out now : accu records oo7 - Be e.p.its finally out on heavy weight vinyl, the be e.p. by toysfornoise <br /><br /><br />prelisten here or go to juno for example : http://www.junodownload.com/products/be/1933930-02/<br /><br /><iframe src="http://widgets.itunes.apple.com/itunes.html?wtype=4&app_id=null&country=us&partnerId=0&affiliate_id=0&t=toysfornoise%2520&d=moving%2520more%2520than%2520just%2520your%2520feet&pl=0,511615395,511615396,511615397,511615398,511615399,511615400,511615441,513808793,511592637,511592638" frameborder=0 style="overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:hidden;width:250px;height:300px;border:0px" ></iframe><br /><br /><br />this ep will be released digitally on the 11th april, so now you can finally play the wav's and support the system for more noise !<br /><br />from 30th march at ANTENNE (tilburg) and SHIPWREC STORE (nijmegen) <br />from 5th april Toolbox Distribution Paris <br /><br />contact me if you would like to help out in getting these tunes into the world<br /><br />suport the system<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwtJCZoUIvS5zfF1_XNpiAdYq2PPnT9o10EIQWNvgphBdfufmtOOzEvmKRbp4BQh6iaOg-wOvS4mKFpD1s90wHG8gwv-Whn3vHdZ7rS43T2-GoXl3WctI5Fw8Fqjj_y0miJ0sUfg/s1600/Accu_007_Label_chargeside.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicgyD-u35Mhorntuj-ffBxYmW0qi2kDmDVHBpkE29uCaHH43hvL8w_0pdx-3My_qaDa5vnyNdrVaeFgXfwBYlDcRphD3nCtmCMAL5J3fzF0Y0MsYF03EXpKofx6M3uEM3F2dSljQ/s400/SOP+012-1312_700.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722462823115106978" /></a></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />My first "digital only" release has seen the light of day, it came out on the Spirit of Progress label and you can find it here : <br /><br />http://noisj.nl/labels/spiritofprogress<br /><br /><br />it's not my regular cruising speed but quite nice for a change !<br /><br /><br />the release also features a collab with "hidden rooms" that resulted in a slamming piece of music :<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYqStF7mEyY&feature=related"></a><br /><br />http://youtu.be/ujmpeBHqhE0<br /><br /><br />enjoyPaul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-44223834746767928752011-07-19T03:45:00.036+02:002011-07-19T07:44:28.189+02:00on the road 2011 usa - week 5This one is big ... loads of pictures, but I wanted all of them in it ... also taking advantage of an amazing spot I am right now .. Ship Bottom it is called .. on Long Island, New jersey ... standing right by the sea and houses on my left, seemingly there is a wifi signal coming from somewhere so instead of doing these updates in a starbucks when I actually want to drive or see things, I can now do it in peace, after dinner .. so here it is ... the final week of the first leg that started in San Fransisco and ended there too .... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3c4NRC-Nk1fo-3F-fvgj5MqsmLHxrX0f98o0Im1e-oontK3hJotKxBtcThyphenhyphen6x6v1gcs2F_DShcBZ9-u_6ZYru1rBUi3TQBwsgNct8CNIahYO6Yo8GXHz9YtSTx9G_TQh7MMj01g/s1600/DSC09524.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3c4NRC-Nk1fo-3F-fvgj5MqsmLHxrX0f98o0Im1e-oontK3hJotKxBtcThyphenhyphen6x6v1gcs2F_DShcBZ9-u_6ZYru1rBUi3TQBwsgNct8CNIahYO6Yo8GXHz9YtSTx9G_TQh7MMj01g/s200/DSC09524.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630915673203589090" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />WEEK 5 --------<br /><br /><br />31st may <br /><br />I am still in ....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUVtQwPmgguRk5er-uX_PmhY63mfcSVSyYbw5sFqQ9eDENxTqmyAXKY1pnOSjXY6kAXE4IvpgVMKFD_8Y54ysYsHco_5ixGs3PG8ZMOF3rnupfaLlVbddYR4hguIw10ItwlZZ2kw/s1600/DSC07628.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUVtQwPmgguRk5er-uX_PmhY63mfcSVSyYbw5sFqQ9eDENxTqmyAXKY1pnOSjXY6kAXE4IvpgVMKFD_8Y54ysYsHco_5ixGs3PG8ZMOF3rnupfaLlVbddYR4hguIw10ItwlZZ2kw/s200/DSC07628.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630935125188494178" /></a><br /><br />More wolf action today as I had gotten up nice and early at 04.30am making my way to Lamar Valley around 5am ... And like the other mornings during this magical and unique "roadblock week" there were not too many cars and people around, so it was another great morning .. this time there had actually been a fresh kill. What happened was when I arrived to the Lamar Valley I quickly spotted the people that follow the wolves as the "leader" drives a big yellow 4wd and he actually has radio receivers for the chips that the wolves carry so he knows when they are around ... there were some folks there by the side of the road with their scopes, trough which you could follow it all up close, and this was pretty amazing stuff ... a wolf had killed a baby deer with the mom still hanging around, totally in shock. When it was too late she scared the wolf away, it came back later for it was far from finished eating. What a scene to witness ... makes you feel real tiny ! scopes dont take pictures, so you have to make do with the grizzly bear I spotted from far away (luckily as these are huge and you dont want to surprise one of them on your hikes .. you can see the bump they have on their shoulde, this distinguishes them from the black bear, apart from their colour, although most black bears are acually brown coloured .. uuuuuuh ....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh-6o7HMLIICjbDOtyFpbc54wUYeYcIFx3oMHuNABX-rYabqGWmKGCMkz1vRiLlFRJ3wjiYsRL8S9RFRfHR8jAq_5XBhJNWBOOL4bM8G_z-YSoYGvQBTbOx_JkkHTruXb-451BHA/s1600/DSC08209+copy.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 130px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh-6o7HMLIICjbDOtyFpbc54wUYeYcIFx3oMHuNABX-rYabqGWmKGCMkz1vRiLlFRJ3wjiYsRL8S9RFRfHR8jAq_5XBhJNWBOOL4bM8G_z-YSoYGvQBTbOx_JkkHTruXb-451BHA/s200/DSC08209+copy.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630879305944547602" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLCIFyIMW6UzVHAzi5WCHygnTmJg-aGbkcGWZsCElnzvLqc4B5r8mLeDW7aZLb_Kr7xKGIvNH2ZDO9qHa4Vvqc_M5R0Ri6RwFv5UTO87dgI22jtUhk8fqRwoKldjYw6tv7hVy_Wg/s1600/DSC08204.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLCIFyIMW6UzVHAzi5WCHygnTmJg-aGbkcGWZsCElnzvLqc4B5r8mLeDW7aZLb_Kr7xKGIvNH2ZDO9qHa4Vvqc_M5R0Ri6RwFv5UTO87dgI22jtUhk8fqRwoKldjYw6tv7hVy_Wg/s200/DSC08204.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630879305468834962" /></a><br /><br /><br />After a couple of hours watching the wolves, deer, pronghorn antilopes <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqpKSd4Z6bXP-lM7B0G9DjPCoqbqr3R8BJMWqAxf8IRu4aLRsZq1Tw6i8fWVPCqlzXJWlA7Z5mcdCLYYEeUCmTiQyz3LP3FgQVMKYPR1AsKAwrureZ9KA47m-5HSpQlywkYJb5vQ/s1600/DSC08723.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqpKSd4Z6bXP-lM7B0G9DjPCoqbqr3R8BJMWqAxf8IRu4aLRsZq1Tw6i8fWVPCqlzXJWlA7Z5mcdCLYYEeUCmTiQyz3LP3FgQVMKYPR1AsKAwrureZ9KA47m-5HSpQlywkYJb5vQ/s200/DSC08723.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630880672578285282" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizJrL-RJfjBDJdO_giNrkHs5LAwuRKs60RCKGx9_VJuDRkvT5sWWbqeq-AOKFA10IRUOUaHDGik1ZkymdqUrcisHFUBg3ucNuF5nZFvPyYKcMcTGYjfxRx8WNOmGJjKHcXcKQGfg/s1600/DSC08340.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizJrL-RJfjBDJdO_giNrkHs5LAwuRKs60RCKGx9_VJuDRkvT5sWWbqeq-AOKFA10IRUOUaHDGik1ZkymdqUrcisHFUBg3ucNuF5nZFvPyYKcMcTGYjfxRx8WNOmGJjKHcXcKQGfg/s200/DSC08340.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630882835587110690" /></a><br /><br />and some coyotes do their thing I went back to my bus for food and coffee, feeling very satisfied by what I had witnessed. Took a much needed nap and later that day I went for a great hike into the slough creek area, great colourful fields with loads of birds, a squirrel that walked the wrong way and ended up right in front of me and my camera <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDb0eONSPe3V6lg-FtIz-aniemGUbw4oUrezoDUh2OTghqNHBsOZ_5y_JLnuSRYa2aM50csqxYNrQ3nhaJg3sxstP-991fOtmN0H5HudduTzvWOD8dL3llnFYBYxGk8x9ntCruaA/s1600/DSC08732.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDb0eONSPe3V6lg-FtIz-aniemGUbw4oUrezoDUh2OTghqNHBsOZ_5y_JLnuSRYa2aM50csqxYNrQ3nhaJg3sxstP-991fOtmN0H5HudduTzvWOD8dL3llnFYBYxGk8x9ntCruaA/s200/DSC08732.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630880678398533266" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm_mfq803JCU2M9glsnUSdVQvODjVUyDoT1aXzbZZ3EgtJAvF0VvCswUcYhR3tRPpg5N1B99O6CS3VQVoh111SOv9FheYkhPDXz1NZJWJSa6m_Mx9gTaWDTiB70qlGrw_rCkWPdQ/s1600/DSC08731.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm_mfq803JCU2M9glsnUSdVQvODjVUyDoT1aXzbZZ3EgtJAvF0VvCswUcYhR3tRPpg5N1B99O6CS3VQVoh111SOv9FheYkhPDXz1NZJWJSa6m_Mx9gTaWDTiB70qlGrw_rCkWPdQ/s200/DSC08731.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630880679382583154" /></a><br /><br />I even spotted this beautiful grouse when I was trying to get closer to an interesting looking spot in the forest.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnYN-Jppp3QhX8lcbX9RQVALjDUc2jnBRvcw58nOxYgHHA5uS8IQVGCL_OP7-ZhnnLO9dTxc9_raWQ3MEAHFJFoNj2ZZvYgc972y2JJp9fwZdvbuTB8I87Q0TjUwU5OAWkGAwXhQ/s1600/DSC08745.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnYN-Jppp3QhX8lcbX9RQVALjDUc2jnBRvcw58nOxYgHHA5uS8IQVGCL_OP7-ZhnnLO9dTxc9_raWQ3MEAHFJFoNj2ZZvYgc972y2JJp9fwZdvbuTB8I87Q0TjUwU5OAWkGAwXhQ/s200/DSC08745.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630880683625487314" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhOdt8TuRwXRFvFL_U5ELjxzPIGjC_7Q_WIH-Guxd2rnh39pTSK9EhQHroe0CHW7vjqh3IjajB7RwoBBy3kt0tJiZ2S8M2vgRnk8ge2x2HdW1mPBXD686bIk8DqmMgKM6sooDmZQ/s1600/DSC08743.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhOdt8TuRwXRFvFL_U5ELjxzPIGjC_7Q_WIH-Guxd2rnh39pTSK9EhQHroe0CHW7vjqh3IjajB7RwoBBy3kt0tJiZ2S8M2vgRnk8ge2x2HdW1mPBXD686bIk8DqmMgKM6sooDmZQ/s200/DSC08743.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630881470426469778" /></a><br /><br /><br />After my hike and some food I made my way to the Lamar valley again for more pictures of the sunset <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQiY9qT5sXepa7_cjgKNZAQoUEWgkK4mJtt4kcDsdtNPm6CfNEaJEiTG1y7lx_uff-BOxLFax1yj7pk5dwp8W4JTM4UPxNm-eqSSGM9cHXkHLAlLYftlgs3UQIVonvKpvPJ8zCGQ/s1600/DSC08814.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQiY9qT5sXepa7_cjgKNZAQoUEWgkK4mJtt4kcDsdtNPm6CfNEaJEiTG1y7lx_uff-BOxLFax1yj7pk5dwp8W4JTM4UPxNm-eqSSGM9cHXkHLAlLYftlgs3UQIVonvKpvPJ8zCGQ/s200/DSC08814.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630887472092663986" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF7TN7sjNQ32iEeLZpjBj21aqvVnSVpdoyjTys_03Jwtp3LsGK-of9frxox4tQ4ij9MNhfMJHryfH8gxIzIlfehlZFBWS_1JtK4WcGtgM37LQrLdRHuTA7oBmmBnPQbtDZguVIhg/s1600/DSC08802.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF7TN7sjNQ32iEeLZpjBj21aqvVnSVpdoyjTys_03Jwtp3LsGK-of9frxox4tQ4ij9MNhfMJHryfH8gxIzIlfehlZFBWS_1JtK4WcGtgM37LQrLdRHuTA7oBmmBnPQbtDZguVIhg/s200/DSC08802.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630887468666587586" /></a><br /><br /><br />and more gazing trough my binoculars, made a short hike up the hill, spotted the bighorns !!! <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1lY6IzsJk9_b5Tuq4VTU5AjZ94lTZCAkAOTvCLvIQetImgkVhyYRS7hzFDyksizD00sUj0-p9IGNwbxHbF1ccXdABAVyTetWe6VzhOaH8iuMACCqcn7w6WzZJX7Ex0An9TzCLuQ/s1600/DSC08794+copy.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 128px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1lY6IzsJk9_b5Tuq4VTU5AjZ94lTZCAkAOTvCLvIQetImgkVhyYRS7hzFDyksizD00sUj0-p9IGNwbxHbF1ccXdABAVyTetWe6VzhOaH8iuMACCqcn7w6WzZJX7Ex0An9TzCLuQ/s200/DSC08794+copy.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630888966993556498" /></a><br /><br />yes, these are creatures you dont get to see from the road and even when you go out there, you hardly see these .. amazing stuff ... the sunset was magical from up there<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsDd4b_ULS7IaXToPOpArLJvXTagO9fyqQunUchUVIGV-KZX8GBRw6ErmPYUszWTgcXdjSR1miIxJRLNXqUiHa-gZ-zbgdjADUtwh5BvBiMSU5zpNpO2QBKx84_B-n7HLtxok_dg/s1600/DSC08811.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsDd4b_ULS7IaXToPOpArLJvXTagO9fyqQunUchUVIGV-KZX8GBRw6ErmPYUszWTgcXdjSR1miIxJRLNXqUiHa-gZ-zbgdjADUtwh5BvBiMSU5zpNpO2QBKx84_B-n7HLtxok_dg/s200/DSC08811.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630889489335021010" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokshWHG5OuWej9hsY4jH4jNBhg8oVZZlE1ORDSZUTPU1iXtbzF5h2lQLd8_NX3a-zQI1vgeHdvNWBDnLyjIi-w_Jj4N9tlxPlq2UnR-uQoJiOSCEE1kfjY7oxlsXIwkRaGHfbpQ/s1600/DSC08821.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokshWHG5OuWej9hsY4jH4jNBhg8oVZZlE1ORDSZUTPU1iXtbzF5h2lQLd8_NX3a-zQI1vgeHdvNWBDnLyjIi-w_Jj4N9tlxPlq2UnR-uQoJiOSCEE1kfjY7oxlsXIwkRaGHfbpQ/s200/DSC08821.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630889493520933842" /></a><br /><br />and as light faded I decided it was time to head "home" for another relaxing movie and a cup of tea after a tiring and long day .. that's what happens in these places, you get up so early, and go to bed late because you want to see the sunset and then re-arrange some pictures and write a bit in your diary .. and before you know it it is midnight or even later, and there are only four to five hours left before nature will unfold itself again in all its beauties .. aaaah what a dilemma ... ha ha .... and then I haven't mentioned the stars that come out at night ... <br /><br /><br />1st june <br /><br />Woke up nice and bright, the sun was out, it was going to be a nice day, decided to go for a hike around the lost lake since the road to the rest of the park still was not open and I did not feel like making the big detour to see more of the rest of the park. I'd rather enjoy the peace and uniqueness of being in a cutoff part of a place that is normally heeving with people. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfl2OAqE2yFWJEbMOlPzUC-4_UOEdGlL6gCNP89WmmrX5I6xpMuW-xR5LifGW0lzDJJtRvfyOywOekP5LSNR8b_gzK0qmfkckv-0ilgwgeWt7s82gCd8X-0EUUb8U3Sim-xNaWJQ/s1600/DSC08833.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfl2OAqE2yFWJEbMOlPzUC-4_UOEdGlL6gCNP89WmmrX5I6xpMuW-xR5LifGW0lzDJJtRvfyOywOekP5LSNR8b_gzK0qmfkckv-0ilgwgeWt7s82gCd8X-0EUUb8U3Sim-xNaWJQ/s200/DSC08833.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630890382800815522" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAABca03BePyaOSCq71hn8JDo2p0Kn3ngeVrzkD2fYr9ZY1065sQh0rMYHTZNGOtjLVroD2_SuwhDWu3tjO_a1OU5Gn7xmnm2dgjMvy7SJWTGqo4TpysJmx4MthxUtagOJZ5RHBQ/s1600/DSC08832.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAABca03BePyaOSCq71hn8JDo2p0Kn3ngeVrzkD2fYr9ZY1065sQh0rMYHTZNGOtjLVroD2_SuwhDWu3tjO_a1OU5Gn7xmnm2dgjMvy7SJWTGqo4TpysJmx4MthxUtagOJZ5RHBQ/s200/DSC08832.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630890378338772754" /></a><br /><br />So, on the trail again, starting with a nice waterfall and a deer that noticed me but did not run away when I passed by. Then I went off the trail as I made my way to a point high up, so I could have my sandwiches with a view too ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd2P0qC-wbHcQItUuSGqmwwgGW7xWFxN-TlBocfYhaiAEaaphiq-pxjmqC9-Jb9liG_ztQZ7elYUZ9BmYBUv_PuBB4Sb_7vcCZPVJRQ21FuM2urtfZuBNBuK19lbNNc0AXk1rnZw/s1600/DSC08861.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd2P0qC-wbHcQItUuSGqmwwgGW7xWFxN-TlBocfYhaiAEaaphiq-pxjmqC9-Jb9liG_ztQZ7elYUZ9BmYBUv_PuBB4Sb_7vcCZPVJRQ21FuM2urtfZuBNBuK19lbNNc0AXk1rnZw/s200/DSC08861.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630898242047096866" /></a><br /><br />I guess by the time I had made my way back down I was hungry again but hey, brought plenty of food and drink <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO9b7u2wfzhpuYW543D9J-HSIMuLtJ7e9HlZcX9wCfaJY4FXQV-qQDxydPK24e5L_UVpKWm2cwmiOsVX1yRtnnno1KW0uiFEeC4rUAfNYjqy05hYHAGT2Jg0GVQMsLGUSCuNo_Ag/s1600/DSC08841.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO9b7u2wfzhpuYW543D9J-HSIMuLtJ7e9HlZcX9wCfaJY4FXQV-qQDxydPK24e5L_UVpKWm2cwmiOsVX1yRtnnno1KW0uiFEeC4rUAfNYjqy05hYHAGT2Jg0GVQMsLGUSCuNo_Ag/s200/DSC08841.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630890375816053058" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjARd8KsRtTC9QrcvgwRipKfgyC7CKVVAGm9y1oMWp2XZBWn2xRghZp4n7H8pYE_NMkjXblubmBEO2pOP0vS6WOZazNFfLXcTkeE1YMajrqfVfOf18rCgo6MGd8gBAAnsQ8SXQ3sw/s1600/DSC08834.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjARd8KsRtTC9QrcvgwRipKfgyC7CKVVAGm9y1oMWp2XZBWn2xRghZp4n7H8pYE_NMkjXblubmBEO2pOP0vS6WOZazNFfLXcTkeE1YMajrqfVfOf18rCgo6MGd8gBAAnsQ8SXQ3sw/s200/DSC08834.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630890372823123842" /></a><br /><br /><br />I dropped by the ranger station on my way back as the ranger I had met earlier when I went to ask about the closed road condition had told me she would help me to let my parents know that all was ok by sending an email from her own mail address. I had not been able to communicate with my parents in any way for 10 days (no phone or internet there), which is on the edge of being not nice anymore cause I like to keep them updated when I am so far away, so I was pleased she would help me by notifying my parents. Then as I was at the ranger station the news came in that they had just opened the road that connected the tower area with the rest of the two loops in the park. This was an earlier "press release" about the rockslide<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Ls_nG-ji-28APMjYIP-_xl1dU8SlsXAxcIIsrpygrFG57di3SQVEFpXtdJ_1R2kYwmMs5YAakqMY3XPkC69Zsm8i329VkKYVXeosrNqTMg7k9cmv3ONLfdFuWTtATBubKVQp2w/s1600/DSC09077.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Ls_nG-ji-28APMjYIP-_xl1dU8SlsXAxcIIsrpygrFG57di3SQVEFpXtdJ_1R2kYwmMs5YAakqMY3XPkC69Zsm8i329VkKYVXeosrNqTMg7k9cmv3ONLfdFuWTtATBubKVQp2w/s200/DSC09077.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630891424026171362" /></a><br /><br />Yes, I thought at first, here we go ... but as I made my way to undiscovered areas over there .... it was strange, the feeling was different, there were a lot of ignorant people. And I mean that in many ways .. But I did see some amazing stuff again, and lots of snow indeed .... <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4wEujIpZCM7SweLGohQnxLEoayc48aFYba521CTqxQ-p_bWxL3bObk9w-gkME2muDxqWWDF3cpsE9oegbMUMu8pyHn0GCMPZbX5J3kcd0PX3TG3drzPz6HqOCZNsFxTXFSHcEDQ/s1600/DSC09004.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4wEujIpZCM7SweLGohQnxLEoayc48aFYba521CTqxQ-p_bWxL3bObk9w-gkME2muDxqWWDF3cpsE9oegbMUMu8pyHn0GCMPZbX5J3kcd0PX3TG3drzPz6HqOCZNsFxTXFSHcEDQ/s200/DSC09004.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630896815120318562" /></a><br /><br /><br />Went to yellowstone lake and the fishing bridge area where they had a campsite with public showers and a place where I could do my laundry .. finally clean socks and underwear again .. yeah ... Check the snow levels here ....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip0Xtm-yODqh98Z9eAIX-OpyGa8hyphenhyphenWM8nTD4CVkqCEuqy3Gh3dH7IGgBBJ0GxhynlgsG24u8FcnbxbFMybEWI6csWC__Yxiqx5qyia4-XhJVaBOR9QbnaP7WZxNHLX91QTKukINA/s1600/DSC08947.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip0Xtm-yODqh98Z9eAIX-OpyGa8hyphenhyphenWM8nTD4CVkqCEuqy3Gh3dH7IGgBBJ0GxhynlgsG24u8FcnbxbFMybEWI6csWC__Yxiqx5qyia4-XhJVaBOR9QbnaP7WZxNHLX91QTKukINA/s200/DSC08947.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630896816146415906" /></a><br /><br />Made the long drive back when the sun was setting, which was again a nice experience with this smoking surreal landscape gliding by as you make your way driving slowly because of the emerging wildlife at night. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL8X3MGZzYbqdxcXavku7-sSpvpbEcoqL1gpBZ4V9vItf7XfvO0-9vwX6Z771EgLUoY3bhKp5HztcjcAGAdZ-Z7ymqAC7nz-rp_Vm-PAK-j4KRCLNOM7SDS-w7K_ZnhG2y0Vy4QQ/s1600/DSC08990.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL8X3MGZzYbqdxcXavku7-sSpvpbEcoqL1gpBZ4V9vItf7XfvO0-9vwX6Z771EgLUoY3bhKp5HztcjcAGAdZ-Z7ymqAC7nz-rp_Vm-PAK-j4KRCLNOM7SDS-w7K_ZnhG2y0Vy4QQ/s200/DSC08990.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630897485495016802" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidbqevj51txJohtG3yn3T5OrHBCX0iLv_mSTTJcouOfAJyzUQj5_bOP5aSDxxNwx1KS0WkzZYszhdfCtAIAw4XibJu-O4OiwB2GC0xEgWF2z3NpiB70s6LuVV5rKa4Dp6-Bw9GCQ/s1600/DSC08950.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidbqevj51txJohtG3yn3T5OrHBCX0iLv_mSTTJcouOfAJyzUQj5_bOP5aSDxxNwx1KS0WkzZYszhdfCtAIAw4XibJu-O4OiwB2GC0xEgWF2z3NpiB70s6LuVV5rKa4Dp6-Bw9GCQ/s200/DSC08950.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630897478028034738" /></a><br /><br />You can not even think you have seen these parks when you have not experienced a sunset and - or sunrise .. I can easily spend hours before, during and after these daily events if the spot is nice enough and allows me to immerse myself in the "whole" that the inca's call hunabku ..... <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizMJ5pBzRvrlECoxYMqw5IrXncJCYawSW54tQ_Wryi-wwayjdvrDA1eiLffAQxrKdpEa_HDQFPmaL_6wtIH4BjipNukr5XWlpSHMPDZ0x4js-MhOzFJ9XoazNVbtaKDUM8MFAmww/s1600/DSC08874.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizMJ5pBzRvrlECoxYMqw5IrXncJCYawSW54tQ_Wryi-wwayjdvrDA1eiLffAQxrKdpEa_HDQFPmaL_6wtIH4BjipNukr5XWlpSHMPDZ0x4js-MhOzFJ9XoazNVbtaKDUM8MFAmww/s200/DSC08874.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630898238802790786" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />2nd june<br /><br />Woke up all restless, since the road had opened up the day before I had to go and see new grounds I guess, I mean I had done all the hikes one could do in the rooseveld area and wanted to see new stuff. So I made the move from Yellowstone to Grand Teton National Park which lies just underneath yellowstone. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitu_FCfQ3pq_HszTpUA5gOBN4g6MyASB0oR7YTpF9sfe7lioLSnqyzlE4UKRaAN79F-tVEVA-58waKQ8Bn0SLgnaaAw_ddhSUnkEQPL5YUHqgVX78A97DYX91pWRYrnHqyTxD6KQ/s1600/DSC09023.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitu_FCfQ3pq_HszTpUA5gOBN4g6MyASB0oR7YTpF9sfe7lioLSnqyzlE4UKRaAN79F-tVEVA-58waKQ8Bn0SLgnaaAw_ddhSUnkEQPL5YUHqgVX78A97DYX91pWRYrnHqyTxD6KQ/s200/DSC09023.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630898866596547282" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO1oymyku0jZNvt78axk2cyrhH1xZmV46HBH4E2urEzwx2PE6f-gBZRs6ndgSm9BMfCn4dmhl6BvZECIZCuoXa4aWx-MwNPoS5mN-T0ovFzUv_XEqutiUgMlIjTzJme3T0WyKXaQ/s1600/DSC09031.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO1oymyku0jZNvt78axk2cyrhH1xZmV46HBH4E2urEzwx2PE6f-gBZRs6ndgSm9BMfCn4dmhl6BvZECIZCuoXa4aWx-MwNPoS5mN-T0ovFzUv_XEqutiUgMlIjTzJme3T0WyKXaQ/s200/DSC09031.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630898862206349778" /></a><br /><br /><br />Had a marvelous drive with my friends the sun and the clouds ... wow, how they continously made the scenery change dramatically, it was at times hard to not just stop and watch it all go on and on ... Yellowstone Lake was still frozen and looking like a white wonderworld. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwLxEpN684wouVG4YjGoX-JrEoqP9VBM5CFj21vSOWENTLJLAYUGJhTY6aAmc2ZB8YpbbWMiNAroaffyqMkWfnlh-Lwkz_9BOL3EyzAAwQUg8lUMW1WcV3SXJsG1YUlZEYJaG6WQ/s1600/DSC09009.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwLxEpN684wouVG4YjGoX-JrEoqP9VBM5CFj21vSOWENTLJLAYUGJhTY6aAmc2ZB8YpbbWMiNAroaffyqMkWfnlh-Lwkz_9BOL3EyzAAwQUg8lUMW1WcV3SXJsG1YUlZEYJaG6WQ/s200/DSC09009.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630899913132705698" /></a><br /><br />The mighty Tetons are also still covered in snow, but the area around it is blossoming with springfever, the greens are amazing, depending on the time of day, the same place changes a thousand times per hour ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEJ-KgaMDrioTTGCPj11X7QqjQRvJ7PILC57qMv7kQaASuGYA9AC8oepU6u1z45rVwEYGglj1eV4mOQZLvXgAQV535XY0Jm991mBoiX4dk_VenM2ZLubaqrQ49-wvG5rE6jNjW6g/s1600/DSC09043.