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26/7: Vladimiro drove us back to Pheonix through a different route. This time, the freeway took us through the hot hot desert. There just is something about desertd that fascinate me. I can’t really pinpoint what it is. Maybe it’s the huge perspectives. The horizon. Maybe it’s the harshness, how life still has managed toContinue reading “Chapter 317: Returning through the desert”

26/7: One of the most visited spots on the southern edge of the canyon is the Lookout. Sometime, long ago, this was voted to have the most impressive and representative view of the canyon. So they built a tower and a museum there, and now there’s a never ending stream of touists climbing the stairsContinue reading “Chapter 316: The Grand Canyon Lookout”

25-26/7: Living in Grand Canyon National Park means either camping or staying at a lodge. We stayed at a lodge, built right on the edge of the canyon. It was huge, the hotel complex, but the interior design felt like it wanted to give a feeling of a hunting cabin in the alps. After dinner,Continue reading “Chapter 315: The Lodge”

A proud student of INK, the Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, at Stockholm University. At one of the big geological wonders of the world.

25/7: I guess, in a way, Grand Canyon is the closest thing to a holy place that a physical geographer can come. There is something so extremely non-human over it. Just to imagine how a small river has managed to dig such a deep scar into the bedrock – the time it has required –Continue reading “Chapter 313: Sunset over Grand Canyon”

25/7: Vladimiro had been to Grand Canyon National Park before. Many times. He had a secret spot, and to get there you had to walk for thirty minute through the low and sparse conifer forest on the south rim of the canyon. Along the path, there were several burned tree stumps. They were surrounded byContinue reading “Chapter 311: Anticipation”

25/7: Mom’s friend Vladimiro the university professor picked us up at the airport in Phoenix together with his PhD student Daniel. But we barely had time to sleep, before it was time to get back on the road again. This time, we were bound north. We had lunch at an Amish diner. I got sauerkraut.Continue reading “Chapter 310: Birches of Arizona”

24/7: On the way back from King’s Canyon, we stopped by another giant sequoia grove. This is what they look like, the baby sequoias. There were squirrels everywhere. Seriously. Everywhere. Mom, walking through a hollow giant tree trunk. And then the journey down the mountain started. By the foot of the mountain, on the edgeContinue reading “Chapter 309: A farewell to Sierra Nevada”

24/7: Ajoining Sequoia National Park is another national park – that of Kings Canyon. My last day in California for this time was spent between these spectacular canyon walls. Imagine what a little water and ages and ages of time can do. Says something about having patience, doesn’t it?