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEJ-KgaMDrioTTGCPj11X7QqjQRvJ7PILC57qMv7kQaASuGYA9AC8oepU6u1z45rVwEYGglj1eV4mOQZLvXgAQV535XY0Jm991mBoiX4dk_VenM2ZLubaqrQ49-wvG5rE6jNjW6g/s200/DSC09043.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630899917647983026" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTQgnhy30OY3o4z5oMB0QN45gI8FgT1suFhnfVTJ9LWjgJfwoQUDV4LctsI-jjDhaZbgg7vq0-iwzWxEGhHX5q9EuYIR0KbKyAaoB8be-PD0IIKj91rGUoolEO_-XuxklLMoMt0w/s1600/DSC09044.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTQgnhy30OY3o4z5oMB0QN45gI8FgT1suFhnfVTJ9LWjgJfwoQUDV4LctsI-jjDhaZbgg7vq0-iwzWxEGhHX5q9EuYIR0KbKyAaoB8be-PD0IIKj91rGUoolEO_-XuxklLMoMt0w/s200/DSC09044.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630899917087282674" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC4zE7_2fFdsg_tqjlRlVB1zv0N-7Rr5VJLR-9PU1eVhhsCY4MBQdMSViRJPkA1_kaJ2G_hXNSh2gd-4oZ1XboOEXPID2wwEVaHFv3UsdT92B4i0CCRia1Ma4AA3Sx47U2Ny0oRg/s1600/DSC09047.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC4zE7_2fFdsg_tqjlRlVB1zv0N-7Rr5VJLR-9PU1eVhhsCY4MBQdMSViRJPkA1_kaJ2G_hXNSh2gd-4oZ1XboOEXPID2wwEVaHFv3UsdT92B4i0CCRia1Ma4AA3Sx47U2Ny0oRg/s200/DSC09047.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630899923469634770" /></a><br /><br /><br />Drove on to Jackson a real "western town" with the "famous" antler arches <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiItqiX9rhrRfcR47wv8TRdD0WdmL5Lq0-Z_ffbUkss24f8_BvsC1Kv0TGEWe46auUY-1sKcwSXwUPLEOfJ6Gl1o8lig1DJfxigYhc4wuCXasgXj5XRFTbXaSDzEm3cQJi0ij1uUQ/s1600/DSC09118.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiItqiX9rhrRfcR47wv8TRdD0WdmL5Lq0-Z_ffbUkss24f8_BvsC1Kv0TGEWe46auUY-1sKcwSXwUPLEOfJ6Gl1o8lig1DJfxigYhc4wuCXasgXj5XRFTbXaSDzEm3cQJi0ij1uUQ/s200/DSC09118.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630901446456419810" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigAruzR0Ml4F9TpY9ESGQ25TXlj6UVvEhIC1Or0YfloVbBd1tFzLjYlwCFiwlBbNVO7GVPAEi3Hm-pkyJdgeeh4VmKYWOdyq9GcvyEyBp9YnBQoE2gB_dj-0YrUeXE-mqy9nWvjQ/s1600/DSC09117.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigAruzR0Ml4F9TpY9ESGQ25TXlj6UVvEhIC1Or0YfloVbBd1tFzLjYlwCFiwlBbNVO7GVPAEi3Hm-pkyJdgeeh4VmKYWOdyq9GcvyEyBp9YnBQoE2gB_dj-0YrUeXE-mqy9nWvjQ/s200/DSC09117.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630901443009575602" /></a><br /><br />and cowboys for the tourists ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGUiodFvDEOXNj-suF1dpQq9oo3FdZHYdm8z30DOIDQgZY5GVWY4KtYnTJs6kx2OSGYRqrFpL2xwSYedq8vzsW9O7EZ6c6mxEQrOWcT5ldeXVokg9RU6MipCe1wzEOb22lLUlkfw/s1600/DSC09116.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGUiodFvDEOXNj-suF1dpQq9oo3FdZHYdm8z30DOIDQgZY5GVWY4KtYnTJs6kx2OSGYRqrFpL2xwSYedq8vzsW9O7EZ6c6mxEQrOWcT5ldeXVokg9RU6MipCe1wzEOb22lLUlkfw/s200/DSC09116.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630900924338780162" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcDRORRf__XWXpFz1MlPOHEhAJFlX5Mi47NdjJ4z-rlIWfLePDi3CSkipZi2mOFx9SXLCcw__4XPo0bk4YIWWxORLI3F9cKppp5F3aCpyQ2zAOWZiJi665tlnW0POxT5fm3Zz8Yg/s1600/DSC09115.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpLjY4FxTwnHg6AdEe43La2BSwJ1f9c_DKiFpxk8-_a6NOKpODXsxa6GD6BVIi_1kR6cRruS0mU5h3IDtaZ4RCDCV7pizunWgBIXYk0DH45xFb-bGROIR4H5jXuyhsFVlXFFZIhQ/s200/DSC09113.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630900903902552386" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWPfIUFaEvG6fbMByVsE5R7VjhfsxIVvfHQNo5Fzba23DQRlvb9oDLFjc-jo1Q-tI82WNKwGXM_uczB9DVlmYynSE_ft-zPb8-4cGfCsdKCtNpdyy6QAi3a3oJONjUZI5cmx-fMw/s1600/DSC09112.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWPfIUFaEvG6fbMByVsE5R7VjhfsxIVvfHQNo5Fzba23DQRlvb9oDLFjc-jo1Q-tI82WNKwGXM_uczB9DVlmYynSE_ft-zPb8-4cGfCsdKCtNpdyy6QAi3a3oJONjUZI5cmx-fMw/s200/DSC09112.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630900898158629650" /></a><br /><br /><br />And I went to town to see if I could get aa much needed oilchange there, but no, that was impossible as the car was noty know in the exisiting systems .. all sorts of vw models, but not this one .. "need to do that in idaho falls or some other big place sir" .. ok ... I will . .. and then I gave them too a small demo of the bus as they were amazed to see this "spaceship" there with a folding roof ..... Then it was on to fidn a spot for the night outside the park, as these campsites were 25 dollars .. no way was I gonna pay that much being in such an area with loads of "wild spaces" But then as I drove into the national forest area I ound a nice spot, Atharton campsite, <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7G6skxoYiV1YSdeTVMfWokZSCy2Mp97pJuBaUYYzo4dZ0Zl6FFQ6ZEm4TaiVc0As_hACpWtAR1PyW_oNHtEbUt5iNPlgG5O22A9BxR6gL2h1fbupXbiMpD3eUCmtj_dJxMPrwHg/s1600/DSC09051.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7G6skxoYiV1YSdeTVMfWokZSCy2Mp97pJuBaUYYzo4dZ0Zl6FFQ6ZEm4TaiVc0As_hACpWtAR1PyW_oNHtEbUt5iNPlgG5O22A9BxR6gL2h1fbupXbiMpD3eUCmtj_dJxMPrwHg/s200/DSC09051.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630902499255601794" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhELRD4oP9n9GGavrkIwFII0h_j7t69uHwNpNOkB2wjHTRvoIVTuwvhmJWJoZo_1hXd1NnZt2V3YF8LObTDh6dmfibXkbGbQXBRJJeUg_xT8h2XxAthVoNa6IKqzCvdB5ndQMZHTQ/s1600/DSC09050.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhELRD4oP9n9GGavrkIwFII0h_j7t69uHwNpNOkB2wjHTRvoIVTuwvhmJWJoZo_1hXd1NnZt2V3YF8LObTDh6dmfibXkbGbQXBRJJeUg_xT8h2XxAthVoNa6IKqzCvdB5ndQMZHTQ/s200/DSC09050.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630902497767959698" /></a><br /><br />outside a place called Kelly ( I happen to like the colour Kelly Green), and that is just outside the national park boundary, also it is national forest, making it again a cheap night as I get 50% discount with my NP pass. So for 6 dollars I get a room with a view, literally. No need to look on for a free spot in the forest when you have a place like this to make "yours" I parked the van so that I had the lake and the towering peaks in sight trough the backwindow, there were loads of clouds continously shifting the shadows and lit up parts, it was hard to stop watching and make diner.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCZbdgl6MG6JFvhoaF8Rd5NrKmKwz-LYEbN5ZDISyBykdviS2hyLy0zYBNkuaDUWKSHgFrdl1Mf0Bw1i2nItR___SRO7wcAU2fbRQ9jGPSFqMoqRBV0n0Xvu4Nx0SA3AaFLz50tw/s1600/DSC09053.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCZbdgl6MG6JFvhoaF8Rd5NrKmKwz-LYEbN5ZDISyBykdviS2hyLy0zYBNkuaDUWKSHgFrdl1Mf0Bw1i2nItR___SRO7wcAU2fbRQ9jGPSFqMoqRBV0n0Xvu4Nx0SA3AaFLz50tw/s200/DSC09053.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630903448491497202" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJOheygZh-QxolmsEceJnV7EvX1_Lb89AoNbh0RETn2wQvovmpx6XYSykyNcakbWt4Xxh-OkepQf35_0kEwoj4k2lZmJCuL3DPl90QHEdPuI5Yo0I-N-0R9L5Brq8-Qj0hSgMgeQ/s1600/DSC09057.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJOheygZh-QxolmsEceJnV7EvX1_Lb89AoNbh0RETn2wQvovmpx6XYSykyNcakbWt4Xxh-OkepQf35_0kEwoj4k2lZmJCuL3DPl90QHEdPuI5Yo0I-N-0R9L5Brq8-Qj0hSgMgeQ/s200/DSC09057.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630903443131811378" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZNqTJNotlMcXPeLq2JxLXaNmOp2kOimEVMNn0Y51fVs3l_YeT4WIboJ5GJhzW8z6vLXq3bMg0GOV9T3B28Kh5z6whvG1DPGNjT67xgTe1ixbVCCM0MUf56wYygRp9rrf1yc_-LQ/s1600/DSC09091.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZNqTJNotlMcXPeLq2JxLXaNmOp2kOimEVMNn0Y51fVs3l_YeT4WIboJ5GJhzW8z6vLXq3bMg0GOV9T3B28Kh5z6whvG1DPGNjT67xgTe1ixbVCCM0MUf56wYygRp9rrf1yc_-LQ/s200/DSC09091.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630903439296731570" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />3rd june<br /><br />And another amazing morning, with the sun hitting the tetons from far away, what a sight, and I could not even see the "core" of the mountain range that came in sight as I turned the corner ... . <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIm0z0KzojZ7VbdfC5AHy0KrGNN09z8YMdwhF2cZrWpTVWMpnK-kPlAUwlUlqmSG_48-BRhQNO2eNAPJf1hmgMtJ4s73hy2asUtCnZ8oyEZ-rR6joFol3sRSur8RpKIDw-tQSdkA/s1600/DSC09101.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIm0z0KzojZ7VbdfC5AHy0KrGNN09z8YMdwhF2cZrWpTVWMpnK-kPlAUwlUlqmSG_48-BRhQNO2eNAPJf1hmgMtJ4s73hy2asUtCnZ8oyEZ-rR6joFol3sRSur8RpKIDw-tQSdkA/s200/DSC09101.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630904333411309458" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJg9LsG6h4_y5lRs4fML7oAgXyA4-JvqBfoaCVUeFFPtkmgb6sR_a5SDLVqHe0DKytcDsKHHM2WBpXfPP__NCaKc8q28kk-Ng6LvBlkB542t9nRFiM7IXMRakf3VaARtEod4PdVw/s1600/DSC09103.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJg9LsG6h4_y5lRs4fML7oAgXyA4-JvqBfoaCVUeFFPtkmgb6sR_a5SDLVqHe0DKytcDsKHHM2WBpXfPP__NCaKc8q28kk-Ng6LvBlkB542t9nRFiM7IXMRakf3VaARtEod4PdVw/s200/DSC09103.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630904325669613250" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWE5fPdR-xywHRR-PBBBQgTFybrH02a_qcKqIrQxR3h4uIBBNZpU_zK1ZHQh6N6FqSrWkqMxocud-sGpHDgfV3kmJmiQMksOUrSFLjGjjK-cogHM-5nzKn93gXecwbSH7MQvk3CQ/s1600/DSC09085.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWE5fPdR-xywHRR-PBBBQgTFybrH02a_qcKqIrQxR3h4uIBBNZpU_zK1ZHQh6N6FqSrWkqMxocud-sGpHDgfV3kmJmiQMksOUrSFLjGjjK-cogHM-5nzKn93gXecwbSH7MQvk3CQ/s200/DSC09085.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630904323344801282" /></a><br /><br /><br />went to the ranger station / visitor centre for some info about the trails. The station was a great place, as was the case for all of the national parks so far ... it had a cool exhibition about the region and even free wifi to do some communicating with the outside world. So I did some much needed emails and equipped with some trail info and maps and a "glow in the dark" stargaze map i left the ranger station .... ha ha ready for the night skies later that day ... then I took off on the hike to the two lakes at the foot of the tetons, the hike was supposed to be passing some patches of snow but it was eventually leading me into deep snow with patches of green so to say, and later even the green patches disappeared completely. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ulpDE_0XgHzmqxD-N8SuYOc2QL_0_dBIKNok1L5b5bJ5CDENrHnDQRxZ0lBWiAI0lM75VPt8U2puj5imxfVGU8M2nmXgoLU3U8rn8UGEmUEAQGtbNqcotO7KBZ4kjcYzHo3IHw/s1600/DSC09142.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ulpDE_0XgHzmqxD-N8SuYOc2QL_0_dBIKNok1L5b5bJ5CDENrHnDQRxZ0lBWiAI0lM75VPt8U2puj5imxfVGU8M2nmXgoLU3U8rn8UGEmUEAQGtbNqcotO7KBZ4kjcYzHo3IHw/s200/DSC09142.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630905039624403522" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP7eIZ-IZBawC3I6iHmxsAvKfMY1dWI9_jUDzBjWKNha_b2ZD2LN_WkirjshgAhhI9XMyjRiH15bcRG8SwA4YoB-s-OdGweu-7-YvO_G0YxDNNMG9YsO_uJ-fqTXm4t7KlKl06PQ/s1600/DSC09135.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP7eIZ-IZBawC3I6iHmxsAvKfMY1dWI9_jUDzBjWKNha_b2ZD2LN_WkirjshgAhhI9XMyjRiH15bcRG8SwA4YoB-s-OdGweu-7-YvO_G0YxDNNMG9YsO_uJ-fqTXm4t7KlKl06PQ/s200/DSC09135.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630905040272133218" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Luckily you could stay on top of the snow for most of the time , and occasionally you sunk in, but never with two feet so it was ok, in the end it did make my feet soaking wet, even with my goretex hiking boots on as the snow was dropping in my boots from above .. mmmm .. no use for the goretex here ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlYTvsKkfXStiQhJ0oV1_sJbPY800FDIc_YMlr-769ZXYtVQI_ASeCtE4HK-ebEqXGWYsWqv0WYrO0BNJSGIUbLW5DSUarQjOo_EvrIutUt24rkg8S4ukbJyz95hHAFpfztBFWwQ/s1600/DSC09175.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlYTvsKkfXStiQhJ0oV1_sJbPY800FDIc_YMlr-769ZXYtVQI_ASeCtE4HK-ebEqXGWYsWqv0WYrO0BNJSGIUbLW5DSUarQjOo_EvrIutUt24rkg8S4ukbJyz95hHAFpfztBFWwQ/s200/DSC09175.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630905896244893554" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivL0az4RRI4PSwIOmxyDp61lZdMFnKqPksA_owJUPr7phCk3WpzALTQs5ajlmysDesXFsKQTxmQ-Bo6Ksvo9FiEREqgpOoLw289ruh5QQfhTY2MJQdppNewAA12Wb8xrwNSdXFEw/s1600/DSC09158.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivL0az4RRI4PSwIOmxyDp61lZdMFnKqPksA_owJUPr7phCk3WpzALTQs5ajlmysDesXFsKQTxmQ-Bo6Ksvo9FiEREqgpOoLw289ruh5QQfhTY2MJQdppNewAA12Wb8xrwNSdXFEw/s200/DSC09158.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630905888319410018" /></a><br /><br /><br />At the second lake I met a guy called Lee, who was on the road too and it turned out we had a similar preference for certain books (especially the beatniks) we swapped books, talked loads and exchanged travel stories .. decided to have dinner together, which was nice, I had my first dinner guest in the bus after eating all by myself all the time (the picture would have been perfect had he been a she and single ..) After dinner and a good cup of coffee we parted ways and I went to find a spot for the night. I camped at a free parking space between kelly and the official campsite <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsFDfXQnxVfqxS-_Rm0bPeAP0s0QRa-pDAz3F7SLJtFhbvoEHYyjeTusRfWraJvW6zyavCaEW_-msLbIVgk0gm2cFDTEau7AhyphenhyphenvqX8V4LhcFzf8szGZw1KaovfRI02Y_3gxqM2ig/s1600/DSC09183.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsFDfXQnxVfqxS-_Rm0bPeAP0s0QRa-pDAz3F7SLJtFhbvoEHYyjeTusRfWraJvW6zyavCaEW_-msLbIVgk0gm2cFDTEau7AhyphenhyphenvqX8V4LhcFzf8szGZw1KaovfRI02Y_3gxqM2ig/s200/DSC09183.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630906639202400050" /></a><br /><br /><br />I guess it serves as an overflow for the busy summer as it also had a restroom (when the official campsites are full they need to place the people somewhere I guess... but they dont like you to go there when there is still place at the campsites that want revenue .. ha ha .. I prefer the free stuff ... ) it was ideal.<br /><br /><br /><br />4th june<br /><br />Today it was time to leave the Tetons and head west again, but not after doing a final hike in an area with less snow .. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtBx3zFmU9F_5kVzTBoXmYHngmVoRuXpUtibJuCvHzcHE-o4_NAXjFqTsdUma7-hbUD3tyCi4YxKAm0kmNR3sdUhJdQk08OQNAKsxFYj4PEyTyHHXHSNitM6HkWLneAU1KHZbVWg/s1600/DSC09204.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtBx3zFmU9F_5kVzTBoXmYHngmVoRuXpUtibJuCvHzcHE-o4_NAXjFqTsdUma7-hbUD3tyCi4YxKAm0kmNR3sdUhJdQk08OQNAKsxFYj4PEyTyHHXHSNitM6HkWLneAU1KHZbVWg/s200/DSC09204.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630907451828974690" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQsAggN5dLCJ8kj_tOT5bOQxQl9HT6FffZnpYhemV_fjE7SKY2TO8g0yStyLPIiYG0Tqbns_pcO8OEvxB7L34tLrPxZUasvHLSQ6l_aNwokh2PNkPI7Br_n4Qfdd1TCZk55XZrtw/s1600/DSC09212.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQsAggN5dLCJ8kj_tOT5bOQxQl9HT6FffZnpYhemV_fjE7SKY2TO8g0yStyLPIiYG0Tqbns_pcO8OEvxB7L34tLrPxZUasvHLSQ6l_aNwokh2PNkPI7Br_n4Qfdd1TCZk55XZrtw/s200/DSC09212.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630907450044564946" /></a><br /><br />when I spotted this squirrel I managed to get real close, and when some people passed they looked curiously but they did not see what I was seeing and I was not gonna tell them cause I did not want to chase this amazing creature away .. watched it for a good 20 minutes ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0JLq42p8MxF_dAcmNM0B-eG76TVJeq4rvbUdMShBI8tlmiFnkm9csjY4DD7iW7mIOc10GvUP9DsEkN9pxBU_bAhzk-333AgyP1K5CamuJ0lU0ymHY0WUSZaLU2A9Ikxy7nRhDnw/s1600/DSC09230.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0JLq42p8MxF_dAcmNM0B-eG76TVJeq4rvbUdMShBI8tlmiFnkm9csjY4DD7iW7mIOc10GvUP9DsEkN9pxBU_bAhzk-333AgyP1K5CamuJ0lU0ymHY0WUSZaLU2A9Ikxy7nRhDnw/s200/DSC09230.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630907445275693538" /></a><br /><br />Later when I left to head west again, I drove for hours, and after a while the huge open land I passed trough felt strange, and I guess I now know why, this piece of land has the most nuclear power plants in the world. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqLPSmDP7p_SnM4oO-HAErZxrqKBgbT45edeP8dr1Uu_XjjHbAcsPAsgA1aq4USXWSYxMjbVY3NiW6E0hYmoav5can2R7vjIq0gjxwhCxnZ8PJvU7Mvnv5nE_T5YvUDCfyGPRlkw/s1600/DSC09245.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7l2RgT9H4LfkrhBrLCwon6diZ-vvaIfuy-H_j1dk6ifrTeG5O9IlC5k__3B1AA9swUZgiKNsAe1gtQD9QgYEPPMwx2Znh8pUN4Y23Ni3tbxDCPzU-h9s0n7PkeTKylS6X1yaWNQ/s200/DSC09247.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630908412407740882" /></a><br /><br /><br />All underground ... there even was a museum close to a place called Arco, which was the first place on earth to be lit up with nuclear energy ... but I arrived too late for the museum .. ah well ... in Arco I spotted some american football going on, watched for a while and then asked some local policemen if they knew of a place to park for the night. They refered me to this dirt road going up into the hills right before you go uphill into the craters of the moon monument ... So, that is where I went, little did I know that the road would be so long .. but hey, once you pass a certain number of miles into the spot spotting .. I tend to go on ... I wont settle for a 2nd choice place when there might be this awesome spot just a little further ahead ... its all part of the adventure ... and boy did I find another amazing "bedroom" It was about 2 miles from craters of the moon, and in the end it was a cool 20km drive away from the main road .... It was on top of a mountain with an amazing view, so the madness of the long drive on the dirt road got rewarded ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPa5JvpHvptkl_8tGTtnJkg3xhd-zM27o0V5DNxlg0PDeVBrr5EQ5DQ3HV0kVw_uaaEGCauVre7JB9hJmimsb2K_GzoqO0ZhnRHsmbwyKNH1_O-EbTpCkTyHrlfHiaQP26ldaNFQ/s1600/DSC09260.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPa5JvpHvptkl_8tGTtnJkg3xhd-zM27o0V5DNxlg0PDeVBrr5EQ5DQ3HV0kVw_uaaEGCauVre7JB9hJmimsb2K_GzoqO0ZhnRHsmbwyKNH1_O-EbTpCkTyHrlfHiaQP26ldaNFQ/s200/DSC09260.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630909376855011714" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLkWRt0NIycQLiLd6KevP1119RixO416nqxArLNvUmZnqlkyTc_aCsWY9o9cxmGSLBEpDre-Ca08lCyd6wmKAWQp2k9MkWpau6DTjpEzp38EHsvpq2CcO81bTVj4KUgaQd7eO4Xw/s1600/DSC09264.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLkWRt0NIycQLiLd6KevP1119RixO416nqxArLNvUmZnqlkyTc_aCsWY9o9cxmGSLBEpDre-Ca08lCyd6wmKAWQp2k9MkWpau6DTjpEzp38EHsvpq2CcO81bTVj4KUgaQd7eO4Xw/s200/DSC09264.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630909374373606466" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC2xY0fir-W_pyXflPu7gVwEa7_mjFlNWaCe-VjpkJR1HhzTNJ74nk0L_1oVKuUpvBT-gm8r514V54rKrsipw6gLxG61XK-ol-Ap8KPGcgpk6GXD3Q_RT6hsTRbYUhalf6_7V57w/s1600/DSC09269.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC2xY0fir-W_pyXflPu7gVwEa7_mjFlNWaCe-VjpkJR1HhzTNJ74nk0L_1oVKuUpvBT-gm8r514V54rKrsipw6gLxG61XK-ol-Ap8KPGcgpk6GXD3Q_RT6hsTRbYUhalf6_7V57w/s200/DSC09269.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630909367693052050" /></a><br /><br />5th june<br /><br />Woke up at first light of the sun hitting the car, after 4 hrs of sleep again, man ... how will I ever sleep 9 hrs in a row ... I guess not .. and actually it does not matter, feel great ... did loads of music refreshment yesterday. I finally bought some empty cd's to fill up with mp3's as the ipods are nice but so much work to update and change, stupid Itunes ... I hate that program ... But the music system in the car only knows how to communicate with specific models of the ipod series, so we have three old ipods , the 4gig and 6gig Ipod mini models that do the trick ... Anyway, made sure I was gonna be able to listen to some cocorosie, radiohead, deus and more non u2 music ... No I am not getting fed up with u2, no worries, but I needed fresh input for these long strips of highway that I am about to conquer along my way to Oakland. First thing today was more blog updating .. want to upload my first weeks travelstories today so ... need to make sure it is ready before it makes me restless, we cant have that on the road, only if it is to head further into the unknown, but not from unsorted business .. so to say ... so I am typing this in the middle of nowhere, on top of a hill, with the sun starting to colour the surroudings in nice green and yellows ... <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56lEWmcYcOj9F77YLus6heigZJ_JNsK8IDa-oKy-Mt9sEOVaBALnsntg6h4xV6PJox0RPFtFed_nnGLUCXF3EyFbGDlgYn0G7Jn3is0Fc7SwZhXQ0lPGIXbuhwi11keUzMgMAIQ/s1600/DSC09259.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56lEWmcYcOj9F77YLus6heigZJ_JNsK8IDa-oKy-Mt9sEOVaBALnsntg6h4xV6PJox0RPFtFed_nnGLUCXF3EyFbGDlgYn0G7Jn3is0Fc7SwZhXQ0lPGIXbuhwi11keUzMgMAIQ/s200/DSC09259.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630909383063160882" /></a><br /><br /><br />it is gonna be another beautiful day, on to the craters of the moon national monument. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYxBtMc5N12bD7KYy71LRvZDylZelZsOP7RJCASi8jhKS7J7AwdPNzRtql7PpsyB0dfUFEX7waUKPd12CVnhoyjZlohsQdyD0KsH66mcJpKndsxYpfGvT1H3O182cT40QrZjvSeA/s1600/DSC09297.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYxBtMc5N12bD7KYy71LRvZDylZelZsOP7RJCASi8jhKS7J7AwdPNzRtql7PpsyB0dfUFEX7waUKPd12CVnhoyjZlohsQdyD0KsH66mcJpKndsxYpfGvT1H3O182cT40QrZjvSeA/s200/DSC09297.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630909365948544850" /></a><br /><br /><br />The craters were nice but after having been to the vulcanic islands at the Galapagos Islands earlier this year, this was a bit so so ... but hey .. enjoyable never the less .. the caves were cool, and made this awesome picture of a bird with blue wings, leaving its nest .... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAa1vBTE5KBPxTlDOlspF0IbnJt0fCZCOTlVS9jATnOtz7FyFoZJi9He-sEy9QFyNkVvRnZe8bV5NYD33hOr35J4LMsmzv6SSKl7A2N2U5OmJvf7fvAn3w4M1bfBbn9a5fKu9IuA/s1600/birdie.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAa1vBTE5KBPxTlDOlspF0IbnJt0fCZCOTlVS9jATnOtz7FyFoZJi9He-sEy9QFyNkVvRnZe8bV5NYD33hOr35J4LMsmzv6SSKl7A2N2U5OmJvf7fvAn3w4M1bfBbn9a5fKu9IuA/s200/birdie.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630910159063136226" /></a><br /><br />Struggled with changing clocks ... drove into Nevada .. and slept somewhere along the way at a quiet area of a semi disused truckstop .. perfect for tonight in between two "days made for eating miles"<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtsRokp9laklxZb6VxDCI_S2RDXUWBpSzT6NBLUVHrdyq4NRSDIYSZEE7rgCe6LbGOa_dE8_hLTxh6uiy4ntf7UjraVI0dlbJHD0B1q4qXcj1Ys97Inu7voEOzLzdPG-dHP6tVfA/s1600/DSC09431.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7t_-kdFNBc7ALYoW5VQt7KX4WWiG-TNAgMVedFgxFCg249Gf2Vk0Gs9maQxPpUxn3CyUq-Zywh6D_rDw7mUZ_LC39lULbGhn22nVqRwQ2SK22ZzUlV1la7AUPyGBk_tBFzU6rbQ/s200/DSC09386.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630911618472586050" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />6th June<br /><br />Finally found some place where I could do the much needed oil change, an official vw garage in Reno, on my way to Oakland where U2 was gonna play the next day. And at this garage too I had to give the guys a demo of the car, all the sales guys and mechanics came out for that ha ha .. it remains a miracle for them, the popup roof, the mieage, the chairs and the table hidden away ... what ? 30liter watertank, heater, airco AND 4 motion ? Had some taco bell after that, nice and easy, popped into the goodwill store and found a great book about the national parks for 2 dollars, it seems my antenna for these things still works ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4fDTS3FCJDE4nLMXwHiGA1_Y9ue7GECZ8jllIA__CwF94PmtAyvhdhClzqeEa8bf8vPTR9YsXJHfFxgDmIn9HOtnTUZ3KrUsyhXVzQ5__dHFiP3qGwA5pkj5etymvj_QbHEJ57g/s1600/DSC09450.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4fDTS3FCJDE4nLMXwHiGA1_Y9ue7GECZ8jllIA__CwF94PmtAyvhdhClzqeEa8bf8vPTR9YsXJHfFxgDmIn9HOtnTUZ3KrUsyhXVzQ5__dHFiP3qGwA5pkj5etymvj_QbHEJ57g/s200/DSC09450.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630912447890323234" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Peiiw889xxiP0dyCOS5AsEK-ZnhejeoDVZOOPG05tEpMGX68DC2er0s0WlpLeqXmPNui_ilx_8jUZpWmVi6jFCmE1fOhTSzd91amSpb-9Q5uPj9CBZMcgR3Yx9cR1q9SuZYExA/s1600/DSC09451.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Peiiw889xxiP0dyCOS5AsEK-ZnhejeoDVZOOPG05tEpMGX68DC2er0s0WlpLeqXmPNui_ilx_8jUZpWmVi6jFCmE1fOhTSzd91amSpb-9Q5uPj9CBZMcgR3Yx9cR1q9SuZYExA/s200/DSC09451.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630912444046491042" /></a><br /><br /><br />On to Oakland, driving trough real desert .... which gave me amazing colours again .. It was strange to realise that it had been exactly one month ago since I had left San Fransisco and here I was, heading back to that place after having seen so many amazing things and having traveled 8000km ... the first part was originally gonna be much smaller going from san fransisco to reno to lassen volcanic park (inlands as opposed to the coast) and then on to yellowstone and back to oakland ... instead I decided to follow the coast and and go all the way to seattle .. I am glad I did !<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeoaTuwVdGK58pzXNwhIb3C0__Z-LqqGxMFA_F2R319WXegUFxoAU5V-L8SfNPUA9fFoNu2DIEwmDoW1GHonuJFhGzYfTHKI0JCDfs1AiRBkIktMHdov78QjDX2k_uA50LtR2_5Q/s1600/DSC09475.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeoaTuwVdGK58pzXNwhIb3C0__Z-LqqGxMFA_F2R319WXegUFxoAU5V-L8SfNPUA9fFoNu2DIEwmDoW1GHonuJFhGzYfTHKI0JCDfs1AiRBkIktMHdov78QjDX2k_uA50LtR2_5Q/s200/DSC09475.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630914358134335442" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />I arrived in Sausalito a quarter before 8pm which was just in time to see Nick and Fer (from south america) Fer had actually traveled together to Oakland with Arlette, a girl that I swapped tickets with last year in Amsterdam .. strange small world .. They were leaving at 8 that night to go to the line for the concert the next day .. they had started the line a day earlier so they had somewhere to go ... not me ... I am done with that lining up thing ... mad stress and people around you that dont sleep for days and are not very enjoyable after hours spend wating (ok not everyone, but most of them ... mmm ) ... not eating enough, not drinking enough ... ah well .... everyone does what they want to do ... I guess .... Nick insisted that I'd make use of his place when they were gone, so I did<br /><br />I treated myself to a nice chinese dinner from a great place down the road, spotted the "usa-canada model of the vw transporter ... by far not as nice as the california model ..) <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwrM1WqxXgpaTsSCatTv2BiBEjDI5opzHRnPHxaJisdQ2utq0Ur-39LyUGgVQlcTFwjBO96yt6ERXkEgAq2AmhOYxE7Kl8eR-RL0E7HPuHgZ0VPAJkfNaTzbEWzN7vKig3p4DdLw/s1600/DSC09462.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwrM1WqxXgpaTsSCatTv2BiBEjDI5opzHRnPHxaJisdQ2utq0Ur-39LyUGgVQlcTFwjBO96yt6ERXkEgAq2AmhOYxE7Kl8eR-RL0E7HPuHgZ0VPAJkfNaTzbEWzN7vKig3p4DdLw/s200/DSC09462.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630913691148309586" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0_XegG93y9HROgLp_kZVVJJbWGYn4vjeFQhQStFWLEGiWSlaKEIW5KAvSzqKweAS2N2elqQBdA735dy6ilGTf3Td0bp0UNDGq757vh5-1evoUmCewHYGAgHXY4s60_jleJhlpDA/s1600/DSC09464.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0_XegG93y9HROgLp_kZVVJJbWGYn4vjeFQhQStFWLEGiWSlaKEIW5KAvSzqKweAS2N2elqQBdA735dy6ilGTf3Td0bp0UNDGq757vh5-1evoUmCewHYGAgHXY4s60_jleJhlpDA/s200/DSC09464.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630913690987810466" /></a><br /><br /><br />watched some telly after I figured out how to work all the remotes .. and even had a relaxing shower. Did not take up his offer to take the red mustang for a spin ... although I was tempted ... ha ha .. Then I went off to the harbour again, the same spot I used for the first night, one month ago ... There were more guests on their way from far away (Ireland and England) but these guys were driving down from Seattle and they were not to arrive untill after midnight, and that was too late for me ... I went to my little safe haven ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ITjOTZh8Nh0mBh-_0pNNxDpVWoNuircxCnWzkV_OQ3RXwzygVunMk7i52cIhifAgxfssNZU3fQZoEPoUwJCHV587i6CSn9-ddKNlhFZJwPNZq1EheCWPotfvsYufJGAl_aVTrA/s1600/DSC09470.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ITjOTZh8Nh0mBh-_0pNNxDpVWoNuircxCnWzkV_OQ3RXwzygVunMk7i52cIhifAgxfssNZU3fQZoEPoUwJCHV587i6CSn9-ddKNlhFZJwPNZq1EheCWPotfvsYufJGAl_aVTrA/s200/DSC09470.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630912972328273458" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhje8KlnWwwbaDcI1q3gybTiVeSmiGV9DY3pReGhwrFGodBXM4boKv7rcA0TTpsFcHlmEBDrEv3fdWXXeIQZrGW2nL-P0g_EZOsreECZ19zhx6VJMy1ZH2YPr9o81SzzDc4LMZ16Q/s1600/DSC09471.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhje8KlnWwwbaDcI1q3gybTiVeSmiGV9DY3pReGhwrFGodBXM4boKv7rcA0TTpsFcHlmEBDrEv3fdWXXeIQZrGW2nL-P0g_EZOsreECZ19zhx6VJMy1ZH2YPr9o81SzzDc4LMZ16Q/s200/DSC09471.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630912967193834498" /></a>Paul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-25769240013560564552011-07-01T02:01:00.037+02:002011-07-03T19:57:09.275+02:00on the road 2011 usa - heading east - week 4on my way to chicago as I type this "intro" ... it has been amazing to travel trough the westcoast - both north and south ... the national parks are insanely beautiful and demand more time in the coming years .... scotland has got a rival ... utah .... as they say here ... : Utah Rocks !!! <br /><br />but back to idaho and wyoming .... here is week 4 ..... <br /><br /><br />24th may <br /><br />On the way to yellowstone I visited the Lewis & Clark Caverns, wow ... totally worth the money and time .. 10 dollars for a 2,5 hour trip trough wonderland down below .... great stuff ... A bit tricky that the explorers Lewis & Clark themselves never set foot in these caves but hey .. it atracts the tourists huh ... <br />and they are amazing caves ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_DWpsMQeR2WMzFNisdHMLbu37qWk13WTfUNsO-_THQJ1Y7-4bg6Gj7W5t8jvUyhuEGoNBelKKa0y-PpCBup2574eHaWlzZVkvr1oJkAdrdKG74FDZZOyTHLTpMnnrtqY_RhQAXw/s1600/DSC07518.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_DWpsMQeR2WMzFNisdHMLbu37qWk13WTfUNsO-_THQJ1Y7-4bg6Gj7W5t8jvUyhuEGoNBelKKa0y-PpCBup2574eHaWlzZVkvr1oJkAdrdKG74FDZZOyTHLTpMnnrtqY_RhQAXw/s200/DSC07518.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624170585615745586" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrWB6O9nCkFXkY9WVbA-QbXh7pM3_W6tkdPWn6sYUCxVCILlMMEza33eQ1SSyhRB8WWZR7fiSjnO32WNK4OvXPDrU3rQ_ItO0_knInTfcaKNHwDNYkM944e7DeDOBFlQuGfwhXtg/s1600/DSC07478.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrWB6O9nCkFXkY9WVbA-QbXh7pM3_W6tkdPWn6sYUCxVCILlMMEza33eQ1SSyhRB8WWZR7fiSjnO32WNK4OvXPDrU3rQ_ItO0_knInTfcaKNHwDNYkM944e7DeDOBFlQuGfwhXtg/s200/DSC07478.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624170582158336178" /></a><br /><br />When I went for some info about he area and options to spend the night, the ranger from the park told me about a free campsite that even had a natural hotpot ... it turned out to be a bit of a drive .. ha ha .. he did not exagerate at all when he had said it was a dirt road leading to the campsite .. but if he had told me about the mud along the way, I might not have gone all that way at all. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM48CDhSQ7GeyeYKxCRZYCF2uJjUjL27-rguMEZ2qg3fOvVt-8yfUhbrMk9Lws2H9fgP9ZcB-LpgDSmYhYHvCQnDe1zZZ2eww8BidAbgmUsdsjoDmCmNuN68bvxBXyXxNFQx7-Gg/s1600/DSC07542.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM48CDhSQ7GeyeYKxCRZYCF2uJjUjL27-rguMEZ2qg3fOvVt-8yfUhbrMk9Lws2H9fgP9ZcB-LpgDSmYhYHvCQnDe1zZZ2eww8BidAbgmUsdsjoDmCmNuN68bvxBXyXxNFQx7-Gg/s200/DSC07542.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625156620654882434" /></a><br /><br />But boy was I glad I did .... and glad I had this great 4-motion vehicle with wintertires .. it was gonna get me anywhere ... I just thought that if there was gonna be more rain, I would probably have to spend some more time at that far away campsite, which would not be a problem at all .... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdYRO1zk4kmR85D20cr8Wq7ezyMtexXZqB-kP6KjRCuCV_CneATdfnJpXcf8dZ7NVj4utfiG2eYD7VUT98BDyequqxIIMKKkRR0Dpk4ROSpw8_wbKmg_ewdQ5C2wHdn3oX4usWsw/s1600/DSC07548.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdYRO1zk4kmR85D20cr8Wq7ezyMtexXZqB-kP6KjRCuCV_CneATdfnJpXcf8dZ7NVj4utfiG2eYD7VUT98BDyequqxIIMKKkRR0Dpk4ROSpw8_wbKmg_ewdQ5C2wHdn3oX4usWsw/s200/DSC07548.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625156650687397362" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6pqISqRMqxlIPMDFprYk2DPoCP5jSqzAeuU9C-tBonp9lDYh7-OJVOXASFRhyVtHZg9JeWGCRzyCou0pJZkZkOskAa1EGIGsd7z-u4lNHOqVR0g85xkpuf_WUzWjk3rZahdGnCA/s1600/DSC07551.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6pqISqRMqxlIPMDFprYk2DPoCP5jSqzAeuU9C-tBonp9lDYh7-OJVOXASFRhyVtHZg9JeWGCRzyCou0pJZkZkOskAa1EGIGsd7z-u4lNHOqVR0g85xkpuf_WUzWjk3rZahdGnCA/s200/DSC07551.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625156624857689666" /></a><br /><br />The campsite was actually totally deserted, small spots of snow were left in shadowy places, it was really perfect with a small river and peace .... <br /><br /><br /><br />25th may <br /><br />In the morning I went to the hotpot first before I made my way to yellowstone .... wow .... the tub was really like a small hot tub, without the bubbles but with hot water coming from deep below the ground, the place was properly set up with a drainage pipe and a small terrace made of wood so you could put your clothes there and get in .. yep .. bud naked .. and then enjoy this amazing view of the surrounding mountains with the snowcapped peaks .. unforgettable ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjauB2M7GGSvgyxgv5BEnY85CudwRzPakt02GHOUX32E_lvytJi7n0OR2yNbFEaD_AL-2Qa8M9Mry_SAsQtjs4J-5EGV203E0xwrjXNaLEkA3ItV-QInTmslMBJAGs7RVpiN1YY6w/s1600/DSC07581.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjauB2M7GGSvgyxgv5BEnY85CudwRzPakt02GHOUX32E_lvytJi7n0OR2yNbFEaD_AL-2Qa8M9Mry_SAsQtjs4J-5EGV203E0xwrjXNaLEkA3ItV-QInTmslMBJAGs7RVpiN1YY6w/s200/DSC07581.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625159074006229938" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1JHdEOnIZUl4bbmfAs3QsFvQ0tqY4CpEMwmZfixgaf7EK1wZuMoSyapWEfSM9exMuoqlHjPeT6MQghmYa1xqjDl66rP8q_n5mn2PjEZfUziTRPkIi2rIpnZDsmV01CrQ3Ictz9Q/s1600/DSC07575.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1JHdEOnIZUl4bbmfAs3QsFvQ0tqY4CpEMwmZfixgaf7EK1wZuMoSyapWEfSM9exMuoqlHjPeT6MQghmYa1xqjDl66rP8q_n5mn2PjEZfUziTRPkIi2rIpnZDsmV01CrQ3Ictz9Q/s200/DSC07575.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625159069198516210" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtoP-g10BFevud6todGvzKSmrzC2SxY40bZuGhbPZbAd8wIqd_0PffU102Nt5W71pZiCfFYTh8RXJa7_ZPswF-o53Bdf1B04d5X-DPNINQZ5noiyr4ljq52RNsA5AmSP0Tpu2E0A/s1600/DSC07554.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtoP-g10BFevud6todGvzKSmrzC2SxY40bZuGhbPZbAd8wIqd_0PffU102Nt5W71pZiCfFYTh8RXJa7_ZPswF-o53Bdf1B04d5X-DPNINQZ5noiyr4ljq52RNsA5AmSP0Tpu2E0A/s200/DSC07554.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625159057485144722" /></a><br /><br /><br />Then it was time to head down, but not before the ranger very subtly asked me for some supplies I might have for him .. ha ha .. the guy hardly made it off the site and could do with some fresh vegetables or beer . ... I did not mind passing him some, so I left him a happy chappy and went on my way, the road had dried up quite well so the return trip went a lot faster ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb9juEhhQGRF6V41DSBEqYnCk6JAVPIzEGOvzJxu-6eRyTdwJqpuQwblpykyWXRXk0ioVfkuTLrHehbn_rPvq0Vpgds7Rjd0psHOiAmHHeTGI6ts6NX_RxSX9h6DyTfHl8oF8UyQ/s1600/DSC07598.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb9juEhhQGRF6V41DSBEqYnCk6JAVPIzEGOvzJxu-6eRyTdwJqpuQwblpykyWXRXk0ioVfkuTLrHehbn_rPvq0Vpgds7Rjd0psHOiAmHHeTGI6ts6NX_RxSX9h6DyTfHl8oF8UyQ/s200/DSC07598.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625159524267495906" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />And then, finally, I made my way to the west entrance of yellowstone national park ... yes ... <br /><br />Imagine a big national park, surrounded by mountains covered in snow, the roads inside the park consist of a figure 8 so basically there are two loops that lead you around the park and each loop is about 140 km long so you can see its a huge park ... The park can be entered from 4 sides but this time of year the east entrance is only accessible between12 midnight till 8am as there is too much snow up there and they want it to be frozen solid when you pass trough there as there is a risk off avalanches during the day. <br /><br />I entered trough the west entrance (lower altitude and no snow there) and stayed in the lower loop for the first day, saw amazing landscapes full of steam and smelly sites ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2i9SEm0-vXS5iBk10Y4j4TQmmH1lnFvDDx1O45fKaYl1wKaGuh4DowfYk7mJVHA5c1W54bLdD-W_T-Z5q3NQcaZbbQTgksIqDGyCaA6YSt5UUQYqD8kpr6V26NdPvS8IDnXmcQA/s1600/DSC07741.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2i9SEm0-vXS5iBk10Y4j4TQmmH1lnFvDDx1O45fKaYl1wKaGuh4DowfYk7mJVHA5c1W54bLdD-W_T-Z5q3NQcaZbbQTgksIqDGyCaA6YSt5UUQYqD8kpr6V26NdPvS8IDnXmcQA/s200/DSC07741.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625160007738214834" /></a><br /><br />Saw Old faithfull do its thing and lost myself in that fairytale landscape. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy2S4_6gQ6ZBC3p_h1B3BAsffNw0-20GOmlpP5cdDDT7UXWEqPgRMF3EHPj1nM6SL0KfQSvSBzQ1FwVKOmfWX4iT11OSrfCnTVwtUtweCLJBcbYp09KP_4Ny3REYrkvRRRb7HqvQ/s1600/DSC07659.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy2S4_6gQ6ZBC3p_h1B3BAsffNw0-20GOmlpP5cdDDT7UXWEqPgRMF3EHPj1nM6SL0KfQSvSBzQ1FwVKOmfWX4iT11OSrfCnTVwtUtweCLJBcbYp09KP_4Ny3REYrkvRRRb7HqvQ/s200/DSC07659.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625159998530666834" /></a><br /><br />That night I slept at a 20 dollar nottin special campsite but made sure that the next day I got up at 5am so I could get to the campsite of my choice at 07.30am. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit9AV_MZGB360UvjSNA5zNwWznnpjGMOT13ws3dMiC_RAfF7NRaYptP-Os_8DAfe-SqzlIULL9AksVj07VERlLKBPlNWt2DcKBXa7ZDosbeQ_bc53bH9UsVFOGDazuUMG-A_OxZA/s1600/DSC07772.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit9AV_MZGB360UvjSNA5zNwWznnpjGMOT13ws3dMiC_RAfF7NRaYptP-Os_8DAfe-SqzlIULL9AksVj07VERlLKBPlNWt2DcKBXa7ZDosbeQ_bc53bH9UsVFOGDazuUMG-A_OxZA/s200/DSC07772.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625160368772961954" /></a><br /><br />This getting up early thingie would probably mean I would get a spot at the Tower Fall campsite, that is where I wanted to be, it was the smallest site, located in the top right hand corner of the upper loop, and very primitive without running water and pit toilets, but that was fine for me as there would be no huge rv's that had generators and screaming kids or small barking doggies they took along. The campsite I wanted hosts only 39 spaces of which most are meant for a tent and there is loads of space in between the spots and its on top of a little hill, in the midst of a forest. This site is "wanted" so to say, and you can not reserve spaces, it's first come first serve ... gotta put in some effort sometimes .. but that was a mission for the next day, first it was time to explore the geiser area with the sun setting ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC320lh67bAxM4a0oauWYwzevMs2V31QommFjAW5msLJimPKgDPXA6_k7FGvMcjNPJQyNJIBBGtVXCkeetcjXmlD06QgDkHlhK2mpJClAQm8hyGSNyHfQI7_iLddYB5bFTBYqt6Q/s1600/DSC07771.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC320lh67bAxM4a0oauWYwzevMs2V31QommFjAW5msLJimPKgDPXA6_k7FGvMcjNPJQyNJIBBGtVXCkeetcjXmlD06QgDkHlhK2mpJClAQm8hyGSNyHfQI7_iLddYB5bFTBYqt6Q/s200/DSC07771.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625161272971586050" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOpZ50H2x7kZBFI4RQ6gYkdzFWCQOILQIRq5MtATSnxcfMpn671XAkK_BjUnyLL59Iy7tBm_UgWQKN6wh_vTV84ikT8z81KWqGZ7irfRj1_V-oXrT4bqme5efSMHuNlCGXeqXmrw/s1600/DSC07819.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOpZ50H2x7kZBFI4RQ6gYkdzFWCQOILQIRq5MtATSnxcfMpn671XAkK_BjUnyLL59Iy7tBm_UgWQKN6wh_vTV84ikT8z81KWqGZ7irfRj1_V-oXrT4bqme5efSMHuNlCGXeqXmrw/s200/DSC07819.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625161265680486850" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtrEVGBMZSrRM5IMq4jfXZEN9HPrJjd8TwjKt5yK1xV9kXXuh49BwBI6lJe0SCq63O63TIxWe8NdyZaB_hOky4o23q1VBrMbp2QOHsIE-buFzVAAl4kb4um509AmebvgoEwSUE3g/s1600/DSC07701.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtrEVGBMZSrRM5IMq4jfXZEN9HPrJjd8TwjKt5yK1xV9kXXuh49BwBI6lJe0SCq63O63TIxWe8NdyZaB_hOky4o23q1VBrMbp2QOHsIE-buFzVAAl4kb4um509AmebvgoEwSUE3g/s200/DSC07701.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625161264255960434" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjscveqzN4Mo6gT7TJWpTbNKFw9PUg5Ob7y3X3tEhL7Rkekkhs4meY0FPzYEdGjLXqhfM5HgekliS4_VnT_ibtoDQ8_dHsy9SsbERLUQu_KEEzJCAMMAgOYKASsMPPpRVyVWVobtg/s1600/DSC07914.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjscveqzN4Mo6gT7TJWpTbNKFw9PUg5Ob7y3X3tEhL7Rkekkhs4meY0FPzYEdGjLXqhfM5HgekliS4_VnT_ibtoDQ8_dHsy9SsbERLUQu_KEEzJCAMMAgOYKASsMPPpRVyVWVobtg/s200/DSC07914.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625161260619235666" /></a><br /><br />unforgettable again ... <br /><br /><br />26th may <br /><br />5 am .. wakey wakey rise and shine .. before 6 I had started up all systems and was on my way .... wow ... it was hard not to stop everywhere ... so amazingly beautiful this place ,,, but ... I needed to push on, I was on a mission. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbowW9Y_OwzyahrkZLUi4Em8mQXSpkXyt8lIJRTpyNFJDB0CxYd0SzxhKem4icZDzq0RWSRx8Uur1AJoHsAYhSL5LRTF9Wn79nJHK_9rb-CFNO2WTRZOpBtfOD0rc1uHrmAi9FnQ/s1600/DSC07795.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbowW9Y_OwzyahrkZLUi4Em8mQXSpkXyt8lIJRTpyNFJDB0CxYd0SzxhKem4icZDzq0RWSRx8Uur1AJoHsAYhSL5LRTF9Wn79nJHK_9rb-CFNO2WTRZOpBtfOD0rc1uHrmAi9FnQ/s200/DSC07795.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625161996211137282" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS8mg_W7Nud3PDfJODShFf5Cdf_1_cEdw7NQ_K7lHtK1FlieKZ7UjARrytN5Hq5v1oB73MEt23YR6y-Wg_wLOA36GLUSpqI1JF3Grfc3KFcHCWStJfkSip2_xMu_1bsQIzvPj9og/s1600/DSC07842.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS8mg_W7Nud3PDfJODShFf5Cdf_1_cEdw7NQ_K7lHtK1FlieKZ7UjARrytN5Hq5v1oB73MEt23YR6y-Wg_wLOA36GLUSpqI1JF3Grfc3KFcHCWStJfkSip2_xMu_1bsQIzvPj9og/s200/DSC07842.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625161993842875954" /></a><br /><br />When I got to Tower Fall I found one site free, and it was perfect... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHIAu7KfVNT3MnFglkAw-ug-vnDL_58tobdC26X03GYj2AkTuSVHUzNaTmSdLwYtWGn98JunfIOKcCXBkYFBCz38kOTEZRzBPYJ8grErzA8Qa20f8XmOCXQje6Z0yeuO48IoR9dg/s1600/DSC07847.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHIAu7KfVNT3MnFglkAw-ug-vnDL_58tobdC26X03GYj2AkTuSVHUzNaTmSdLwYtWGn98JunfIOKcCXBkYFBCz38kOTEZRzBPYJ8grErzA8Qa20f8XmOCXQje6Z0yeuO48IoR9dg/s200/DSC07847.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625161988868306338" /></a><br /><br />filled out the paperwork and after reserving my spot, I took off again, back into magic country ... I went back to the mammoth area where there was the visitor centre with an office for the backcountry ranger, that is where I wanted to go because there was the great memorial day holiday weekend coming up which probably meant a lot of people were gonna hit the main roads, so I wanted to make sure I knew where to go, off the beaten track so to say ... The guy was great, gave me loads of info about hikes I could do and so I did .. first I had to capture this guy I spotted, it was a challenge to get close .. but I did ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXiogS2sm958-vjl99kPSgbST22rZ1cBz0U2zrfZ9LFRAOKi5zw_b5Q8jOYULZCWjAtZRYhiv_jr5uMk4ZF2OtePOg0Seq06PbDvD3UvSYuH0mOD2GbdhvQYoyjISjCPXFrKubIQ/s1600/DSC07966.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXiogS2sm958-vjl99kPSgbST22rZ1cBz0U2zrfZ9LFRAOKi5zw_b5Q8jOYULZCWjAtZRYhiv_jr5uMk4ZF2OtePOg0Seq06PbDvD3UvSYuH0mOD2GbdhvQYoyjISjCPXFrKubIQ/s200/DSC07966.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625163137967804162" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMmBmC6auFQC2vCk6Te9h8L-jIzmpwwuThXqcjl8-JB-BaYAYN2nTuUkgI5DypyvXHGBA0e09VsAlzsZtWgBtVfAi-IVA9w_g2IlT3cwRILMv0KzZkJ1t6Svq-bI4RQGdKPZ03zA/s1600/DSC07968.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMmBmC6auFQC2vCk6Te9h8L-jIzmpwwuThXqcjl8-JB-BaYAYN2nTuUkgI5DypyvXHGBA0e09VsAlzsZtWgBtVfAi-IVA9w_g2IlT3cwRILMv0KzZkJ1t6Svq-bI4RQGdKPZ03zA/s200/DSC07968.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625163150521474050" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3CV0VaVk41uLlZFrvIWOcLQ63DPbWdjgwlyFm3wA-WCvzw2rlrKMYve6Alqo7v_s8stjoWMyg8AaDNRRiXWuXOqZ7a2SmIvxeTzZRVx83TWuSBmnd2ebdmXJqq26yRt3RhAmYoQ/s1600/DSC07971.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3CV0VaVk41uLlZFrvIWOcLQ63DPbWdjgwlyFm3wA-WCvzw2rlrKMYve6Alqo7v_s8stjoWMyg8AaDNRRiXWuXOqZ7a2SmIvxeTzZRVx83TWuSBmnd2ebdmXJqq26yRt3RhAmYoQ/s200/DSC07971.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625163156582403410" /></a><br /><br />then made a great hike to the beaver ponds that day, never saw the beavers, but there was the dam they had build .. fascinating stuff ... Then as I came back, it started snowing and I mean .. snowing for real .... the trip back was an adventure with bison crossing the road when you could hardly see a thing .... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMBl7DpHFivGzLJ4s9rjabLIeql4YuzJISSUeb7w4uVh5w0epFkO311A35t7kqV9DhfsWE6Ntuy2PQ7O7jFZNfcUXJA9dJx5JzaV9MEwDVRfmsy1fbr-l0Oe-f_hJO8u1CAm-BGA/s1600/DSC08028.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMBl7DpHFivGzLJ4s9rjabLIeql4YuzJISSUeb7w4uVh5w0epFkO311A35t7kqV9DhfsWE6Ntuy2PQ7O7jFZNfcUXJA9dJx5JzaV9MEwDVRfmsy1fbr-l0Oe-f_hJO8u1CAm-BGA/s200/DSC08028.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625163924302597378" /></a><br /><br />but hey .. I got there ... there was already quite some snow at the campsite which added to the whole experience ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsQ9kdNlzzt8EDFaMV3gT0Fg-L-uPd_6wA0BbDNw_M78INuj-YhQUkSfIUbs4pdM3cj4uORU0AWEgR5DPqrtIyqK_Fol4y43sN5VfdKNXNHecbWwslnuGinMbUO4P56xfV8oilNg/s1600/DSC08037.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsQ9kdNlzzt8EDFaMV3gT0Fg-L-uPd_6wA0BbDNw_M78INuj-YhQUkSfIUbs4pdM3cj4uORU0AWEgR5DPqrtIyqK_Fol4y43sN5VfdKNXNHecbWwslnuGinMbUO4P56xfV8oilNg/s200/DSC08037.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625163921737192610" /></a><br /><br />i slept like a baby ...<br /><br /><br />27th may <br /><br />Woke up in a white world ... what a present this was ....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjys24GmF0cx_Zj1AQv4-pvpJMsrDKdz9tHl2B3CDr5j0U58s8BIqfvOO3pmZIozugTaPL8L2pwVcI4soJDVeKLIFNiQDIoqR79fZROW9xh8TQjAmM92uL_6H1GQb9mHhIEW5VMlA/s1600/DSC08058.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjys24GmF0cx_Zj1AQv4-pvpJMsrDKdz9tHl2B3CDr5j0U58s8BIqfvOO3pmZIozugTaPL8L2pwVcI4soJDVeKLIFNiQDIoqR79fZROW9xh8TQjAmM92uL_6H1GQb9mHhIEW5VMlA/s200/DSC08058.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625164532207374354" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOVliMWJD0NhY9ZHPaF5voO9susk96KSvYydUemoOAMLfVHFPtHDUAqlQ2_MIfvjNxfZMTh75cM-zw3Q7jyP4_iXseXHIgmdBMKkin9xuAdu_3CEKA_v_6JnlcJnF5zJRT2_u65w/s1600/DSC08052.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOVliMWJD0NhY9ZHPaF5voO9susk96KSvYydUemoOAMLfVHFPtHDUAqlQ2_MIfvjNxfZMTh75cM-zw3Q7jyP4_iXseXHIgmdBMKkin9xuAdu_3CEKA_v_6JnlcJnF5zJRT2_u65w/s200/DSC08052.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625164525214346690" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixs8ek7ohRWksm1QiThUOL-AwIEEZxnSgNQc6WjRSDR1IlyW50LY5Oq_an7iEMtqK2QxZ1cYr2M3CklVgxb3QDLJ1J-a46NgBXzIj6ik8YfpfUVrvK2ZO6LQ2IUo_6dIYYMLY5rg/s1600/DSC08054.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixs8ek7ohRWksm1QiThUOL-AwIEEZxnSgNQc6WjRSDR1IlyW50LY5Oq_an7iEMtqK2QxZ1cYr2M3CklVgxb3QDLJ1J-a46NgBXzIj6ik8YfpfUVrvK2ZO6LQ2IUo_6dIYYMLY5rg/s200/DSC08054.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625164522596540354" /></a><br /><br />Today I stayed close to base ... did not want to repeat that return trip to the site like last nights ... I did an amazing hike trough this white wonder world. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirCXELRRGuduYJ-ePgA5lQ9Dk7rFNUsOn30oIsjclKOiaZRHvR1W0GpVYk7aKuNeY6bC3XuyCwLv6kWeVhWB3VB_kkalppuDqHpVqaOLkpJ-c9PJ5Z1t6ubu9dB6uYGZ08trmhQw/s1600/DSC08133.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirCXELRRGuduYJ-ePgA5lQ9Dk7rFNUsOn30oIsjclKOiaZRHvR1W0GpVYk7aKuNeY6bC3XuyCwLv6kWeVhWB3VB_kkalppuDqHpVqaOLkpJ-c9PJ5Z1t6ubu9dB6uYGZ08trmhQw/s200/DSC08133.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625165478756035090" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnOOZSsTFcjn6qlOpp4j-wldItct7nfk5IskOCL6jrZm2tgeZYWQPkPU88AS-t0jpedFqBqOuRK6gPqjC5LfXG_OA5RcXjTuJQq2nG-7QAizQd2m8kzBA64Cl_8-USECh-AJKWeQ/s1600/DSC08105.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnOOZSsTFcjn6qlOpp4j-wldItct7nfk5IskOCL6jrZm2tgeZYWQPkPU88AS-t0jpedFqBqOuRK6gPqjC5LfXG_OA5RcXjTuJQq2nG-7QAizQd2m8kzBA64Cl_8-USECh-AJKWeQ/s200/DSC08105.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625165472261858242" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXXe6DjTCk31mooxauA8PC3cdIy4XVuz_LU5l3yedTc-FwNo8cQ3Y5Lr8mzryNajW3lb3XDdFziChR4CZlF968Lr00kmBNPAIPX5aBl_vdZIV0ESSafL_Yobk47QxkXDcTtd0JDg/s1600/DSC08090.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXXe6DjTCk31mooxauA8PC3cdIy4XVuz_LU5l3yedTc-FwNo8cQ3Y5Lr8mzryNajW3lb3XDdFziChR4CZlF968Lr00kmBNPAIPX5aBl_vdZIV0ESSafL_Yobk47QxkXDcTtd0JDg/s200/DSC08090.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625165465343998354" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghzHkbCZX62-RPEZH6Z7G0vLqqzWlUwNV0Su9RI5obP9RrG95ApvjniVtH28GOGtkgjA6rHnCqg7LTvBh6SjaztJ1F8Wn9guhYtOKiJdRmcWxvDyP1AcrIIP4Bqsycp5xQCmQKRw/s1600/DSC08082.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghzHkbCZX62-RPEZH6Z7G0vLqqzWlUwNV0Su9RI5obP9RrG95ApvjniVtH28GOGtkgjA6rHnCqg7LTvBh6SjaztJ1F8Wn9guhYtOKiJdRmcWxvDyP1AcrIIP4Bqsycp5xQCmQKRw/s200/DSC08082.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625165450478959730" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ZjC4BWZrX30LZIqbbGV-OTlNMobDW7D54Ud138OxoLsuBir-TRIx0eUBve9ko2li4279owc-MGCw7YTinMhmWeS2Xav_EmzS5bmitFQpttTL-iEvDI-1vLMruXC_2-lLrxz9wA/s1600/DSC08072.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ZjC4BWZrX30LZIqbbGV-OTlNMobDW7D54Ud138OxoLsuBir-TRIx0eUBve9ko2li4279owc-MGCw7YTinMhmWeS2Xav_EmzS5bmitFQpttTL-iEvDI-1vLMruXC_2-lLrxz9wA/s200/DSC08072.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625165442464417394" /></a><br /><br />There were a few rivers that I had to cross sometimes, making for an exciting moment as they were big and flowing fast due to all the melting snow ... and I did fall one time, trying to walk across the river over a tree, but it was very much eaten by termites, so it almost snapped when I made my way across, did not fall in the water, but was left with some great bruises and scratches ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd-dk8AeNUeFc1h9ISaLmn95SbKHD4OKviqxOzVl8srQb81TMw8RDlGtHm-fBxc69qPy83WMkYPYinSLW8AS3VzMwsaB8QEqxKCRcPye18MBO5PGhbH3A0iEI2l_7KSCYYvYbLRw/s1600/DSC08157.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd-dk8AeNUeFc1h9ISaLmn95SbKHD4OKviqxOzVl8srQb81TMw8RDlGtHm-fBxc69qPy83WMkYPYinSLW8AS3VzMwsaB8QEqxKCRcPye18MBO5PGhbH3A0iEI2l_7KSCYYvYbLRw/s200/DSC08157.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625166458061944546" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmiKwA_feu5Ybv4PNsmzXsXeER1xw_vGUOG-aF-E7y6pbtOWnuDX2bq1cyyV3gl2FTBb5R1DoXtl-8XX9rBayiTpm0WKri0bBizYjtS_mu5iMh7AtcMjbrIIjOx4oqknIvzO-AdQ/s1600/DSC08179.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmiKwA_feu5Ybv4PNsmzXsXeER1xw_vGUOG-aF-E7y6pbtOWnuDX2bq1cyyV3gl2FTBb5R1DoXtl-8XX9rBayiTpm0WKri0bBizYjtS_mu5iMh7AtcMjbrIIjOx4oqknIvzO-AdQ/s200/DSC08179.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625166461481993074" /></a><br /><br />The rest of the day was filled by visiting the nearby waterfall and river and I explored the Lamar valley, where a bunch of wolves were re-introduced some time ago ... I needed to see these but this would need to wait untill some early morning when the wolves would be up and about .. Spotted my first black bear and grizzly bear, be it from far away so no intimidating pictures for you to see ... the sight of the grizzly was truely awesome, this thing is BIG and you don't wanna run into that thing on your way trough the park ...... ! <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_TOeonHfrfgXVpA3JBDM-VjqOVHhjz0ATT6N60CthaVmlMuI2kn8kagACFSD515yqj8t3Lb0BCUjIbWHT0IVEuvAv_ZRNeDoidt3u1hUB2UxTvrTazPzS3uaxheNfFPSyUh24wQ/s1600/DSC08332.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_TOeonHfrfgXVpA3JBDM-VjqOVHhjz0ATT6N60CthaVmlMuI2kn8kagACFSD515yqj8t3Lb0BCUjIbWHT0IVEuvAv_ZRNeDoidt3u1hUB2UxTvrTazPzS3uaxheNfFPSyUh24wQ/s200/DSC08332.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625168687859198802" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNKljNl4ZnPshNDQb93SfKGZkiAG4xSzSkN7VwFTZjF9VPA9d041f150iLe3gFiXqJu1523v9BHO8Q6N8RABdhySL2VaiU1ab9h2rcGtoWHuRY_KV46u4ZyPylY2kpwhEO88dAfQ/s1600/DSC08331.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNKljNl4ZnPshNDQb93SfKGZkiAG4xSzSkN7VwFTZjF9VPA9d041f150iLe3gFiXqJu1523v9BHO8Q6N8RABdhySL2VaiU1ab9h2rcGtoWHuRY_KV46u4ZyPylY2kpwhEO88dAfQ/s200/DSC08331.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625168679013284002" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg87H4ogVMeoEvdf7YzZfxNA8MCH9SWE5IdFZ-kxr0PAA-_f3sGe9sp0RYhU-bTFPVixstNgaKyqS0FWKYb5hoR0WxKzYSmASWLcbKcxVYxqJ9Di_QZr2cz41J_PQ9V5v9pUxeDoQ/s1600/DSC08323.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg87H4ogVMeoEvdf7YzZfxNA8MCH9SWE5IdFZ-kxr0PAA-_f3sGe9sp0RYhU-bTFPVixstNgaKyqS0FWKYb5hoR0WxKzYSmASWLcbKcxVYxqJ9Di_QZr2cz41J_PQ9V5v9pUxeDoQ/s200/DSC08323.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625168675658078114" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0cOGMhUCdkzCWuligpUXyulhJE5JJxWp7R3GbAD5jsn53rETeGR8yN92uCB1D-KNnXdz-U8VemxRuwEnZSqRMhKxjMjiPTruaA_Jtx28R9lY7wVZO0y55uwI7YpslCgfc1wSaw/s1600/DSC08400.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0cOGMhUCdkzCWuligpUXyulhJE5JJxWp7R3GbAD5jsn53rETeGR8yN92uCB1D-KNnXdz-U8VemxRuwEnZSqRMhKxjMjiPTruaA_Jtx28R9lY7wVZO0y55uwI7YpslCgfc1wSaw/s200/DSC08400.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625168671621111554" /></a><br /><br />The night turned out a bit different as someone had decided to pull up into my site, what the fuck .. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVWmAHKIvxAGVzNDLBYAmTAENt7g88BzjmjZD1EEPB2Ejos3O6zJ6ejwtzjwbNSnrBtwzU6SokkRPO_iaIB_BK0walRnR_lurPZEiAbJKsWUFE-1Rx-YX80ku2r9a5JxhKUMXIpQ/s1600/DSC08336.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVWmAHKIvxAGVzNDLBYAmTAENt7g88BzjmjZD1EEPB2Ejos3O6zJ6ejwtzjwbNSnrBtwzU6SokkRPO_iaIB_BK0walRnR_lurPZEiAbJKsWUFE-1Rx-YX80ku2r9a5JxhKUMXIpQ/s200/DSC08336.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625171188351505682" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirA2rmEE_6Yp0E7eHdEG8H-CQfochlM_6FoxVazfNX3T5wewDUDTg2zyzEInsgnmi27H3iHiz0mGFEjQ7laMu3kjgXnzZ_cDbd0y4YVWsB9YtZV7VHhawig2XkuHf4KBf7nqT1Nw/s1600/DSC08335.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirA2rmEE_6Yp0E7eHdEG8H-CQfochlM_6FoxVazfNX3T5wewDUDTg2zyzEInsgnmi27H3iHiz0mGFEjQ7laMu3kjgXnzZ_cDbd0y4YVWsB9YtZV7VHhawig2XkuHf4KBf7nqT1Nw/s200/DSC08335.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625171178131477522" /></a><br /><br />They told me there was no reservation sign at the pole there (which at first I refused to believe cause I had even used ducktape to stick my proof of reservation to the pole, but nottin I could do, if they said there was nottin there ...... ) so they took the spot .. It was a french couple from canada with an older model volkswagen and they had their campfire going for a while, so I considered my options, I mean if I wanted I could make them move but I saw a free spot close by, not as nice as my original spot and closer to the neighbours there, but I could go there for the one night and that would mean the french couple could stay at their temporary basecamp and I was gonna return to my spot the next day .. so, thats what we did ... the night was spend very quiet again ... that campsite was magic !<br /><br /><br /><br />28th may <br /><br />Woke up with someone screaming : "there is a bear, dont run, dont run" wow ... are they actually in the site ? And yes, they do roam around the campsite from time to time .. so that was a proper warning for the hikes I was gonna be doing that day ... <br /><br />Had another great bonus ... there had been a landslide on the one road that was open and was leading you towards our campsite from the rest of the park .. "we are dealing with an entire mountain that is trying to come down" said the ranger .. "so the road is closed and we dont know when it will be opened again" ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_6R020tIEo0xPkZyqra17EQ_0NLGq3uzUA59C16NnMpIate749L4ZjYqcoJq9RIJbqwNWC7BQUloQqlGrd1cDtASX0CFkYquY1pNBJKG875uPCUKMAZgje6fuwTZrcYH1hF2PuA/s1600/DSC08567.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_6R020tIEo0xPkZyqra17EQ_0NLGq3uzUA59C16NnMpIate749L4ZjYqcoJq9RIJbqwNWC7BQUloQqlGrd1cDtASX0CFkYquY1pNBJKG875uPCUKMAZgje6fuwTZrcYH1hF2PuA/s200/DSC08567.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625179666039480290" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYEIQLoYypoTFcNA5hw7rsL9IZYoPV45Uy98PhonA61naktuPFfii1BW-wNh3IRrXFeYwkuXKLq7XCi7uCNcUGT0WXlDyp2jIY4XGZPPFBlJ_tse3kRBn_wb3BTyAsfj30WuwI_Q/s1600/DSC08566.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYEIQLoYypoTFcNA5hw7rsL9IZYoPV45Uy98PhonA61naktuPFfii1BW-wNh3IRrXFeYwkuXKLq7XCi7uCNcUGT0WXlDyp2jIY4XGZPPFBlJ_tse3kRBn_wb3BTyAsfj30WuwI_Q/s200/DSC08566.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625179662140979586" /></a><br /><br />uuuuh ... that meant two things, one, I could not get to the other area;s of the park, and the second was that no-one could get from there to here .... and that with the memorial day weekend and labour day coming up ... all americans have a long weekend off and traditionally it means the start of the season for most national parks, so it was gonna get busy, normally .. ha ha but with this landslide it was a different ballgame ... yes .... that was actually pretty special .... it meant we had this entire area of the park for just a small bunch of people ... ha ha ... great .. this meant undisturbed hikes and perfect moments of spotting wildlife without other people approaching and scaring them away ... I was gonna have a blast here ... let the road be closed a little longer .. please .... (little did I know that the road stayed closed untill the next wednesday .. so I was getting what I wanted, and more, for a full week .... A truely unique time in the park while the busiest weekend was getting on its way in the rest of the park ... busloads of tourists hopping from one site to another ... taking their pictures,, be loud and obnoxious and move on again.<br /><br />I did loads of hiking today, doing the specimen ridge trail ... <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh7FuQBx0mkLgwRYreoXghSNiPY4jA2Ot5eBpTPEUz8gb153MxEldfuF6Oc_ln1v_Rtf1J58ZY6AN14Pm4CaUiaBKRNrSdCdm6a4GM2bns1yhpXY-iI6M94L-KzO9HipRDnLKf0w/s1600/DSC08416.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh7FuQBx0mkLgwRYreoXghSNiPY4jA2Ot5eBpTPEUz8gb153MxEldfuF6Oc_ln1v_Rtf1J58ZY6AN14Pm4CaUiaBKRNrSdCdm6a4GM2bns1yhpXY-iI6M94L-KzO9HipRDnLKf0w/s200/DSC08416.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625175578422533778" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyXwcKScDFqV37Kvdjx_LPSuDb7JLZVDjnUzOZB4zdA5a09PWgQHPFXLg6eJGHaWlmTsWWQ9S_G5ApYUVJ5V_hGotJksVaokAJwHsGCRfQV1D-08VmDRjLC281bN-mvKfYyz6gcg/s1600/DSC08406.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDh-kPWrgWADmQJpymChoSl9q5fe778mBwAHlk_Lps2AdNtqgOTNEOvXa_s2P32oG6OOhCET8F-DhuQhsMCVqAF2cGBGcy-qLi8as99kB6dxxwO_n3NfB5rNIhel3PdxxiQpJKoA/s200/DSC08432.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625175562454702786" /></a><br /><br />awesome views .. flowers and animals ... very nice ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBULZo2JkK-QyIuDYVsHNaI0VISCHJSoQ3bAxMqfqKpET9h-GC82Yg_eL0BgNEtdFdBjRBnHiy3XnK9nHOgfT80jPtZIYZj4HVDSmLDv5PE9sQSHff3q6lHtPN01tUjcZYex_wew/s1600/DSC08514.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBULZo2JkK-QyIuDYVsHNaI0VISCHJSoQ3bAxMqfqKpET9h-GC82Yg_eL0BgNEtdFdBjRBnHiy3XnK9nHOgfT80jPtZIYZj4HVDSmLDv5PE9sQSHff3q6lHtPN01tUjcZYex_wew/s200/DSC08514.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625178253593491874" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNcvurr1kc1rsZWwNw99ln96WI3kX4QXoScRUfLQLr0cHSGzP82f9rh_Ei0deMPQlOfwPR_sNuLeyReoa1J32EwfMXnyCfstuXMbgmR5cNsqnwVk9LLUii0uE5btWxJWyF2tvJng/s1600/DSC08505.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsbCYCf4hkh-HUOQGH5DuQ3L65mvf9BW2nOPLHuZbBkI2LDzDtokZrab_jXTv2UoKax9FDGWU42TkAH1E8i-x3IcGhSCzFWdq-GXY2pUYsJ3CJPmXyMxtfQwHIGmCQ0c6_MJCe7A/s200/DSC08473.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625178230662669010" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnlVyeZwlHy7nfqjzBm_AFrSt_REp4Nhn7F7wdkICTgO0oJST6GUhoz14KnYcWFi3nwZnCdcDkz2YWPCiL8qNJQ3pza4OS4ub3PPj-ieldrIMmeW0OP9BLx2XQZky-RWk18dps8g/s1600/DSC08454.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnlVyeZwlHy7nfqjzBm_AFrSt_REp4Nhn7F7wdkICTgO0oJST6GUhoz14KnYcWFi3nwZnCdcDkz2YWPCiL8qNJQ3pza4OS4ub3PPj-ieldrIMmeW0OP9BLx2XQZky-RWk18dps8g/s200/DSC08454.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625178223019714114" /></a><br /><br />hiking is one of the perfect ways to loose yourself in the moment ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQDl7gUHY2UPivdXK_f5OzqP_8QQwpmTyjZn8jqru4x6TEPPvg5XyLFuYNqu-2ws0bwCu1tGno10x4sPs6Sw3QgbfuOiFGLbl-CgufR54lmZwBBOfqAAf8YiUwH8ZDRHxFJfMEpw/s1600/DSC08549.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQDl7gUHY2UPivdXK_f5OzqP_8QQwpmTyjZn8jqru4x6TEPPvg5XyLFuYNqu-2ws0bwCu1tGno10x4sPs6Sw3QgbfuOiFGLbl-CgufR54lmZwBBOfqAAf8YiUwH8ZDRHxFJfMEpw/s200/DSC08549.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625178925837924050" /></a><br /><br />simply ... B E<br /><br /><br />29th may<br /><br />Today it was time for the hellroaring trail, another part of the valley was ready to be explored, it was beautifull to see yet another part of the tower - rooseveld area -- on my way I found an antler of a moose (moose paddle) <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUfknu-Xmc-kVAAUwD7uYaDkWF8YKsyDg8DhnBI-mRbJiA3BGtCMtYFg8aeAZV7N_mPIPCFIdq3Fpp8kK2giBA0pKgoTPcMqaEG-YrrDut_eFEQZSos2UjfyIPF5A6-RpmoUAg-A/s1600/DSC08579.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUfknu-Xmc-kVAAUwD7uYaDkWF8YKsyDg8DhnBI-mRbJiA3BGtCMtYFg8aeAZV7N_mPIPCFIdq3Fpp8kK2giBA0pKgoTPcMqaEG-YrrDut_eFEQZSos2UjfyIPF5A6-RpmoUAg-A/s200/DSC08579.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625183622561057810" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ1QkxaHi3yU1Nzj5Ob1oT220Qpd6H9O0_paRqEgz4hWWPULbNnLd3Cxfn83bGSHUQMGw_BhYpkWbtqkVUGwnRjEw7JjKpNNtWob3mczkqjYWVqs8s7fvKucYG_dQ4BSp5l0XBhQ/s1600/DSC08579.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ1QkxaHi3yU1Nzj5Ob1oT220Qpd6H9O0_paRqEgz4hWWPULbNnLd3Cxfn83bGSHUQMGw_BhYpkWbtqkVUGwnRjEw7JjKpNNtWob3mczkqjYWVqs8s7fvKucYG_dQ4BSp5l0XBhQ/s200/DSC08579.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625183617935267634" /></a><br /><br />before I crossed the yellowstone river bridge, then, soon after crossing the river for the second time I also found a deer antler which in turn was not far from the carcass of a bison that had been eaten completely, but the sight of that huge animal being totally stripped down to nottin but hair and bones, pfffff ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL1RiOSVbwBfsImh6Giyjtk_p9-Yf_zo9N7rT1NYzPH1-MTxc_WS2EKCiN1Ktl-HkFLdySLQBAVkeuR7V93NM7Pb8KEzY8HmiFsWstKPfFkCspHkoDJXuUkeXn2uOcvmZMe6tRPg/s1600/DSC08627.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkT4R5mNPEP4gZUICRWlZlu_EMiETHS-_VJpMjJ1ZMbKvZVklqpsTxCyUD44uEUpMRnHU6Z8nqnL5vR5cNv274TavFnULFOCECKkvtYCuhVj8q2N-6mUD3xU28AWjuheb0Y2P_Mw/s200/DSC08690.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625180977266131234" /></a><br /><br />Wanted to get out of there just in case there was a hungry bear somewhere around, before I left I decided to take one of the two horns from the bison to have a closer look, later I put it up at some tree for someone else to discover ... did the same with the two antlers I found .. but first I made some use of the thing .... I actually used the deer antler to make some proper noise ... with a stick I would bang on the antler to let possible bears know that I was around and making my way trough the area .. bears dont like people and they get dangerous when you scare them, or surprise them .. so you must make noise and shout out loud every now and then ... I had this whistle with me, playing referee in a deserted forest .. ha ha .. I also did some proper singing about two bears making sandwiches (a well known childrens song in holland) so I never saw any bears (apart from the one crossing the road early in the morning on my way to the trailhead) .. I did get to see a marmot , some deer, beautiful birds, squirrels and pronghorn antilope .. and not to forget the landscape ... wowie .. all in all It took me a great 5 - 6 hours to hike some 10 miles, lost in paradise .. for real ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJPqsesqR5xxdOGtDa0vpPDfuOLoMqVkASA9NSJZ5HMWyD2R-VKHFRWB3RDqgSd2BpCIrFIOTSmQ9gO-KslyKWguuOsAi7HE_jcLflzexFvAYtYX4wGPf8u_T-X8X21wpADy32jg/s1600/DSC08646.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJPqsesqR5xxdOGtDa0vpPDfuOLoMqVkASA9NSJZ5HMWyD2R-VKHFRWB3RDqgSd2BpCIrFIOTSmQ9gO-KslyKWguuOsAi7HE_jcLflzexFvAYtYX4wGPf8u_T-X8X21wpADy32jg/s200/DSC08646.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625182121394400418" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJmEHYEvuFiz4cei2Icc-QZcykZzaTekmUFgukU4Z1KPNPFBD4olGti_jzCbaK_F7-7EELa2VBXmJO7LEFl9HuUYh8YLQc6XF2vcftpv7zR7aJtxpxYD_9wsG-bWsC4bwvnyW33Q/s1600/DSC08616.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJmEHYEvuFiz4cei2Icc-QZcykZzaTekmUFgukU4Z1KPNPFBD4olGti_jzCbaK_F7-7EELa2VBXmJO7LEFl9HuUYh8YLQc6XF2vcftpv7zR7aJtxpxYD_9wsG-bWsC4bwvnyW33Q/s200/DSC08616.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625182108772418226" /></a><br /><br />That night was filled with re-arranging some pictures and I watched a nice movie, too tired to do anything else.<br /><br /><br />30th may <br /><br /><br />By late sunday and monday right before sunset the animals would come out to eat and drink and as it was so extremely quiet in our area, they had gotten used to the idea that they were sort of out there alone too .. still, they were allways " potential pray" and they were allways on the alert ... bizarre how I got to see a baby deer that could barely walk, let alone run ... the parents had run away as they heard me coming, I could just see the baby being all shook up and try to run after the parents, but it couldn't, I could see it did not know what to do with its legs, it tried but soon, it simply duck down, slightly underneath some grean bushes, covering it somewhat. The parents were standing 10 meters further uphill, clearly worried, but I had seen in some nature documentary once that these animals know what to do, and this was a survival reaction. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiom8UfFMDg67nPqzKOpRe_vBKV-UrcHl2vTFmgLWP0LS1wRCn9XJA3ssIf8wg22QKR_nKHwKJKh73NirqZ89dyxWS-pOGE8fsc4IcvzxNskPRA5YRJTVXJ3Gs52n9iiHziPK3qVw/s1600/DSC08648.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiom8UfFMDg67nPqzKOpRe_vBKV-UrcHl2vTFmgLWP0LS1wRCn9XJA3ssIf8wg22QKR_nKHwKJKh73NirqZ89dyxWS-pOGE8fsc4IcvzxNskPRA5YRJTVXJ3Gs52n9iiHziPK3qVw/s200/DSC08648.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625185112253554706" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL92bBYh5FxloWnCRn5T8gSjJMyIlgfFOqQTsAz7aYfau8bJStWEU4qUHFupY_FL0lw4Atdt1oMNqMAAUrB5M_NygqftTrEjEHa2n9Alf-hBYVRRXCXb_rFlDirgURB8grjdUrjA/s1600/DSC08649.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL92bBYh5FxloWnCRn5T8gSjJMyIlgfFOqQTsAz7aYfau8bJStWEU4qUHFupY_FL0lw4Atdt1oMNqMAAUrB5M_NygqftTrEjEHa2n9Alf-hBYVRRXCXb_rFlDirgURB8grjdUrjA/s200/DSC08649.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625185121418040450" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio3yiFYqIrQGN8voOIdqnWBao0g4G7SX3ndDR_WYT5Utz7CSABzQMLV2j55pCQgtoBt4T7l0OeBL2KjllMT78eEIDnNfhtZUSkaprYV8mX3QK1MBgLeNzJEFAP21EYB0-yGe3IuA/s1600/DSC08650.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio3yiFYqIrQGN8voOIdqnWBao0g4G7SX3ndDR_WYT5Utz7CSABzQMLV2j55pCQgtoBt4T7l0OeBL2KjllMT78eEIDnNfhtZUSkaprYV8mX3QK1MBgLeNzJEFAP21EYB0-yGe3IuA/s200/DSC08650.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625185125137743970" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXTepgcQr-Z8tM4mf2mQBNXwn8n_8QYfdGOfVpqJCLCKrFYZWZn5jm2MzdaJYapXFQZ2g4EdqXppB7-h98pfM9hxeamB80pfSjJi2AfTNRq_HPUvV-Jopq7MB_mhajMPGLgoWEhA/s1600/DSC08651.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXTepgcQr-Z8tM4mf2mQBNXwn8n_8QYfdGOfVpqJCLCKrFYZWZn5jm2MzdaJYapXFQZ2g4EdqXppB7-h98pfM9hxeamB80pfSjJi2AfTNRq_HPUvV-Jopq7MB_mhajMPGLgoWEhA/s200/DSC08651.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625185128994893954" /></a><br /><br />On tv they showed that the baby dropped down as it had gotten a few feet away from the attacker after it first had been grabbed but then as it was being played with by the wild cat or cougar it managed to jump away, and drop down in the high grass withoit the cougar being able to find it again ... it meant it got away from death and lived on to see another scary moment turning into a lifechanging event .... it's truelly life or death, eat or be eaten out here .... literally, as I had read in a brochure about the park, the green gets greener and the sounds get intenser knowing that around the corner there might be that great grizzly bear to give you the scare of your life ... when you are OUT THERE. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Wow .... what a morning this was, spotted my wolfs, yes ... that is what I had wanted ... this was cool stuff. .. it was trying to hunt down some pronghorn antilopes and in doing so it actually made its way to the road, I was in a line of cars, all following the "leader of the pack" There was this guy who was following the wolves for a government programm, he also had a radio system that allowed him to track the wolves, so as soon as you would see the yellow range rover drive by, you knew something was on ... when the wolf started to come towards the cars, it was time for another government official to step in and chase the wolf away, as that was behaviour they could do without in the park, they cant have wolves approach human beings, they should be scared of them .. so they chased it away .. I was stunned, here was my first wolf, getting closer and closer, and now someone chases it away .. later when I heard more about the what and how of it all, it was ok but for a moment I was pissed off ... Not long after that I saw more of the wolves, as they had a dead rabbit and a carcass that they were chewing on .. a nice sight from far away, again, I needed someone else's scope to see, cause my binoculars were way too primitive for it all ... I started to understand why all these folks are out here with these huge camera's and professional scopes ... it gives them a true live national geographic experience !<br /><br />In the afternoon I needed some rest after the early morning for the wolves, so I slept some of the afternoon away and felt great when I woke up at 17,30 ready to make a good supply of pasta sauce for the coming three days. The night was filled with some reading, a movie and ... pictures ..... <br /><br />Actually I need to check out my pictures for this last day and the coming week ... I made so many .. and I cant find some of them for my blog ... so ... its a quick finish .. on to week 5 ... and I am on my way to chicago right now .... ciao4nowPaul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-18800433727596942302011-06-16T22:10:00.017+02:002011-06-16T22:55:47.116+02:00on the road 2011 usa - westcoast - week 3Hi there ..... I am getting more and more up-to-date ... it;s 16th june as I type this week three update ... being on the road all the time, there is simply to much stuff to be experienced, I lack the time to do digital updates with all these amazing national parks around me ... so you will have to be patient ... although I must say, week 4 is almost done, just like some of the past two weeks .. so ... I should be closing in on myself ... and also ... you dont have to read this stuff ... it's mostly done as a sort of diary for myself, but I know some of you like to read along and hopefully some get inspired and go out there to make me part of their own travelstories ... the world is big and amazing . get out there, stand up and evolve !<br /><br /><br /><br />17th May <br /><br />Woke up at the beach at the magical Cape Kiwanda, nottin had happened that night, no cops chasing me away, no locals burning some rubber off their tires either ... so it was great to have the peace of the morning there, the thought of jumping in the sea popped up for a second but very quickly left my head as soon as I remembered the cold from the day before ... no way jose .. Made my way up north, I stopped at a safeway supermarket for some much needed supplies and as I was loading them in I was approached by a guy in a big white van, offcourse he started about the bus .. as they all do .... ha ha .... he asked me what my route was and as he heard of my plans he pulled out a book that contained info about hot springs in the southern part of the usa. Mineral wells that pop up out of the earth, boiling hotpots full of healthy water and more amazingly, most of these were at brilliant locations, free and in the wild so to say ... "Keep it" he said, i carry a spare copy most of the time, so I can give it away .. yes .. lucky me ... That book would maybe lead me to some more amazing spots <br /><br />As I rolled further along highway 101 I made my way into washington via an amazing bridge <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidRFBUf7S1QTz_drbfJSgLwZNOT1GCxvywOadYbGV0AHZb9SEeLnQwu3B8fSKHEFf23gpj3CmlRLgEd62CEneaVT8G82lj3IGjOs3Nq_hqTrv1mvzyMYPiz8geXy385CcaetD8ew/s1600/DSC06796.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidRFBUf7S1QTz_drbfJSgLwZNOT1GCxvywOadYbGV0AHZb9SEeLnQwu3B8fSKHEFf23gpj3CmlRLgEd62CEneaVT8G82lj3IGjOs3Nq_hqTrv1mvzyMYPiz8geXy385CcaetD8ew/s200/DSC06796.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618914652081388114" /></a><br /><br />and not long after I found a nice campsite right by the water <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYfGHGFaB6fm-wKpmGah7V6gNnaI00TOMznB4NsyKquzotY8z6bt-rRmE57KkoCP-YVMYq36XdjE_kpY39jLc7BSfz7G2AurRd2tGxyfTRik5Zd9gcsyT90z_wCOfPg055BNeYXw/s1600/DSC06801.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYfGHGFaB6fm-wKpmGah7V6gNnaI00TOMznB4NsyKquzotY8z6bt-rRmE57KkoCP-YVMYq36XdjE_kpY39jLc7BSfz7G2AurRd2tGxyfTRik5Zd9gcsyT90z_wCOfPg055BNeYXw/s200/DSC06801.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618915066999433714" /></a><br /><br />so I decided to pull in there because this was Indian Land and there was a lot of police and locals that would not agree with me pulling up at somewhere for the night. And after all I had been having some free nights so the 15 dollar charge was "bearable" again. I made a nice fire, watched the full moon rise on one side and an amazing sunset in the west <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIws20S9NhubxFsywWFchrzeSIQx9xjWMOjcCdatPVq7ASKoFk4S31B_x8Snj8ebW624A2YK_uhILAhPL-xU6ChJ-IM_1zEheR3X2jgLAdr6TFMG08Vhlt1WsVvOVi9xuA5E9m-w/s1600/DSC06815.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIws20S9NhubxFsywWFchrzeSIQx9xjWMOjcCdatPVq7ASKoFk4S31B_x8Snj8ebW624A2YK_uhILAhPL-xU6ChJ-IM_1zEheR3X2jgLAdr6TFMG08Vhlt1WsVvOVi9xuA5E9m-w/s200/DSC06815.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618915070349064242" /></a><br /><br />and only made it to bed at 04.30 after all the wood had gone and I had listened to loads of music, loud over the headphones, and after Mother Moon had been wished well ... yep, I slept like a baby ...<br /><br /><br /><br />18th may <br />Despite the late night I woke up fresh and early, another day awaited ... filled up my water tank with fresh 30 liters of water, ready for more miles .... on my way towards yellowstone I decided to visit the Lewis and Clark centre today, these guys pioneered the trail to the west in a way (after the indians were long there offcourse) but these guys had to confirm stories about raging rivers and places where steam was coming from the ground (yellowstone) and other places that were unimaginable to the ones who had never seen or experienced these sights. I mean, can you think of a canyon 1 mile deep, with stones in all colours of the rainbow, and a whitewater river rushing trough it below ? If so, you probably have seen a discovery channel programme about the grand canyon or the likes ... in these days they only had painters that were taken along the discovery trips, so they could somewhat register what they see, and with their paintings they could take these sights back into the civilised world along to the curious ones waiting at home for news about these new unseen lands .... .. and so off they went, trough canyons, over rivers .. fighting bears and indians and rattlesnakes. It is an amazing story to read and see things about. When they had reached the Pacific Ocean, it meant the end of their journey, they stayed there to wait for spring and to collect salt from the sea for the journey ahead, and as the snow had gone, they went back east with a bag full of stories to be told .... <br /><br />It was good to witness more stuff about the american history, after all that is partly why I am here .. After this cultural injection (and a Nike outlet store that had the perfect hoodie waiting for me ... again, beautiful baby blue, michael jordan "design" basically meaning nice and baggy, and now they sold it for 20,- instead of the regular 70,- .... in the pocket along with some shirts for 5,- that had the brilliant print: just do it - made in 1972 - you might be able to guess what year I was born .... so I had to take these along ... After the small shopping spree I drove further along the coast and into the Olympic National Park which is big ... very big .. almost covering the entire peninsula on the left side of seattle, the park is unique cause it has a combo of rainforest, dunes, beaches and snow covered mountains, all closely connected. <br /><br />I made my way to the sea side and found a nice campsite where I could stay for 6,- as I got 50% discount with my annual pass <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmMBDfDGu7C3JshqzUe-rByHZKl27PDu9bdQ_3UdLCzeZ6u95WW8wMfX7Md5t-ix9Ne4tkrFvwwdp34KBo_cNjTNuuj3oZCcx6UZ5FW4O1-V7OFRmbVEIt3wTMYCh-OG2Jd1VBHg/s1600/DSC06927.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmMBDfDGu7C3JshqzUe-rByHZKl27PDu9bdQ_3UdLCzeZ6u95WW8wMfX7Md5t-ix9Ne4tkrFvwwdp34KBo_cNjTNuuj3oZCcx6UZ5FW4O1-V7OFRmbVEIt3wTMYCh-OG2Jd1VBHg/s200/DSC06927.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618917091375261042" /></a><br /><br />(or so I thought, cause as I type this I now know that the access pass discount means a discount for disabled persons, who get a socalled access pass .. to me the word access was the same as annual - pass ... as it gave me access to all the parks for a year, so .... it also seemed normal that with a pass you would get a "prefered treatment" over the regular visitors but hey ,.... some smart ranger told me the exact rules when I entered Death Valley and asked him if there were any places that offered the pass discount ... uuuuh what discount you mean ... ha ha .. ok ... gotcha ... but to be honest, I played stupid after that and filled out my access pass number and paying the discounted price, it also looks like they dont check if you have a pass or if you are disabled etc .... so hey ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB5xEVbp2Qlc_S-QfhCnDTVkth_V4AmvVxULihf0pq5sUPdlwX7aPFtqLvgMvi5uWm65SNDf995ibohyphenhyphenltKIqwAr_8YXJj9RMEj9hyphenhyphenSWgkbF1NQrlM58FSRrawkkAKg5ldF0ucgQ/s1600/DSC06984.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB5xEVbp2Qlc_S-QfhCnDTVkth_V4AmvVxULihf0pq5sUPdlwX7aPFtqLvgMvi5uWm65SNDf995ibohyphenhyphenltKIqwAr_8YXJj9RMEj9hyphenhyphenSWgkbF1NQrlM58FSRrawkkAKg5ldF0ucgQ/s200/DSC06984.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618918826133744786" /></a><br /><br />Anyway .. so I paid 6,- and the campsite was sorted for that night, I made my way to the beach for a nice hike with amazing pieces of wood .. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQwjbCeUK7WD8gIMs3I5TC2iUbSUNseFgEqjheQ6l-1ev-xWD4nCPRWTLK7CH_AdU8nWyC8lkU2lCbwS19Qtb-Tv7ixTvbuWQd0J0TO2IDp-UQHULTYKLVtIHecxcwgRabinmjg/s1600/DSC06904.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQwjbCeUK7WD8gIMs3I5TC2iUbSUNseFgEqjheQ6l-1ev-xWD4nCPRWTLK7CH_AdU8nWyC8lkU2lCbwS19Qtb-Tv7ixTvbuWQd0J0TO2IDp-UQHULTYKLVtIHecxcwgRabinmjg/s200/DSC06904.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618916236975549346" /></a><br /><br />I left this one there for others to enjoy .. its one of natures most amazing sculptures I found so far ....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjQpQhC88kIuY-37IUwiyMelpLWyrhge7DnZcS4Js1aIv0wYsx5qOVvhI5QaG8Tgpv039zN1PlhFdGpM9pDpxl_WjgSFobl5xaUPimQKkpUZHKAcMntczwP_5alNj8xq35_1HYCw/s1600/DSC06879.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjQpQhC88kIuY-37IUwiyMelpLWyrhge7DnZcS4Js1aIv0wYsx5qOVvhI5QaG8Tgpv039zN1PlhFdGpM9pDpxl_WjgSFobl5xaUPimQKkpUZHKAcMntczwP_5alNj8xq35_1HYCw/s200/DSC06879.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618916232475286786" /></a><br /><br />I love the Pacific !!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe3XbImrBUR4Tlk6d9_p2jAcxLcfHQpbkHilaZjeTX7hAc69KXGo69sxorRhSnUs6aWtDyMOBCNcL4hHjg-0NFcZHAmo779OzoDa9jaOwU5cG6CPQwB3tWSlwQWy5ZDtvKYy6hGg/s1600/DSC06909.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe3XbImrBUR4Tlk6d9_p2jAcxLcfHQpbkHilaZjeTX7hAc69KXGo69sxorRhSnUs6aWtDyMOBCNcL4hHjg-0NFcZHAmo779OzoDa9jaOwU5cG6CPQwB3tWSlwQWy5ZDtvKYy6hGg/s200/DSC06909.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618917112269998210" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />19th may<br /><br />Today it was time to visit the neighbouring village of La Push which was part of another indian reserve as where I had camped, this was on the other side of the river and as I pulled up in the harbour I saw three indian guys who seemed to be kiling time in front of their trailers with some drinks and a beautiful view of the sea. It turned out they had gone fishing earlier that day for the village bbq later that night, we started talking as he wanted to swap his vw beetle for "my" van ... They were cool guys ... telling great stories about the neighbouring village having killed a whale but ending up shooting the poor thing with a 50mm canon instead of using oldskool spears etc to kill it ... the pictures were horrid seemingly, and even the United Nations asked questions about it, as the killing of whales has been forbidden (yeah right .. come on Japanese whale killing bastards ... tackle these guys first UN !!!) <br /><br />We even played some golf (I stopped after 2 hits after a first hit nottin but air and the second attempt I almost broke the glass of one of the big campers that was parked bekow ... uuh so much for me hitting goldballs .... I needed some more practice I guess .. scotland had been a while. <br /><br />here is the "airshot - literally hitting nottin but air" ....<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh72sAY96NsO4dEAP-GEOJU0p2KRGAjIXuQEVHKzOjBXp1BV85i4K1WGntlgisNnh7D2M1q5SVJWss60iXtceuRUTQWb6Xogxp7O3UJeBu5P5-sVsLR_MBJggt1l08mTCtW0RpmHQ/s1600/DSC06933.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh72sAY96NsO4dEAP-GEOJU0p2KRGAjIXuQEVHKzOjBXp1BV85i4K1WGntlgisNnh7D2M1q5SVJWss60iXtceuRUTQWb6Xogxp7O3UJeBu5P5-sVsLR_MBJggt1l08mTCtW0RpmHQ/s200/DSC06933.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618918036490194450" /></a><br /><br />here is the camper I almost hit ....<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNR2pxqwrvKCyciDFua9Q7mAtr7E5OT-sl8WQVikKXXI7xFMYfawiB8CMUycKUuTwGvZXxZvb8fUCy5V_GYO9loLUP6I3LUT7k13t_aW5bIaz6mA_KxHHB-xm1bAENFMje-oz4Xw/s1600/DSC06935.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNR2pxqwrvKCyciDFua9Q7mAtr7E5OT-sl8WQVikKXXI7xFMYfawiB8CMUycKUuTwGvZXxZvb8fUCy5V_GYO9loLUP6I3LUT7k13t_aW5bIaz6mA_KxHHB-xm1bAENFMje-oz4Xw/s200/DSC06935.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618918048276659938" /></a><br /><br /><br />and here are the Indians .. !<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHMAKtj3Izfp8hr7WnIUourNq1oU_RKH8ChkFqTZex928Kcl95AtJC3m6Y-y8A9iYSjGcFxsvrdFT7lq3nmffzGEiNknBPhczNSI4pASQDw26ciuj5QyUa7I0hzvsLiG5vfyScdw/s1600/DSC06937.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHMAKtj3Izfp8hr7WnIUourNq1oU_RKH8ChkFqTZex928Kcl95AtJC3m6Y-y8A9iYSjGcFxsvrdFT7lq3nmffzGEiNknBPhczNSI4pASQDw26ciuj5QyUa7I0hzvsLiG5vfyScdw/s200/DSC06937.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618918052804311970" /></a><br /><br />The guys burned some cd's with original Indian songs for me to listen to to and get in the mood for some spiritual hike to certain places along the beach that night and next day .. nice ... I promised to use some of it for a tekno remix and send it to them when I get home ... <br /><br />After that great encounter I did a great hike along the beach and those spiritual places ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmdb-gJ70ogSZcrmXXNc98iOAJcFCyAgVwFF_vd0JNTQwkzaGTsWDYzvUCV9_9MUW58hjq41GUIfV2_nN0floLiJyNbDZniL0uy5RH0eVwrgE041CaE9D5o6MtGseok13YYLL-2g/s1600/DSC06991.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmdb-gJ70ogSZcrmXXNc98iOAJcFCyAgVwFF_vd0JNTQwkzaGTsWDYzvUCV9_9MUW58hjq41GUIfV2_nN0floLiJyNbDZniL0uy5RH0eVwrgE041CaE9D5o6MtGseok13YYLL-2g/s200/DSC06991.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618919929749905378" /></a><br /><br />awesome with a blue sky and seagulls soaring ... For the night I decided to drive to Lake Ozette as there was a campsite and possibly soem free spots to be spotted ... The campsite was nice but there was a big group of youngsters that were tooo present, not exactly what I was after ..... so I made my way to a point where boats can be launched into the lake, and from there I found this small road that was a disused logging road, it actually stopped after 500 meters so it was an exciting but perfect looking spot for a good nights sleep .. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUAQU4rgPpfb4b799B8xkdKM5W8pXt_b2Gc-AcsG5Tvjd8O9jI4-nuulYlzFgLAiVdHbdWp-MMrXnBbrL6XDfvr4QqQzuIHSlgFKywRvkHSzjgJ80_3_c1NWVe6-XTIHaPzUvDHw/s1600/DSC06981.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUAQU4rgPpfb4b799B8xkdKM5W8pXt_b2Gc-AcsG5Tvjd8O9jI4-nuulYlzFgLAiVdHbdWp-MMrXnBbrL6XDfvr4QqQzuIHSlgFKywRvkHSzjgJ80_3_c1NWVe6-XTIHaPzUvDHw/s200/DSC06981.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618918819724380690" /></a><br /><br />it turned out that the frogs from the lake kept me awake for a while, but when I let go of the fact that they were not singing in sync I slept soon after .... breakcore frog lullaby ...<br /><br /><br /><br />20th may<br />Walked up to the most northwestern point in the usa today, awesome pacific ocean again .... earlier on, on my way there I did not really like the vibe from the indian village that was located in the corner of the peninsula ... You had to pass trough their area to reach the tip of the peninsula and in a way the village had a troubled feel .... even though there was a huge fishing community, the atmosphere was strange ... as if they were relying on the visitors to pay their access fee but they only liked the money and not the people ... (you needed a pass to go trough the area) so most people go and buy these passes, and buy some more shit along the way in the stores selling these passes .. I decided to play stupid .. I was not gonna stay there anyway .... After spotting some great eagles in the harbour, <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWyciBiwXhvBJysKa976FkICTyHWm1zE2G-7al2S3C11RYknn2Qcu-zSJSDsJY6FGz9ZKHJLdSGNVKODAZue4GSSu6Go6sFe_w2XImVoM-ykP0Yt5jUGA1Vm8JVuQMRu_Ah0s13g/s1600/DSC07018.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWyciBiwXhvBJysKa976FkICTyHWm1zE2G-7al2S3C11RYknn2Qcu-zSJSDsJY6FGz9ZKHJLdSGNVKODAZue4GSSu6Go6sFe_w2XImVoM-ykP0Yt5jUGA1Vm8JVuQMRu_Ah0s13g/s200/DSC07018.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618920366186939410" /></a><br /><br />which was a treat I went east again ... I decided to start heading for seattle, and when darkness fell I found myself looking for a spot and after leaving some campsites behind that were ok, but not really what I wanted, I saw this great public parking ... really a big field with no one there .... ok .... I 'll take it, for free ... ... and slept great with sweet Indian dreams heeja hoo heeja heee ..<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjT6MJT8dtblE2DNlsL4w2_JbhV9KGAHNwZLwDoZvh07iZNy0RQHO8hkkzS4G9tcEicgBbjSiKwHM3xRRGMGSo6XXWigNZdzf3OZBO8Guep2SVv7e23MIia5WHpHO6GT4I8Alv-w/s1600/DSC07081.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjT6MJT8dtblE2DNlsL4w2_JbhV9KGAHNwZLwDoZvh07iZNy0RQHO8hkkzS4G9tcEicgBbjSiKwHM3xRRGMGSo6XXWigNZdzf3OZBO8Guep2SVv7e23MIia5WHpHO6GT4I8Alv-w/s200/DSC07081.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618919629209291314" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />21st may <br /><br />So today I went back to civilisation, bigtime. As I headed into seattle there was a special feeling coming over me, what a city, very friendly and green .. great atmosphere. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0-PUiWvdRK-B4siJFRpz1xreDY23o-db_ZTmigcq2VMk_IAN8HO6vri8wjJy8owl2dyGlEJP9hkz3oqizFrD04cC-v8sjMFHBGeHK2CbF4FH5FqWgcdNF6Z3ujYnoTudpBEJoA/s1600/DSC07095.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 115px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0-PUiWvdRK-B4siJFRpz1xreDY23o-db_ZTmigcq2VMk_IAN8HO6vri8wjJy8owl2dyGlEJP9hkz3oqizFrD04cC-v8sjMFHBGeHK2CbF4FH5FqWgcdNF6Z3ujYnoTudpBEJoA/s200/DSC07095.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618920912987820514" /></a><br /><br />First parked the bus safe in a garage and then put on my walking shoes, I did the tourist thingie by hopping on the monorail and got off at the needle ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgENHnAHMb-QyOK9CxFimw2fWxE0AmledWoMsrPw1UCCo9r_vUCm8kyGDbPkvXqIgc-gMeftBL0g3Ar0TshyphenhyphenXcX63LzJpE3MKkPJBePSBW4TsyIXmZG81knXU3AFLN_6yPsJrzqWg/s1600/DSC07112.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgENHnAHMb-QyOK9CxFimw2fWxE0AmledWoMsrPw1UCCo9r_vUCm8kyGDbPkvXqIgc-gMeftBL0g3Ar0TshyphenhyphenXcX63LzJpE3MKkPJBePSBW4TsyIXmZG81knXU3AFLN_6yPsJrzqWg/s200/DSC07112.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618920914891735282" /></a><br /><br />made a ton of pictures and then made my way downtown for more sightseeing, found the library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, it just needed some more open space surrounding it I thought .. but hey ... space ismoney these days .... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQzXHeJDled8CHisJvB7iR7TMyaBHzfEe2ay7DdlCUTe-vmHtemnasaOAaFkz9pdbl3k7Bzv4WD7yegW_Bd1-ZnpEVTpAVhqDf2ivKrDor977nf2591FQ5B04zYv3cPzx0haOKUg/s1600/DSC07163.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQzXHeJDled8CHisJvB7iR7TMyaBHzfEe2ay7DdlCUTe-vmHtemnasaOAaFkz9pdbl3k7Bzv4WD7yegW_Bd1-ZnpEVTpAVhqDf2ivKrDor977nf2591FQ5B04zYv3cPzx0haOKUg/s200/DSC07163.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618920924143912690" /></a><br /><br />had a stroll inside and then did not know what to do anymore, this was downtown, and I felt lost with all these expensive stores, restaurants and cafes. As I walked back to the parking garage I saw a bus that headed for the U-district and that U- was short for University district, and that is where I wanted to go, in the guide books they all write these great things about this part of Seattle but it was too long a walk from downtown so here was the answer .. i hopped on the bus (busses here even have a system that allows you to take your bike along) and the driver was a great guy, he let me off right at the corner of where a street festival was taking place ... with my nose in the butter so to say ... Had a great evening there, found amazing shoes in a second hand shop ... I swear I wasn't looking for any but these were just perfect and waiting for me ... after some great chinese food and some unexpected compliments and ego boost from some woman who were smoking outside a bar (too bad they were smoking .. ha ha ) This time I used the -bus in the garage- as an excuse to take off .. but if turned around ... uuuh "I could pick up my bus tomorrow early in the morning, but that would mean I have nowhere to sleep tonight ?) .. might try that at some point ...<br /><br />I made my way back to the parking lot as I needed to pick up the bus before midnight ... Then made my way out of town, said goodbye to the skyline and its twinkling lights and not soon after I had left Seattle I pulled off at some business park, drove all the way to the back in the dark and found out the next day that it was a perfect spot that I would not have driven to during daylight, but in the dark, I was sort of guided there ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbrbFsbkR_3hicbUJ8wTJtfYiQCnnBD2yFOvtKG1EQCPwyrdV99-SNpbRzAF10qwF-f73f0WXVzBCYhbO6I9mGhg7Rz9Vvh1srI73l7NV9NHHJ9D_cjmei-EpQ1fGqzPDAuBMAog/s1600/DSC07185.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbrbFsbkR_3hicbUJ8wTJtfYiQCnnBD2yFOvtKG1EQCPwyrdV99-SNpbRzAF10qwF-f73f0WXVzBCYhbO6I9mGhg7Rz9Vvh1srI73l7NV9NHHJ9D_cjmei-EpQ1fGqzPDAuBMAog/s200/DSC07185.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618921687789089314" /></a><br /><br />it was quiet and served me just right after the busy Seattle dayout ......<br /><br /><br /><br />22nd may <br />Finally it was time to head for yellowstone, the long awaited part of the journey was about to begin ... going east .... but later that day I had a change of mind, there was this great Roosevelt Lake area with the Coulee dam that I had seen on the map, and it was not far away .. earlier on I had thought of going there but in the end I decided not to go, I mean I have seen dams before .. and artificial lakes .. but yes, you guess it .. for some reason I ended up taking a detour to go there in the end, .. and boy, it was great, the landscape along the way was amazing, canyons, lakes .. big skies ... yes .. bring it on ... <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvvDL_hH1Mr-0a1XIZCNTGQSJ3ya8td12CF4M6BqlkYmZJrBSNiDHFiX5XHkUw3HGwhjpKUlzTIazTBeEMyndtZ4Uo3BrEE5corPsSn_NNhyUL9ys7sUXUwmTXLuzld0PXvRVIOA/s1600/DSC07237.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvvDL_hH1Mr-0a1XIZCNTGQSJ3ya8td12CF4M6BqlkYmZJrBSNiDHFiX5XHkUw3HGwhjpKUlzTIazTBeEMyndtZ4Uo3BrEE5corPsSn_NNhyUL9ys7sUXUwmTXLuzld0PXvRVIOA/s200/DSC07237.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618922369264350274" /></a><br /><br />Checked out the dam and Electric City (now that is a cool name ..) and spotted a national forest area not far from the dam, you can sleep for free in the national forests as long as you are away from official campsites and paved roads, so I went there, into the hills and Indian territory and I had in mind to take a small ferry across the colombia river the next day to take me back on route to yellowstone. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNEFI0F7Y60XCSN_s-zXAmMyX0pXY50waU9me8_pgr52ZvL9Rt8SBDOHZQtd6fN2HrQujP4-Q8sM73r6K2lvk9sZq6_10u3Bk7bBOq2CI8DtQuUNer-DK7K4mdq7AmkG8YX0KgUw/s1600/DSC07262.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNEFI0F7Y60XCSN_s-zXAmMyX0pXY50waU9me8_pgr52ZvL9Rt8SBDOHZQtd6fN2HrQujP4-Q8sM73r6K2lvk9sZq6_10u3Bk7bBOq2CI8DtQuUNer-DK7K4mdq7AmkG8YX0KgUw/s200/DSC07262.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618922360977976242" /></a><br /><br />The spot I found that night had an amazing view as you can see and it was a joy to see darkness take over here .... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF8amEKCWVPEATQrPvDqLhKHaBcyastMxjZ-k5258TEYeNg9OfTR6KwlfQLFa9LoIYj6tXc-wSg46EKfaU4w_WcHbr3rRn8XGbMphWvoB9Ybgm9NVNeO6MyEFjanBr_pF6gXGYDQ/s1600/DSC07297.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF8amEKCWVPEATQrPvDqLhKHaBcyastMxjZ-k5258TEYeNg9OfTR6KwlfQLFa9LoIYj6tXc-wSg46EKfaU4w_WcHbr3rRn8XGbMphWvoB9Ybgm9NVNeO6MyEFjanBr_pF6gXGYDQ/s200/DSC07297.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618922381916472610" /></a><br /><br /><br />23rd may <br /><br />the ferry across the colombia river ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQMHWl8SUOL6mw859y3FXXdxD6_TRzbSoZtMPy2xe1M0r7rDeJLfL6UBJa3SuVXS1WqpnwKA-viz4ylj4RpiNak2MnwObDi9qT046NypIX4nKFwAVsjzAYfbyBKbQKpUBg0Rtudg/s1600/DSC07307.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQMHWl8SUOL6mw859y3FXXdxD6_TRzbSoZtMPy2xe1M0r7rDeJLfL6UBJa3SuVXS1WqpnwKA-viz4ylj4RpiNak2MnwObDi9qT046NypIX4nKFwAVsjzAYfbyBKbQKpUBg0Rtudg/s200/DSC07307.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618923098258515442" /></a><br /><br />Almost turned around to drive the long way back, but then the ferry popped up from around the corner of the river<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjID5dOB-mukI_Sbiq01S-7TAeHMzIeAQ1zVttOoBnY7pO9ajWr85jGpthehcfLj3MMz50jo1X8vYBnR2eXunEgXTjXpb2OiEvIPEI-rWLvm9JeyugezRBylQWyE7tdAT823ekBuA/s1600/DSC07308.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjID5dOB-mukI_Sbiq01S-7TAeHMzIeAQ1zVttOoBnY7pO9ajWr85jGpthehcfLj3MMz50jo1X8vYBnR2eXunEgXTjXpb2OiEvIPEI-rWLvm9JeyugezRBylQWyE7tdAT823ekBuA/s200/DSC07308.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618922862932514082" /></a><br /><br />yes .. here it was, and it was exciting to get on that thing ... it was small, and in a way I was glad there was no wind .. On my way out of the lake area I drove trough more (small) canyons and headed east towards Yellowstone. Visited a tourist trap town .. they have big signs up with : amazing mine tours, or historic old town etc ,.. but it is mostly run down stuff ... went to a dusty museum that gave some insights about the mining that had gone on there, it was gold digging country after all, but it was a cheesy exhibition ... or better ... dusty .. justy like the folks working there .. kiling their days there .. literally ... <br /><br />As night fell I went towards a campsite in a small town that I passed trough, campsite was deserted, but looked ok and quiet, but then I noticed the area behind the campsite looked even better .. right by the river and I found a disused railbridge, and some bushes that were perfect to hide behind as I would probably get some visit from the local sheriff if they would see me camp out there (right behind the campsite) ... <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGKTd6gAYsZkcOZtYTOKZNlx9C3hgFQLxEof8_10Xvq0UmywNxTTiOvgKdc73xxh8uf4ARAWV6ZnsKQsNz0CsTLlsXGv51_rk2foS-Kl-ZedMdn2J26TYm2NwrJYHSfHSSnZ3F6g/s1600/DSC07374.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGKTd6gAYsZkcOZtYTOKZNlx9C3hgFQLxEof8_10Xvq0UmywNxTTiOvgKdc73xxh8uf4ARAWV6ZnsKQsNz0CsTLlsXGv51_rk2foS-Kl-ZedMdn2J26TYm2NwrJYHSfHSSnZ3F6g/s200/DSC07374.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618923849909998178" /></a><br /><br />it took some manouvring but it was perfect, woke up once because of the rain and thinking I needed to move the bus as the river could swell and flood the area where I was ... but soon let go of that crazy thought and went back to sleep.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNNMRBNtIRoIh3OpU7m3sDCapugpLjHcqxjz9RuSNhIzQy6KjE6FsA_q88XAr1I32-zub9go6fQtEAMgjNXSXVSyBZdYbYC4Rg4m0BohvvbLtRw04uTUDSNOF02hUpbLgaQPgZOQ/s1600/DSC07370.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNNMRBNtIRoIh3OpU7m3sDCapugpLjHcqxjz9RuSNhIzQy6KjE6FsA_q88XAr1I32-zub9go6fQtEAMgjNXSXVSyBZdYbYC4Rg4m0BohvvbLtRw04uTUDSNOF02hUpbLgaQPgZOQ/s200/DSC07370.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618923676551916258" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhavaJhepOBygR3El1MPaq-0VkFDvEo16QL7mFelPQIUQEBnRgYyHNwMrll1SHu83Xu_EmZYsfSPtbhiyHQkLl-WOIKq_CoTGboQ3YDNYfFUdPZ2d3USxCZU36VxmSEpd3wAvr0vw/s1600/DSC07373.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhavaJhepOBygR3El1MPaq-0VkFDvEo16QL7mFelPQIUQEBnRgYyHNwMrll1SHu83Xu_EmZYsfSPtbhiyHQkLl-WOIKq_CoTGboQ3YDNYfFUdPZ2d3USxCZU36VxmSEpd3wAvr0vw/s200/DSC07373.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618923670028817170" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />and that was week three .... on to yellowstone ..... via a place called potosi ...Paul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-41871929516385563162011-06-14T22:29:00.013+02:002011-06-14T23:41:09.692+02:00on the road 2011 - usa - westcoast week 210th may <br /><br />This was the day it was all starting for me .... I was gonna hit the road all by myself ... First me and my parents made our way back from Yosemite, which was a nice drive... Dropped mum and dad at the airport in san fransisco, one more emotional goodbye, I guess we've had quite a few this past year. All for the dive into the great unknown, filling up your days with new smells and sights, turning knowledge into wisdom and gathering some new knowledge along the way, it's evolution that counts, instead of running to stand still ... .. <br /><br />So start all engines, lock your doors, seat belts on, 55 miles is 88km per hour .. no speeding here .. here we go .... First I went to haight ashbury for a cup of tea and some vinyl searching, ended up with a mint copy of U2's lp Boy, with the "altered" sleeve design. A picture of a young boys face was the design for all other countries, but this was not possible in free and brave america kaaaaa ..... so they changed it's photo for the sleeve to a morphed thingie of the faces of the four band members .... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuRpredi-1yxhkrvJTpSbQAcXlIDpbdzfWRm94zPmNR2EWylZx3i-UQ5J6WAASWFpnk90RSfiKmTTCknUIFvcxjHv25qSWQ5O3ourZQBny4etrAMBsBZOCEbe8Red5YdIguHoLAg/s1600/DSC06350.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuRpredi-1yxhkrvJTpSbQAcXlIDpbdzfWRm94zPmNR2EWylZx3i-UQ5J6WAASWFpnk90RSfiKmTTCknUIFvcxjHv25qSWQ5O3ourZQBny4etrAMBsBZOCEbe8Red5YdIguHoLAg/s200/DSC06350.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618176316235859890" /></a><br /><br />After the record hunting and landing on earth from saying goodbye to my folks, and really realising that it had all begun ... it was time to hit the road, on to sausalito, just outside san fransisco. There I had spotted my first free and comfy parking spot a few days earlier. It is located right next to the first houseboats you see when you come off the highway and enter sausolito after you crossed the golden gate bridge. There is a small cluster of houseboats, or what looks like them in some instances, cause it is really messy looking and if you dont know better, some look as if they could sink any day ... anyway, right next to the last "hippy" colony sort of thingie, there was a small parking area, right by the water. That was gonna be my spot for night one, along with the guy that was sleeping it rough style, a few meters away from me, out of sight for anybody as he was behind some big logs of wood and tucked away underneath some blankets. I guess he had a full tummy as earlier that day I had left him the cans of tuna and some corn that was left from my parents and since I dont eat that stuff, he was a good "candidate" <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm2OzBY8UhvCeVPyUiRo0LCqwEMedooKbcETzBvpc6rrSuG09OBNC9JNAkA02GoSRQ-kgqy4Dgi6-5kQapycvz9Sd4osNLrBkNJJuLCRg28jtZBHoDVmPuh0poR5hjrFBcxp3cew/s1600/DSC09470.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm2OzBY8UhvCeVPyUiRo0LCqwEMedooKbcETzBvpc6rrSuG09OBNC9JNAkA02GoSRQ-kgqy4Dgi6-5kQapycvz9Sd4osNLrBkNJJuLCRg28jtZBHoDVmPuh0poR5hjrFBcxp3cew/s200/DSC09470.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618177055639024114" /></a><br /><br />Did some much needed re-organising of the content of the bus, stuffed all the books away inside the clothing compartments, and i was glad i found some room by the gas and water tanks, so with those out of the way I could easily fold down the bench, to make it into a bed for the night, without having to deal with a full stack of things, now it was a done deal in a matter of a minute. Then it was time to warm up the pasta my mum had left me, and have an early night, I was exhausted ... <br /><br /><br />11th may <br /><br />Woke up all fresh and ready to go, it was a blue sky and straight away I made a major change of plans, after all it was day one, and from what I had seen the past copuple of days I was not gonna go on the major highway north, and slightly east towards reno, on the way to lassen national park as "planned" originally. Instead I decided to follow the amazing coast driving on the 1 and 101 north. This pacific northwest coast, you can not imagine what it looks like, especially with the spring colours and the sun that played along. So, highway 1 and 101 it was from then on ... on to redwood national park, and up north .. maybe ...or cut inlands to lassen np ... ? <br />After a great drive along the magnificent pacific ocean I found this amazing campsite where I had a very nice and huge campfire and peaceful night, even though I had to pay 20 dollars, I got a lot of "inner rest" so to say ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNmREcUkm8lMtE5y1Bw7gaMhKohehAVakmpSRro1cHyH3ZaTjjmPJ94Zfa-4fAmj54ZvNpQpms7q7X3eriiOKa4FASGjJKXfjwylnnD8zbau1eooRtgZLdYOAAvSINYjPK-FzQuQ/s1600/DSC06379.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNmREcUkm8lMtE5y1Bw7gaMhKohehAVakmpSRro1cHyH3ZaTjjmPJ94Zfa-4fAmj54ZvNpQpms7q7X3eriiOKa4FASGjJKXfjwylnnD8zbau1eooRtgZLdYOAAvSINYjPK-FzQuQ/s200/DSC06379.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618187777792682130" /></a><br /><br /> This place also meant sleeping upstairs on the bed that sleeps like a dream ... unreal for a small camper van like this, the bed is modified with a proper matrass and wow ... the freshness from all outside air coming in trough the ventilation nets that you only have in the canvas that makes up the fold up roofs outsides all around. And the sound of the sea, making me fall asleep in an instant ...<br /><br />no cops chasing me away, a nice spot for a fire, loads of wood to be scavenged in the forest right next to the campsite ... it was bang on by the sea with a nice beachline to be explored just before the sun was to set, and found a nice chair ... took some running for the pic .... ha ha ,..<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh35-She52kCs30fZzD7Btw5Sw9rvtgEPpUV5ElpswcxD9mCffVcHgMx3QA349v2YP-HMYE-570ujPG5H6jFhcAp6NNQt_oK3IscIgLrRjv2DxFTk1FMMqd-XY7_ejDFuXxT_bVvg/s1600/DSC06390.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh35-She52kCs30fZzD7Btw5Sw9rvtgEPpUV5ElpswcxD9mCffVcHgMx3QA349v2YP-HMYE-570ujPG5H6jFhcAp6NNQt_oK3IscIgLrRjv2DxFTk1FMMqd-XY7_ejDFuXxT_bVvg/s200/DSC06390.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618188304948692370" /></a><br /><br /><br />no cops chasing me away, a nice spot for a fire, loads of wood to be scavenged in the forest right next to the campsite ... it was bang on by the sea with a nice beachline to be explored just before the sun was to set, and found a nice chair ... took some running for the pic .... ha ha ,..<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicA5aw6ZF46FNfg0Bm6Jwp8cDtT6jAhlxUZer8V1VF0_DO2d8Wt0O_FN-0RXo1nn6RvolGBgbx-Uoy7kpd-A9xl82Zm5B3lAicXBjAjxB4s5jDXEAUC1fJjALoNmnQovOEkQUHCA/s1600/DSC06431.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicA5aw6ZF46FNfg0Bm6Jwp8cDtT6jAhlxUZer8V1VF0_DO2d8Wt0O_FN-0RXo1nn6RvolGBgbx-Uoy7kpd-A9xl82Zm5B3lAicXBjAjxB4s5jDXEAUC1fJjALoNmnQovOEkQUHCA/s200/DSC06431.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618188318875846866" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6-NgHab2APwJrfA86lxW2Ob1oXHkjZPsS0I9Xqreu2pgjcSOLAJTVUmuN4IK4Uj1yPKh9R4HnHueKmN1WJKruHS-V7eY197LH3m9k0q_lj27JWrJXTUGEEOamLJe_j3e-f-NsFA/s1600/DSC06451.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6-NgHab2APwJrfA86lxW2Ob1oXHkjZPsS0I9Xqreu2pgjcSOLAJTVUmuN4IK4Uj1yPKh9R4HnHueKmN1WJKruHS-V7eY197LH3m9k0q_lj27JWrJXTUGEEOamLJe_j3e-f-NsFA/s200/DSC06451.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618188323847847570" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />12th may <br /><br />today was all about the redwoods and the avenue of the giants, huge trees along the way, so impressive, making you feel like a little tiny thing compared to these monsters that are some 2000 years old. The camping was expensive in the park, as usual ... So I decided to continue a bit inland after the point where highway 1 had connected to highway 101 again, here was the huge jedediah smith forest, that was a national forest, this meant that you can roam around, and find a spot as long as you are not too close to an official camping. Ideal ... went to the ranger station to ask for some tips, and boy did I get some ... I made my way up a dirt road, into the forest and up the hill, decided to leave the first "spots" alone, as they were a bit too close to civilisation and made my way further up untill I found a spot right by the river without any possible room for any neighbours, perfect ... Build a huge fire again, by now I had a full set of clothes for campfires, the smell was too much to wear during the day, but at night ... things changed ... and after that nightly intermezzo this time it was not the sea but the sound of the river that made me fall asleep in an instant after I had once again, occupied the upstairs bed.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_oU2jeizcjPcekdXhN_JxZQtnccjS76Lqp2gNooEcSJ1kbQmykAuZsfRJ3alsYnWcR2H9oc74DfGA9UvFUmCiBHsx7g30lnRI5vW3-I66B6Xwh23K_u6rd3C8h-wazEm4XyOwbA/s1600/DSC06525.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_oU2jeizcjPcekdXhN_JxZQtnccjS76Lqp2gNooEcSJ1kbQmykAuZsfRJ3alsYnWcR2H9oc74DfGA9UvFUmCiBHsx7g30lnRI5vW3-I66B6Xwh23K_u6rd3C8h-wazEm4XyOwbA/s200/DSC06525.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618189344861371922" /></a><br /><br /><br />13th may<br /><br />Decided to stay in the forest, it was amazing here. Did some more wood hunting but could not complete the entire route along the mountain, as there was a gap that was too deep and big right in the middle of the road, making it impossible for the bus to clear .. ah well .. it was ok, I had spotted my coming nights spot along the way a little while down the hill,bang on a bend in the road, giving you a clear amazing view of the mountains that embrace the jedediah smith forest. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrqQfUqxfWDfrTEU6o4Ob0A4bPh0cw3a-JBJvqqjEvldaQYeFrKNTvzVveAIcLUwzCJ6QU0Kg3xRaYSdHv4AXHjpQ5wDW7co6gUKJT7HGxhjclYEa8GM36XxSrLVxbRyDwY9005Q/s1600/DSC06549.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrqQfUqxfWDfrTEU6o4Ob0A4bPh0cw3a-JBJvqqjEvldaQYeFrKNTvzVveAIcLUwzCJ6QU0Kg3xRaYSdHv4AXHjpQ5wDW7co6gUKJT7HGxhjclYEa8GM36XxSrLVxbRyDwY9005Q/s200/DSC06549.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618190101710686914" /></a><br /><br /><br />Build myself a nice kickass campfire and made a nice office with a view ... music maestro please ... although it remains strange to have your headphones on while there is this amazing campfire that is making its own set of noises besides the occasional owl that was going off .... it was another great night after a relaxing day ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht-hd0UHPkjWkHEsEhntNZqCINJy6JJAPGo8bCRVv5mPwA6EirYpu3Mu3vJ8J7UIVTm5Os9xCYED7i3mQd3mtbz3hp6xdKnSwRUg4iz_qa0Wu8n9JUjG86iG9_5XLzjOcVpyTEyQ/s1600/DSC06557.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht-hd0UHPkjWkHEsEhntNZqCINJy6JJAPGo8bCRVv5mPwA6EirYpu3Mu3vJ8J7UIVTm5Os9xCYED7i3mQd3mtbz3hp6xdKnSwRUg4iz_qa0Wu8n9JUjG86iG9_5XLzjOcVpyTEyQ/s200/DSC06557.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618189823908865346" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />14th may <br /><br />Today I left the forest behind, time to head north. Along the coast again, small winding roads, going up and down the hills. Made my way to the drive trough tree, a huge sequoia tree with a man made hole so that you can drive your car trough it. Paid 5 bucks entree fee with the guy looking at the car and saying yes uuuh I think he will just fit trough uuuh maybe uuuuuh yes i think so ..... only to find out that the bus was too big to fit underneath the tree... grrrr ... tree still looked amazing though, one of the huge sequoias along the way. When looking for a place to sleep, it turned out that this was gonna be a bit more tricky to find myself a good spot ... as it was an area with only one real road and no ways leading off it, the in a bend where traffic slowed down there was a small parking area next to a closed and deserted coffee shop and from there I spotted this, on the other side, which turned out to be an exciting spot, great ... the ingenious cooking pot grabber did not what it was supposed to do when I was clearing the water from the freshly cooked pasta, 500 gr pasta down the bushes ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGxbBER1ZDL9ESyTYOmyvmgwovQakiVTbcrd8gobWPmT9Vhkiy4Wz75ln1nQ83jHTGbrKp-g9zGrTKCNp2mNSlg-ptHgiAh-5GJR5MxKUtQJ3ACoMgN7uSO5s75eSQG4UxitoNg/s1600/DSC06486.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGxbBER1ZDL9ESyTYOmyvmgwovQakiVTbcrd8gobWPmT9Vhkiy4Wz75ln1nQ83jHTGbrKp-g9zGrTKCNp2mNSlg-ptHgiAh-5GJR5MxKUtQJ3ACoMgN7uSO5s75eSQG4UxitoNg/s200/DSC06486.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618190426064050834" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />15th may <br /><br />Did a lot of miles today, finally ... after some days of slowly making my way up, today was a nice change. The coast was mesmerizing along the way. Also as I made my way into Oregon it was a joy to see the landscape fill up with lakes in all shapes, the population was definitely geared up for water. Most cars had the option to pull huge boats, or had big canoes on top, the outdoors was very much alive here. It turned out to be hard to find a spot today, so after some exploring in Newport Beach's harbour without any luck as everywhere they had signs up telling you it was forbidden to sleep there. Then I spotted a police man and decided to simply ask him, he should know ... . He refered me to some logging roads after you get out of town. Ok, that was an option but as I made my way to the outskirts of town I spotted my first Wallmart. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhacmrkGNEzMpwzvLpSD3z5RaA0w9m4Pc_k9fMTwx3l8H8Nld2MnkXbCof29Z8hSVMAt8kdpg5RliCibknJiPDuU_7NCbedCM9u087Y9E1n66IpZzN4VG245p52oLM3Dh9ixw7Jqg/s1600/DSC06667.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhacmrkGNEzMpwzvLpSD3z5RaA0w9m4Pc_k9fMTwx3l8H8Nld2MnkXbCof29Z8hSVMAt8kdpg5RliCibknJiPDuU_7NCbedCM9u087Y9E1n66IpZzN4VG245p52oLM3Dh9ixw7Jqg/s200/DSC06667.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618191016200716690" /></a><br /><br />This meant a sleeping place as wallmart allowes rv's to spend the night on their parking lots.. It was not my preferred option, but when I saw I could hide in a quiet corner behind some of the garden stuff they were selling, it was ok. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAYOi4OLW3QKUdXMATX7F3vGSdyDxv_waL4P8XRUJqe-mdCmcrpozvycU_xqFnrESNe1pOJlYA4GPfqtPek87wuGbVe3jYSNyiyrPRUxc7Cd-D47ZQwxH-g94un0uTviBRvzqMLw/s1600/DSC06667.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAYOi4OLW3QKUdXMATX7F3vGSdyDxv_waL4P8XRUJqe-mdCmcrpozvycU_xqFnrESNe1pOJlYA4GPfqtPek87wuGbVe3jYSNyiyrPRUxc7Cd-D47ZQwxH-g94un0uTviBRvzqMLw/s200/DSC06667.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618191010778473778" /></a><br /><br />Sometimes these parking lots are used by the local youth as a hang out and then you dont get any sleep ... But tonight that was no problem .. And next morning I would have a toilet close by ... sometimes wallmart rules.<br /><br /><br /><br />16th may <br /><br />Making my way north along the coast was a joy again, the sun was out and it was astonishing to see what water has done with the rocks along the way. Cape Kiwanda had a big parking right by the sea, it also has a big ramp allowing cars to get access to the beach so they can launch their boats into the sea. When I arrived there it was quite clear this was a bit of a magical place. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNriCkrtf2-DArnoln-E28udIT2ivXcQG9KMG5LrhbelC_Qlzlfbyn0_2JGGldIC2MPdApIy0y_tVOe-Xip7rXBvg9uNSn-6GYk4jJBQ8pHbGewcc_jSl4QIWj4WYQJAJBaAwfQ/s1600/DSC06755.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNriCkrtf2-DArnoln-E28udIT2ivXcQG9KMG5LrhbelC_Qlzlfbyn0_2JGGldIC2MPdApIy0y_tVOe-Xip7rXBvg9uNSn-6GYk4jJBQ8pHbGewcc_jSl4QIWj4WYQJAJBaAwfQ/s200/DSC06755.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618191676660559538" /></a><br /><br />With on the right hand side a huge rock heading out into sea with at its land-edge a huge sand dune that could be climbed, I thought it was much more interesting to get into the rock that heads out into the water to see how the beach looked from there. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqJIhqdOe-d1Idah0LG5dFDRZ9TeOppI9_UNNHqhwkPw9hRDJ1vf8UJxYet_zzuHg_8gahPgB6ATzwIapfFKa8TybiPtOyJ3P0-KBR-YWDID244m6eP8-fH9C7Av5DFavCJnMCKw/s1600/DSC06673.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqJIhqdOe-d1Idah0LG5dFDRZ9TeOppI9_UNNHqhwkPw9hRDJ1vf8UJxYet_zzuHg_8gahPgB6ATzwIapfFKa8TybiPtOyJ3P0-KBR-YWDID244m6eP8-fH9C7Av5DFavCJnMCKw/s200/DSC06673.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618192299157699634" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_kFByIlZcUt9OOsAKFcW3v6dl97KJ2RNhKJU5Q-Svk7NnYYvptVLul1rtq-CxtwRthnmHX0SZcG0yRaztcXN5MZPDcD4kKmEcSpS6DST_cNtiEiKDv2xXBj6lz8Kh0cjzX747MQ/s1600/DSC06675.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_kFByIlZcUt9OOsAKFcW3v6dl97KJ2RNhKJU5Q-Svk7NnYYvptVLul1rtq-CxtwRthnmHX0SZcG0yRaztcXN5MZPDcD4kKmEcSpS6DST_cNtiEiKDv2xXBj6lz8Kh0cjzX747MQ/s200/DSC06675.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618192304124766770" /></a><br /><br /><br />And I was not dissappointed, boy was it beautifull, I actually spend my entire afternoon there, even jumping into the ice cold sea, ha, 2 minutes at the most, longer was impossible as I was literally freezing, my legs were all tingly and I was glad there was a small camping not far from the parking where I could go to catch a warm shower, felt a different being when that was done ! Then made my dinner, let all of my pasta fall straight into the sand when I wanted to get rid of the water after it had cooked .. fuck me, secodn time that happened .. ... did it all over again and was extra carefull, succes .. in the end I could eat right by the sea, about one hour before the sun was to set. Then I spend the rest of the evening in awe as on one side the sun was going down with a fantastic colour pallette spread out over the ocean and the rocky coast. And on the other side the moon was coming up, almost full ... right above the hill ... picture perfect !<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8n6JuD89BBkhnP5ZKpQLO8r967mdR8fUNiz1FI1e0A-MiKI4kWse7AvQM-D-NH9IcEd0fVj-ljJzSfB7zc2_dU7F1oYU6L8CraYVaGhcj8lvzS-OsbnFL5WNVag9d0z-7ia5A2Q/s1600/DSC06683.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8n6JuD89BBkhnP5ZKpQLO8r967mdR8fUNiz1FI1e0A-MiKI4kWse7AvQM-D-NH9IcEd0fVj-ljJzSfB7zc2_dU7F1oYU6L8CraYVaGhcj8lvzS-OsbnFL5WNVag9d0z-7ia5A2Q/s200/DSC06683.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618192307628286050" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Jk5AA9Kf78vSanB5Hrr3ZOBOBy4l78JL0m45CdsoryD36ni0QgbpUdwxCMBPtso_mDC2buFfYrDv-YEgxAzp6wlLQnTw-CzZCNpDutVDi11lsS6uGLIhMNNCQk0SWwtCymBh8A/s1600/DSC06694.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Jk5AA9Kf78vSanB5Hrr3ZOBOBy4l78JL0m45CdsoryD36ni0QgbpUdwxCMBPtso_mDC2buFfYrDv-YEgxAzp6wlLQnTw-CzZCNpDutVDi11lsS6uGLIhMNNCQk0SWwtCymBh8A/s200/DSC06694.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618192312576873250" /></a><br /><br />Slept like a baby at the parking lot, some locals had told me it was ok, ignore the signs and simply sleep there ... ha ha ok .... ciao4now ....Paul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-67502680168019247622011-06-06T20:06:00.009+02:002011-06-06T20:38:07.957+02:00on the road 2011 - usa - westcoast 5th may - 10th mayIt was the 4th may when I left for Brussels, I had planned to arrive around midnight at the train station as I had to take an early train to Paris the next morning. It was impossible to reach Brussels by train so early, so I went there the night before my actual departure hoping to find a somewhat comfy waiting area, one that you normally find at airports and some trainstations, but i guess not this one. Little did I know that the area where you could wait during the night inside the station did actually not exist at night time. It was closed from 12 midnight and opened again early in the morning, offcourse, belgium logics ...<br /><br />So without any sleep I got on the 8am train to Paris, arrived at the airport smoothly and went to check in my luggage, only to find that the transport system for the luggage had broken down. After half an hour they collected the luggage in a big cart and told us to go ahead, it would all be ok .... You can probably guess what never got to san fransisco that day ! The fact that my suitcase would now arrive one day later meant that I had to sleep somewhere else than my tent, as that was inside my suitcase that was still in Paris. Luckily the airline gave us an allowance of 130 dollars to spend on things we needed as a result of the missing suitcase. So I booked myself a luxury hotelroom by the beach, and close to the rv park where my parents had parked their bus. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAL0pt8Fc39nZ-iZd6S_5oQMLd4VuWe7UkO3R83SotfeZgMDxxJ_zUuRaBpuqOYylcHv_sUEiY6A1mzCwCl0VWoKr-jCAuWA0czvYAofQoQDe3BVJTl1XjrQIj_WiUpzvJt5MV6g/s1600/DSC06114.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAL0pt8Fc39nZ-iZd6S_5oQMLd4VuWe7UkO3R83SotfeZgMDxxJ_zUuRaBpuqOYylcHv_sUEiY6A1mzCwCl0VWoKr-jCAuWA0czvYAofQoQDe3BVJTl1XjrQIj_WiUpzvJt5MV6g/s200/DSC06114.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615171323034599730" /></a><br /><br />But again it had been necessary to show some persistance at the airline desk as not every one got to hear the rule they had about the 130 dollar allowance, neither were they given a comp toiletry bag with usual stuff like tootbrush and shaver etc but this one also contained a plain nice white tshirt, so I was all ok when I left the desk and went on to go see my parents, who must have been waiting for almost one hour.<br /><br />The choice for a good hotel turned out to have been a good choice and ideal, with a great breakfast the next day although it was still hard to eat due to the excitment of what was finally unfolding itself ... . <br /><br />It was nice to see my parents again, I guess I felt very fullfilled in seeing them have completed the panamerican highway, from argentina to san fransisco, more than 20.000 kilomters and on the road 6 months. I guess I felt proud too! Very proud actually, because it is quite something to travel together for such a long time in such a compressed space. I mean it is a vw transporter, and well equipped, actually pretty nifty in design as it has everything you could possibly need on the road: it's a tdi 4 motion, with foldout roof with double bed that sleeps like a dream, the bench has an ingenious slide and flip mechanism so it folds out to a double bed too. <br /><br />Stealth mode camping requires me to sleep below, not allways, but only when far away from civilisation or well hidden from view and bears. It is bear country that I am travelling trough after all. Smiling .... It has a smal sink, a fridge, airconditioning, heater, nifty lights and a cabinet for your pots and pans. Also the clothes can be hidden away in the sides and it really feels like a little home on wheels. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDLBXpLdNuT47VWsMpCf1uUHQKaol-AMoeSoPRB8244rcqlst6dyWF2DE2ip9mLLNkFmOO0wyhQ4BudvMmSPQPtGDlbNZaMqqkAISjncwD2in2gvRQ3m9d6hDDd-1pSdDLyKBAVQ/s1600/DSC06379.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDLBXpLdNuT47VWsMpCf1uUHQKaol-AMoeSoPRB8244rcqlst6dyWF2DE2ip9mLLNkFmOO0wyhQ4BudvMmSPQPtGDlbNZaMqqkAISjncwD2in2gvRQ3m9d6hDDd-1pSdDLyKBAVQ/s200/DSC06379.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615172182082183938" /></a><br /><br />So as me and my parents spend the first days in the san fransisco area we discovered a nice spot in sausalito, a little town just across the city right after you cross the golden gate bridge. There are loads of bigass houseboats, but few remain from as they were in the 60s and 70s but there was still one small area that felt different, and it turned out that the small piece of land in front of the boats, that served as entrance, the parking area was their own property too, so I was welcome to be their guest said a guy called Scout, who came to say hello and wanted to buy my dads bus ... and so this little encounter turned into me finding my first free camp spot. <br /><br />As we drove around the bay area we visited my old dorm that was my house away from home and had soon turned into my home, along with 200 other students among whom loads of foreigners from all over the word. What a wake up call that was ... I am still very gratefull that I have been able to have had that experience, that realy threw off my blinds and woke me up.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr3IDQR1hVFpqyEetf_ptkq4FFlcr1r43yut5W-jjaZWVPdE_72LuFbSNLDfpfE4Anl5ntDsUmAgSykfJL9K2UbTi72F5CTXBJAO_5ATe8IKCx_qFR3hqBJpntw8ebJ9T1ABTgyw/s1600/DSC06117.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr3IDQR1hVFpqyEetf_ptkq4FFlcr1r43yut5W-jjaZWVPdE_72LuFbSNLDfpfE4Anl5ntDsUmAgSykfJL9K2UbTi72F5CTXBJAO_5ATe8IKCx_qFR3hqBJpntw8ebJ9T1ABTgyw/s200/DSC06117.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615173357834044818" /></a><br /><br /><br />So we also went to chabot college, to see the field I played at for their famous soccer team and worked in the bookstore to make some money to spend on my first raves that I was exposed to in 91-92 ha ha .. my house is your house and your house is mine. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1FKVv7MCzVXDVhh7yToeyC7HZFw0RShZHjbdij0hLzeSZCmnENvEDYiE38uiCdUu2CkfIGZibtSPF14RdE-H3ga3LpPKA3siaLldyQZf23Bmlyllp-U-eko-HIPA16BAuCmBsng/s1600/DSC06123.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1FKVv7MCzVXDVhh7yToeyC7HZFw0RShZHjbdij0hLzeSZCmnENvEDYiE38uiCdUu2CkfIGZibtSPF14RdE-H3ga3LpPKA3siaLldyQZf23Bmlyllp-U-eko-HIPA16BAuCmBsng/s200/DSC06123.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615174125857576802" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiBpq7o7gI8XMcAv6fMSnehz28KISIgD3vl_BMXa-uA6H5oYsTUK77xTCKF3FY5-ivlhx_J1PMCctY7H0TRH8w7NyPeN5S6V2Rk-G5b3pJRxgXwohIpyahUEmc7nQ3kN1EGszJkA/s1600/DSC06119.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiBpq7o7gI8XMcAv6fMSnehz28KISIgD3vl_BMXa-uA6H5oYsTUK77xTCKF3FY5-ivlhx_J1PMCctY7H0TRH8w7NyPeN5S6V2Rk-G5b3pJRxgXwohIpyahUEmc7nQ3kN1EGszJkA/s200/DSC06119.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615174114548642098" /></a><br /><br />Chabot college was nice to rediscover, bookstore had moved, canteen was still serving great food and drinks ... Berkely was again nice, and the 49mile drive was too ... including the crookedest street in the world .. lombard street with its 9 bends and my mum and dad driving down it with my dad hanging out of the window, and my mum waving with one hand whilst driving the bus down the street and me photographing it all at the crossing right below, I had gotten out of the bus as we had come down for the first time .. ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKaSNQ-sLEejd1sI-sEps3si7_YkmAeU8vLr8KVfxmjMxVkRlCQdkCfZ1jPh-cqa_2kk3pI-lNIsfd4u9eJ5nO1XCjm2mS84-3T4inh_LqFNQok7BnrmwEFtptRRt32zKZv4OdYw/s1600/DSC06174.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKaSNQ-sLEejd1sI-sEps3si7_YkmAeU8vLr8KVfxmjMxVkRlCQdkCfZ1jPh-cqa_2kk3pI-lNIsfd4u9eJ5nO1XCjm2mS84-3T4inh_LqFNQok7BnrmwEFtptRRt32zKZv4OdYw/s200/DSC06174.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615174952922608066" /></a><br /><br />We also went to dream out loud for my mum ... we went to see yosemite national park, I had booked a spot at one of the few campsites that was open that time of year as there still some snow in the park, so they said ... and so it was ... man, did it snow when we were there .. it must have been my brother sending us some snow flakes and perfectly round and soft hailstones that were perfect for making snowballs ... the huge sequoias were a perfect target .. trees that had been standing there for 2400 years .. some grown together with their brothers and sisters, forming a huge wide base and multiple crowns ... the crumbly red of the bark of the trees and green of the fresh leaves from the tress that had only just started to sprout, all in a layer of snow .. it was magical to be there, and as later that day we had the joy of the sun that accompanied us for some areas that we visited, magic pure magic ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrjdbEclhh-xe8SwlfK9uw6cyINhf3oyjm9MMypX19pQP_ZCZNRaP2FyFFwmxez2xCuycKKr37YenbmbBMTq2m5SN7OY4WQawE_5bs3bog5C0yo_MGZLBKWBRLQSBHo06rjIzwjA/s1600/DSC06237.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrjdbEclhh-xe8SwlfK9uw6cyINhf3oyjm9MMypX19pQP_ZCZNRaP2FyFFwmxez2xCuycKKr37YenbmbBMTq2m5SN7OY4WQawE_5bs3bog5C0yo_MGZLBKWBRLQSBHo06rjIzwjA/s200/DSC06237.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615175973616066050" /></a><br /><br />being on the right path can give you it all, just make sure you dont try to hard to get somewhere ... strange how nike made that into : there is no finish line .. just like they had brilliantly stolen the: just do it line ... ah well, as long as they print 1972 on their shirts, I wil buy one and even wear it .. (found some for 5 dollars a piece in the nike outlet store, sorry mum, more shirts on the way ...)<br /><br />So after Yosemite for two days, it was time to head back to San Fransisco to drop off my parents at the airport, they were heading back home, leaving me with the bus to hit the road .... for 3 great months ..... And boy am I glad I am not driving one of these huge fuckers ... everywhere you see tourist who have rented one of these huge things, struggling to cut corners, or get their bus parked at the campsites or various tourist sites .... and here is me ... I guess the bus is the same size as the average pick up truck with 4wheel drive that most americans are driving here .. only big difference is that the bus does 25 miles to the gallon .. and these huge v8 engines drink fuel like water rusn down some waterfalls in yosemite after all this snowfall .... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_eU3fyDjpXO5c8wR6vXnlwYx7LvFW3swei4U-wSZaUvJCITMoqJGPXd15_SmAmX0prTjC5ELjOI-wKRYOXb5EAZCqpJYExRNvggd9mjW9YldyHAuqp82B4SxWEj5dtq8sRPLnFQ/s1600/DSC06208.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_eU3fyDjpXO5c8wR6vXnlwYx7LvFW3swei4U-wSZaUvJCITMoqJGPXd15_SmAmX0prTjC5ELjOI-wKRYOXb5EAZCqpJYExRNvggd9mjW9YldyHAuqp82B4SxWEj5dtq8sRPLnFQ/s200/DSC06208.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615177027930111698" /></a><br /><br />So much for the first part ....Paul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-51144356410012036942011-05-03T22:27:00.005+02:002011-05-03T22:47:29.450+02:00On The Road 2011 USA West Coast 2 East CoastFinally it's time to hit the big one ... on the road for real ...<br /><br />5th may I will fly from paris to san fransisco where I will meet my parents who by that time, will have driven from argentina to san fransisco in 6 months time, now their road trip will finish and they will fly home, where I wil take their bus (a vw transporter) and drive it to it's final destination New York .. this is gonna take 88 days as I have planned to visit several national parks and ancient forests etc while on the way ... also I have the luck that the Irish Boy band U2 is gonna be playing the states this summer, so I am gonna cross their schedule a couple of times without having to do too many crazy detours ... <br /><br />I will go and show my parents where I stayed in 91-92 as I attended a college for a year, played semi pro soccer and discovered my first raves ... so the college and the dormitory will be cool to rediscover ... also San Fransisco will be great to see again as it is truelly a friendly place .... after that we will go to Yosemite National Park for two days and then my parents will make their way back home on the 10th may.<br /><br />Then I will start my long awaited road trip ... starting in SF going to Reno, then North end east again to end up at Yellowstone national park and Teton national park, Salt Lake City and back to oakland (u2) then it's time for another dream place to visit ... I hope to find the spot where the famous joshua tree is resting ... I got some coordinates, some foto's and the recordsleeve ... then it's time to go to anaheim for two u2 gigs, then up to Las Vegas and hit east on the famous Route 66 ...<br />I might head up towards Denver, or find another interesting road on my way to Memphis and Nashville (u2) in Tennessee, then northbound to Chicago (u2) - Detroit -- into Canada - Toronto - Montreal (u2 double) and back to the usa to hit the famous East Coast where I will see my final U2 360 gig in East Rutherford and then have one more week to see some real life jersey shore uhum ... then get the bus into a shipping container to get it back to holland, surely my parents can't wait to hit the road again ... me neither .. ciao4now<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOa_FlN0ksApXmLeWYaTEZKspxUvE43Uh6jLbH1LgZL8wzu8HRPuoxP5Ke5-KtGtM6YwzWxoT09JdLEfOiYSs9T_rnO42grBcQ9myMixR-0zLO9Be_IkMppshsbNBUpqq6I6_XJw/s1600/stage+one.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOa_FlN0ksApXmLeWYaTEZKspxUvE43Uh6jLbH1LgZL8wzu8HRPuoxP5Ke5-KtGtM6YwzWxoT09JdLEfOiYSs9T_rnO42grBcQ9myMixR-0zLO9Be_IkMppshsbNBUpqq6I6_XJw/s200/stage+one.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602589376174715778" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTM7EuZ3X4bbwLl5api89RiryeOXTh9T9OK4RzsylOwN4hnq9aeqTyb1l-F4XYD2nzKyd2nwSqfSpO64b-qB-3vtADVfNaYu7zvovb_pJGHwpg-zwlg2fOQdXRQ529S87f2EF_mA/s1600/stage+2+roadtrip.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTM7EuZ3X4bbwLl5api89RiryeOXTh9T9OK4RzsylOwN4hnq9aeqTyb1l-F4XYD2nzKyd2nwSqfSpO64b-qB-3vtADVfNaYu7zvovb_pJGHwpg-zwlg2fOQdXRQ529S87f2EF_mA/s200/stage+2+roadtrip.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602589384714246386" /></a>Paul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-1306779655686503812011-02-18T05:23:00.005+01:002011-02-18T05:49:18.078+01:00hello from ecuadorI am high up in the ecuadorian andes today, enjoying the thermal baths of papallacta<br />tomorrow I will make my way to quito where I will be saying goodbye to my parents after having travelled trough peru and most of ecuador together for 3 weeks. It will be good to not have to put up my tent every day and finally sleep in a proper bed in a hotel for 4 nights, after that I hope to make my way to the jungle via lago agrio, from there its a nice canoe trip up the river before we hit the amazon. Still 2 weeks to fill with all sorts of colours sounds and adventures ... here are some of the past weeks .....<br /><br />mad lines in the nazca desert ..... truelly awesome !!! planes were too dangerous so we stuck to the look out tower .....<br /><br />amazing sunsets at teh westcoast of peru with my little red tent next to my parents bus ... we did need armed security here ... kind of mad ...<br /><br />incredible animals at an island group of the peruvian coast, called islas ballestas<br />seals, pinguins, pelicans and tons of shit producing birds .... really smelly and luckily they missed my head ....<br /><br />huge temples from pre.inca times, they needed 143 million adobe )mud) blocks for the sun temple .... thats how they paid their taxes ... creating a certain number of blocks per family..<br /><br />sweet cats that remind me of home ... it wont be long muts ...<br /><br />crazy banana plantations in ecuador .. ecological and very good for the workers and their family who get proper education and food ....<br /><br />passing trough the andes above the clouds, over 4000 meters up ... luckily our /roetfilter/ has not caused any more troubles, lack of oxygen high up makes a different burning mixture in the enginem blockingh the carbondioxide filter ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0a6zDCyZJemPgNPD5Pddv_T-YLWgojUi0NpYZ_OatkbkwNqgbU-4OwPctEsKil7Zh0N01wTBVA8IdsVVpvQA6_T2xR7dhQSoGjw0hqLJetiVk5tcCbiEY7amCPxUnp2s1AlEPYw/s1600/DSC05022.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQutCWcim-swsIYRgvo7lkf1XjSJ6pk-GrAXgna4-L0ojgegsuYBg4dTLE87TOeehCBC2FswsNHHb-MuZS9LAA2-PVd1ce5fewz-cfo5rnKumHgGzZZxBEXqWVjg3iT7XxlJqgJA/s200/DSC05213.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574886888527678946" /></a>Paul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-8834269170918740492011-02-06T04:01:00.003+01:002011-02-06T04:25:47.894+01:00Macchu PicchuHello hello ...<br /><br />Unbelievable what a trip sofar ... cuzco is an amazing city that is indeed the inca capital of the world, if only they would leave me alone instead of trying to sell stuff all the time .....<br /><br />before we visited macchu picchu we slept in macchu picchu pueblo, so we could get up at 5am and take the bus at 5.30 in order to see the sunrise over this sacred place .... and wow .. was it worth the short night ... sad thing was that my mum was sick and had diarrea cause of some bad food, or salad that was washed with bad water .. luckily she managed to come later at 12pm ... my dad went along with the group, but I had to go up this huayna picchu from where you have an amazing view ... the trip is a huge steep climb, somewhat dangerous but so worth the effort ...<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdBVPq3sLuFU1VzynDV4O6MjSLIWEj_9pimys5Duc9xccKwJcE_1kk5kfxPNbJlYi8tWLxlxN3uc_SgrJ3rB4L70gb4kwQweSjHRJMGPoFct0lvIzqU7PI7RX8KqxNUGa33bHCvg/s1600/mp.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 98px; height: 130px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWzQcZEuOFCD9GiSXnnYHb7pX4durOTS4fB3s7s8VWO8IF_cWferLsz-ZwLcHznlCRrCWLGPeW6u4eL4BRbXcbOXp1rwyJc90G3B2x3PMHYP7osmN_PaVo8vf30k1M_GlAlooxfQ/s200/lama.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570409319993279330" /></a><br /><br />at the ned of the day before we headed back to cuzco I decided to have an icecream .... bad idea ..... it had been defrosted maybe cause of some powercut or something. and then frozen again, but I did not want to be an arsehole and return the icecream when I saw it looked somewaht deformed .... I should have ... really ...<br />cause it caused the biggest instant foodpoisoning I ever had ... throwing up and spraying diarrhea all over the trains toilet was only the start .... after that the 2 hour bus trip back to the hotel was broken up by multiple stops where I left my genetic code all over the countryside .... I never felt so bad ...<br />all I wanted to do was sleep, feeling totally dehydrated etc ... my mummie took care of me, and boy, did I sleep .... it took another day for me to feel better again, and as I am typing I am somewhat recovered .... never again ..... no more ice cream in peru, no matter what ...<br /><br />right now we have arrived in nazca where we will not fly over the lines, as it is too dangerous, they even make you carry your passport on your body when you do decide to fly ... I wonder why .... too many planes have crashed in the past .. we shall do it by foot, and use the lookout tower .... <br /><br />also we are happy to have left the amaizng andes ..... going over 4500 meters and dealing with loads of sliding stones and water flows as a result of the bad weather of the past days .... <br /><br />Off to bed now after a day of too much input ... more later<br /><br />ciao ciaoPaul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-7503988983099820022011-01-30T10:53:00.002+01:002011-01-30T11:22:07.487+01:00peru 2011It,s 05am waiting at the airport in Lima for my connection to Cuzco where i will meet up with my parents who are driving the panamerican highway with their own vw bus ... <br /><br />It has been quite a trip sofar .. Due to snow in NY my first flight was canceled from Brussels, I was pleased that they gave me a hotel incl meals in the mercure airport hotel. Otherwise I would have had to go back to Tilburg and then back to brussels the next morning ... no way ..... The next day I was hopefull that my flight would take me on the road, and it did, but 2,5 hours late which meant I would most likely miss my connection in newark, and as there was no other flight to Lima, I was gonna be stuck at the airport for 24hrs .. mmmm...... nottin I could do about it .. In Newark I had to collect my bags and go trough customs before I could re'check my bags for the next flight,and find out if I had missed my flight or not, there was a chance that the other flight was delayed also. The customs took ages, with very big arseholes behind the counters .... clearly treating coloured and muslims differently, also me with my dreads was made to wait longer ... luckily I have learned to shut up, cause if I would have said something they would have only slowed things down even more ... When i finally could re-check my bags, they told me the other flight was delayed, and i was gonna run, I would be abel to make it .. woeaaahhhhh ... yesss .... I ran like a madman across the airport to gate c 126 ... even managed to talk my way to the front of the Q for the next bagage scan ... but upon arrival at the gate, I was told the flight had left 2 minutes earlier .. fuck me ....<br /><br />Totally out of breath, and with the sweat in my underpants I was very very pissed off .. they knew we were on our way, but still they left .. ok ... switch ... now I needed to make sure I was gonna go on the next days flight, which was almost full as the day prior, no flights had left Newark due to the snow ... also I was gonna see if they would get me a hotel again like in Brussels, cause I also realised that as my flight to cuzco was on the 30th very early morning I was up for another night at the airport (which is going on right now) which is not much fun as you have to watch your stuff and try to get some sleep ... <br /><br />First they told me 4 times that all they could do was give me a list of hotels, but that they could not offer me a free night .... I could get a paper which entitled me to a distressed passenger rrate ..... which would still be around 65 euro ... or 80 dollars .... not acceptable .. that is what I told the lady that was helping me, or better, that ws trying to wave me off .... and again, she said the same thing .. and again and again ... so I decided to ask for the supervisor as I was not gonna accept this .--- 10 minutes later the supervisor decided not to come out but give the lady the green light to get me my room for free .. yessss ...... they tied to blame it on the weather ... being an act of god (wha ha ) so I told them that in brusseld i actually did get a room, with the same reasons for delay .. they must have checked that in their system .... cause now they changed their act ..<br />I also got meal vouchers again ... so I was ok with it all .... <br /><br />Unfortunately I was too tired to go into NY city for couple of hours, so I decided to take a nice relaxing bath, have a good meal and get some proper sleep ... <br /><br />And today I finally made my way to Lima, where I am right now, spending from 23pm till 08am before my flight to cuzco will depart ... 1 hour ago I could drop off my big bag, and with only 3 hours to go I decided to go for a coffee .. and get some help from the pc and the screen to keep me awake .... so .. here is the first stage of my 5 week adventure ...<br /><br />My mum and dad have already arrived in cuzco, they also have setup my tent next to their bus and they will be picking me up in 5 hours time .... I am preparing for some bigtime altitude sickness as cuzco is way high up in the mountains .--- will need loads of sleep and some aspirine I guess .... acclimatise before I will be joining my parents on the way to Machu Pichu .-.-- we will go by train as the inca trail is closed in february for repair works ... will return another time to do the inca trail properly ! After that I wil jump onboard my parents bus to go towards Nazca and on to the sea and up towards ecuador .... Might get off the bus earlier but I think I will stay on board for 3 weeks untill I get to Quito where I will have to choose to either go to the jungle or go for a nice mountain trekking adventure .. <br /><br />and in case you are ever flying with continental, please do not expect a veggie meal .... the fuckers managed to do this twice ..... leaving me with nottin but salad and bread .... good thing i brought some cheese and bread myself for the first stage and some leftover pizza for flight nr 2 ---- <br /><br />lets see what they will get me for flight nr 3 ------- <br /><br />ciao4nowPaul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-21167850996447769742011-01-14T21:21:00.002+01:002011-01-14T21:31:56.785+01:00wide awake in europe epboy, am I happy to finally get my copies that I ordered from the states ...<br />I ordered three copies as soon as the pre-order had gone "hot" ... never expecting to actually receive 3 copies .. there were only 5000 copies made and nobody knew where they would go, apart from independant vinyl stores .... one of the copies is for my "u2"mate and one stays in my cupboard ... the other copy has been played, it skips with i'll go crazy, and the sleeves have been damaged in the packaging process .. they have dropped the records too hard, both in the innersleeve, and the outersleeve .... or maybe they should have used thicker cardboard .... ?? anyway ... I dont care too much .... <br /><br /><br />wide awake no matter what ....<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_CGjZlja3WSgpH1ZiFb3h6qMCy3szCESz9NHEdSNqqZmsDNw5x5l_sKlKZd1f0QsIirPBe-e4NrGe4PoPOhhvgr9s7-oxFpNSw9w7RUgQc32KhsC4fRT2mnnPq-lRKeJd2441wQ/s1600/wideawake_numbers_edited.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_CGjZlja3WSgpH1ZiFb3h6qMCy3szCESz9NHEdSNqqZmsDNw5x5l_sKlKZd1f0QsIirPBe-e4NrGe4PoPOhhvgr9s7-oxFpNSw9w7RUgQc32KhsC4fRT2mnnPq-lRKeJd2441wQ/s200/wideawake_numbers_edited.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562141602259446370" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0UKrfW5kBHFNYdnga9hKfN9bjO09Vu7qPbZBQT2GD6PGDQCSaLtE_lLMa5JouESbkDt54BRsQwFxMhaARDvFwNNps2Ezsy5ny_em9hM2n1kjB0lb6nxTz0c_3tp9a-JBBdpq5AA/s1600/DSC04484.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0UKrfW5kBHFNYdnga9hKfN9bjO09Vu7qPbZBQT2GD6PGDQCSaLtE_lLMa5JouESbkDt54BRsQwFxMhaARDvFwNNps2Ezsy5ny_em9hM2n1kjB0lb6nxTz0c_3tp9a-JBBdpq5AA/s200/DSC04484.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562141596673585154" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_GmNYnijVfewh0_lVZnGgaZ7WagHQ2e9jKEq0l5gYRFJ_Ezsh_QkaODroglPZgCSlrbztwAezlz_-U-Jl0lgR8cQNpC38oaAb3JkrpEzBO2sOssgNWW5ne-7pAZ2Ar2Rs_Pz5Cw/s1600/DSC04471.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_GmNYnijVfewh0_lVZnGgaZ7WagHQ2e9jKEq0l5gYRFJ_Ezsh_QkaODroglPZgCSlrbztwAezlz_-U-Jl0lgR8cQNpC38oaAb3JkrpEzBO2sOssgNWW5ne-7pAZ2Ar2Rs_Pz5Cw/s200/DSC04471.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562141591038388466" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZL2VrdO3AkRG1ZOLDj5Gt1AXXJJHfLhDXOdf5EucAowymQoi4H98rcBJwRfZ2dcP2JC_dzmK6T1FAQJMe7Uu_uzEJdrt8f_EdtWAo_-KgjiTGTzyBiNBUb_Toji0EWDMPQ2jOTA/s1600/DSC04469.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZL2VrdO3AkRG1ZOLDj5Gt1AXXJJHfLhDXOdf5EucAowymQoi4H98rcBJwRfZ2dcP2JC_dzmK6T1FAQJMe7Uu_uzEJdrt8f_EdtWAo_-KgjiTGTzyBiNBUb_Toji0EWDMPQ2jOTA/s200/DSC04469.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562141582045199490" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTM2_A5ubdmsSu3v4dY2Oju8jC1mVbdQ0mPY4Oe0TJfwCxkZ1VKo8owY0Ec3roqkiHDDhOZZZaRK_Dp8bdRIh_ok1XTLwQy-UNXEJ8FeZXokVit_dCWwHBXXAw2AKo-G2FZ1yaUA/s1600/DSC04485.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTM2_A5ubdmsSu3v4dY2Oju8jC1mVbdQ0mPY4Oe0TJfwCxkZ1VKo8owY0Ec3roqkiHDDhOZZZaRK_Dp8bdRIh_ok1XTLwQy-UNXEJ8FeZXokVit_dCWwHBXXAw2AKo-G2FZ1yaUA/s200/DSC04485.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562141605365400850" /></a>Paul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-7242718141823381742010-12-25T01:52:00.005+01:002010-12-25T02:00:57.526+01:00Slide projections for X-mas gala 2010For the third year in a row I got to light up a small white chapel for the annual x-mas gala night for the Lions service club. <br /><br />They raise money for a good cause and try to spread some fun along the way, I try to transform the location by projecting two huge x-mas balls on either side of the stage and then add yellow projections to the two walls next to that. Then there is the ceiling that consists of rows of long panels to improve accoustics, on the balcony I set up two sets of 6 projectors at either side to transform the ceiling from front to back with yellow / green-blue projections. <br /><br />The actual glass-in-lead windows are lit up by plain building lights at the outside, simulating the sun in a way ... and then to top it off a mirror ball magically helps in creating a star lit sky at the back of the stage ... <br /><br />This year there was a mobile hanging in the centre of the chapel, they were huge angel like figures holding various items, made of paper/cardboard, and ideal to serve as a moving projection "screen" .... <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEEw9ZDWqSD9bvmztnr-zzcK9i83fknlVSITjoXQYfbx9alG2DZxELjPtGqquv5oPUFGMd-3YTqo_6M68C-EpHBLJogf9bBKSPK_ALeq-V-MhLXG7v_Jp3plWRTD1zXoJpAuv_TQ/s1600/DSC04438.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUhH3ydiMYQM6wdYs_rOnI_PE3f-ycsP0G9qUSNxWYQCdbADKImZI7DYJa0TUo7KGR2cjaW1sQoc_mExbW42DQ9LzdbbNqs2lRDoJmRg8CLCr5eo9R1zSp5riv45JeJ1WnJy39sg/s200/DSC04388.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554417563673533890" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuHnhEvWYCvI2IAzYBTlgTbTd_ytsEvDysduY_A6qE_vhELmCMYZ0owkr-M6sE_aDJethsS-ZgCxAqlQ6ZiezNKJnMt0ceaa1LSWfs955e1mwbPGeFi_S2jBxHC8UHhHf6FOC1Cg/s1600/DSC04381.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuHnhEvWYCvI2IAzYBTlgTbTd_ytsEvDysduY_A6qE_vhELmCMYZ0owkr-M6sE_aDJethsS-ZgCxAqlQ6ZiezNKJnMt0ceaa1LSWfs955e1mwbPGeFi_S2jBxHC8UHhHf6FOC1Cg/s200/DSC04381.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554417553794729874" /></a>Paul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-86645148889228202282010-12-25T00:39:00.002+01:002010-12-25T00:45:31.637+01:00newyears eve ----gonna be playing records and fresh homemade tunes from 4 - 6 -- <br />we will be hosting a small room along with jitze and hans -- <br />music from 12.30 till 06.00 doors close at 04.00 !!!<br /><br />location: de hall of fame - tilburg -- there will be three areas -<br />variety of music on offer -- good vibes and unfortunately an entry fee of 7 euro presale and 15 on the night , max capacity 500 which will be sold out fast ... ...<br />c ya therePaul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-64215263689817465992010-11-06T16:38:00.002+01:002010-11-06T16:41:23.777+01:00make some music ... please ....saturday 06th nov 2010 somewhere in belgium ....<br /><br />acid in the woods and system operator will join together for an evening of fun, food and music .... I will be bringing my liveset along for some musical entertaining ...<br /><br />check your local network for the address <br /><br />see you therePaul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-29388368091592799452010-09-21T16:55:00.002+02:002010-09-21T16:58:58.187+02:00gone again<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4fKYzLtkddIfNFl7wxG-8gISllQN2xvZFNEK0Zezg4H_lzVXULXnT3g5uzkIaXEiLPW-ow13QKuVzh3Kup2mixxup2VywIJS79CD6LlUJ6G7c3un3QgUfQvNOE-v6Lib9H4okyw/s1600/busjefrance.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4fKYzLtkddIfNFl7wxG-8gISllQN2xvZFNEK0Zezg4H_lzVXULXnT3g5uzkIaXEiLPW-ow13QKuVzh3Kup2mixxup2VywIJS79CD6LlUJ6G7c3un3QgUfQvNOE-v6Lib9H4okyw/s200/busjefrance.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519381417251400194" /></a><br />heya<br /><br />sorry for the lack of updates .... it was busy and happy times !!<br /><br />was on the road for a month -- st petersburg - moscow - athens and istanbul were amazing to explore and discover ....<br /><br />now its time to hit the south ...<br /><br />brussels - paris - san sebastian - sevilla - coimbra and then two more weeks on the road in north portugal and spain ... slowly making my way back home ...<br /><br />I promise I will upload some more tracks when I am back ... <br />right now very busy selecting new music for the next accu releases and cant choose what to pick and what to let go via my soundcloud page ... <br /><br />this will be my home for the next 4 weeks ...<br />see you on the roadPaul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-68210164103858423252010-08-15T16:51:00.001+02:002010-08-15T16:54:19.956+02:00U2 - 360 in Frankfurt<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAxDh4YQYXvBwlSCo_MaGBpwJM2FVu_faoxNS0HPFvBOZS4dbwWb3Fg86WKB3A6LjyCiYrmK5I_yQu66TvGzpDIYH08tpl0ZudaZyQ1HDkIs3OShfEER4zLrXlI8kSN9L9XD77mQ/s1600/cimg0894.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAxDh4YQYXvBwlSCo_MaGBpwJM2FVu_faoxNS0HPFvBOZS4dbwWb3Fg86WKB3A6LjyCiYrmK5I_yQu66TvGzpDIYH08tpl0ZudaZyQ1HDkIs3OShfEER4zLrXlI8kSN9L9XD77mQ/s200/cimg0894.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505650013138528402" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF40u1Heiw4J4vxJiqLwTNpWFqbg3cINFkUSfHJatuKUPwvIKD09KWCtacYeakNrgTkGAeNB-wBmqKx6xFPVhYCrm-qs29xCX_V8msILTEc2R9pJtfx_O63N7MbVDPLwvf8SS_Kg/s1600/cimg0860.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF40u1Heiw4J4vxJiqLwTNpWFqbg3cINFkUSfHJatuKUPwvIKD09KWCtacYeakNrgTkGAeNB-wBmqKx6xFPVhYCrm-qs29xCX_V8msILTEc2R9pJtfx_O63N7MbVDPLwvf8SS_Kg/s200/cimg0860.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505650014621145058" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRuT_pnSyzzu6AMGRkrq8vFHYULYDebljHNzmWwO3wD5TV4oI6Sr6jZ9Zlqy8bD2itD9PujNPKJlsZdQGFdxuQviCPqk23x_ZnQec2X_oYTBszCzw6YU3FGJM7Vknd8gWfwbPTug/s1600/cimg0898.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRuT_pnSyzzu6AMGRkrq8vFHYULYDebljHNzmWwO3wD5TV4oI6Sr6jZ9Zlqy8bD2itD9PujNPKJlsZdQGFdxuQviCPqk23x_ZnQec2X_oYTBszCzw6YU3FGJM7Vknd8gWfwbPTug/s200/cimg0898.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505650008294830930" /></a><br />monday the 9th of august, waking up with excitement as today was the day that I was finally gonna go away again with my bus. Off to frankfurt as U2 was gonna play their second concert of this summer, after having seen the first one in turin, I was filled with joy, cause they were rocking like never before ... It took me some time to arrange my stuff, but then it was departure time .. speakers were blasting out old bootlegs from the 80's to get in the mood, as if that was necessary ... <br /><br />It took quite a while to get to frankfurt as my bus is quite old, from 1975, quite heavy and big and therefore prefers a cruising speed of around 80 - 85 km. As soon as I entered the area around the stadium, I started looking for a place to park, but offcourse the goal was to get as close as possible, looking for a spot, I soon had entered the ring around the stadium for the 2nd time, but this time it was leading me back to the airport, another 12 km extra to go ... hmmmm so the next time I was close to the stadium, I parked in an area with houses I had spotted, about 2km from the venue, I got my bmx bike out, it was 00.30am and wnet off to the stadium to check things out. When I arrived I found the first nutters who were gonna sleep outside, all close together at one of the four entrances that were gonna be used the next day, each with its advantages and shortcomings. E5 was the only one "equipped" with a dixie and together with E3 the closest to the field entrance, so the least running was involved the next day, but rumours were flying that not all entrances were gonna be opened at the same time etc .. ha ha .. here we go .... <br /><br />I decided to check out all different possibilities, but found out that there was no one at the other entrances so decided that the next day I was gonna go for E5 also ... but, as it was allready getting late I thought it would be wise to get a proper sleep first, after all I did not bring my bus for nothing ! Said hello to some familiar faces, and asked how to get to the big parking right next to the stadium, then headed back to my bus and quickly made my way to the parking to set up basecamp so to say ... Decided to hit the bed without my alarm clock set, reassured by stories that the germans are not as mad as the italians, where at 06.30am there were allready 700 people in line ... stressing out like mad ... (well, the first 200 were not, as they had been there the longest and gotten pretty at home around the venue, but from nr 400 up they were standing from 09.00am onwards, nuts, totally nuts .... as they did not get in untill 16.15pm) <br /><br />ok, slept like a baby, woke up at 10 made some breakfast and coffee and got my camping chairs and umbrella along with some spare mats for those around me sitting on the ground, lets share the luxury .... Got nr 231 and felt pretty relaxed ... met Cathal again, who wrote the Me & U2 book and who is travelling around europe also this summer, got acquainted with an english man with his daughter and chatted time away .... Around 13pm I made some pasta in my bus, wich was ideal, and enjoyed lunch along with Leo, a spanish guy I met in torino who was gonna stay in my bus in Hannover after Frankfurt. Then it was waiting time again, around 15pm I moved all of my stuff back to the bus, as shortly everyone was gonna go and stand up and the Q was gonna get a bit more compressed, but it was very relaxed all teh time .. the germans are chilled ! <br /><br />Around 16.15 it wa stime to get in ... had all of my drinks and food prepared in see trough bags, so security could see easily, and it went very fast and smooth, no stress ... then it was running time ... untill we hit security again, who told us to take it easy, they were still shocked from the terrible thing that had happened at the love parade some weeks earlier (20 people died as they were all pushed together in one big tunnel, really terrible, so I can see why they were so "tense" it was ok ... we went with the flow ..) When I entered the stadium from the back (strange as normally we run towards the claw (stage)) I was aiming for my favouriste spot, in the centre at the rail outside the catwalk ... but saw some people there allready ... fuck me .. they had let the other entrance go in first ... ah well .... so now what to do ... either go to either side where there was still space, about 6 meters from the centre, or take a risk and go for the centre and hope I could fit in ... it was the last ... fast and furious I went .... and succeeded as there were two separate "parties" trying to block too much space with too little bodies .. also they did not need all the space, so I jumped in between, not without communicating at the same time, beacuse after all, I was gonna have to spend the entire concert with them as neighbours, I hate the wars that sometimes start at these tense moments ... but hey .. all was ok, apart from my left neighbours, who were really two big ladies, each weighing about 130kilo and they were not happy with me and Leo (he was following shortly after me) grasping the rail next to them .... but hey .. tough luck .... luckily I was not next to them, Leo was ... and he has had a tough evening with loads of elbowing and silent fights for space without any communication ... thats what can happen ... my neighbours on the right were dutch, three in total ... and very pleasant company ... The area was set up with an extra barrier, so that not too many people could get in one area, dividing teh field in 2 which was ideal, as they let only soo many people in, wristbanded them and then it was our space ... really cool ... cause we could easily go and eat and use the toilets, and come back ... it was gonna be a great night !!!<br /><br />And so it was .... too many beautifull things to mention from the concert ,.. the crowd was amazing .. probably also loads of dutchies, as U2 does not hit holland this year, and frankfurt is close by ... they were doing teh wave and clapping like mad before showtime ... it felt better than Italy ... amazing ... never expected this .... but it took off like a rocket ....<br /><br />U2 had decided to play new years day after opening with beautifull day ... yes yes yes , one of my favourite songs ... man ... the crowd went nuts, and so did I .... jumping like mad, happy as a baby ! The setlist rocked bigtime, with the guys ending up right in front of me many times .... mysterious ways with edge and bono ... and most amazingly, the crazy remix with bono doing the discotheque snippet improvisation 50 centimeters away from me .... if I was a girl, I would have fainted there and then ..... then he sat down on his knees and started Sunday Bloody Sunday ... ok, you could wipe me away then ... I needed some time to take it all in .... this was amazing .... <br /><br />The rest of the concert went by like a dream and it was great, really one of the best shows I have seen out of the 17 -U2360 shows I have seen so far .... yup .... for real .. in germany ... ha ha ..... When it was over I said goodbye to my neighbours and friends, off to my bus, but not before I had scored a nice souvenir, one of the big posterboards outside ... its now in my bus, but way too big to hang on the wall .... ah well ... wil find a good destination for it ... <br /><br />I slept on the parking again, which was nice ... no more travelling, or waiting for the cars to leave before you can get out ... the next day I walked into the stadium without any problems, so I could use the toilets, then made some breakfast and coffee ... while looking at the stadium .... nice ... waited for my passenger Hille, who was gonna drive along to Hannover, and around 14pm, left frankfurt behind ... what a gig !!!Paul van der Weeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02320272075715111239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214638.post-26258294680219042922010-07-16T01:02:00.007+02:002010-07-16T01:29:24.039+02:00de zilvervloot 13 july amsterdam 2010another unforgettable day ! <br /><br />arrived in amsterdam late monday night, parked my bus close to the nsdm wharf, across the water from the central station, where its free and safe to park, and you take the free shuttle boat to the station ... bring your bike !<br />then discovered the route, and took my spot pretty early, next to the three ladies who made that great banner " welcome home heroes " I also made sure no commercial rats managed to dress up "our bridge" with their coca cola or heineken flags -- we brought our own flags ! <br /><br />to kill time, the crowd had fun kicking balls across the canals, one window broke, but the kicker even went up to the owner under loud cheers, to sort it out .... when my chance came I thought about those windows too much, and my attempt ended in the water -- where the water police picked them up so we could continue .... <br /><br />when the boat finally came, the crowd exploded including myself ... what a discharge, to charge their batteries a bit ..... ruuud hesp threw one of the orange "I am sterdam" caps up to us but it ended up in the water, the flowers he threw after that, I did manage to catch .... kept one orange flower !<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipgbYenGs0jO-bdIQIj69nLr9gT7kasUoeLaFC5CZKty2lAAFn1K8rm3-j87_RBC95ibxiW1vgJy9Dam3kK-IivivsmULEOBNB9pY-mslFDcRcZSMQiOWG6UdAGefyDhGYQIWRJA/s1600/90.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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