Travelogues Colorado

Those traveling by train through the almost empty areas of the USA mainly see vastness and a huge and yet beautiful nothingness. No skyscrapers, no crowds of people or cars, no...

Dear followers, On Friday, August 23, 2024, we finally set off for our much-anticipated summer vacation. With great excitement, we made our way to the airport to fly to Denver....

May 24, 2011 / Tuesday / Cortez-Mesa Verde-Mexican Hat We leave the hotel parking lot at 6:45 am. The sun is just rising and a storm is approaching. But as always in Colorado,...

23.05. / Monday / Durango-Silverton-Cortez We already have to be at the Durango train station at 8.00 am, which is only 150 meters away from the hotel. We have already...

Here we are!

29.05.2011 / Sunday / Aspen-Denver A great breakfast awaits us at the hotel after all! Even with dark bread, real cheese, and even cold cuts. Unfortunately, I'm not hungry at...

28.05. / Saturday / Palisades-Aspen We have breakfast outside in the sun, how nice! Therefore, we only leave at 10:30 am and continue rolling on Highway 70 to the east. At...

What a day today: probably one of the most intense and craziest of my journey so far. And NO, not because I was so hungover after the Halloween party yesterday :D. Rather...

Vierzig Tage mit Crayola – Erfahrungsbericht Escape Campervan Bei wirklich guten Freundinnen und Freunden weiß man auch noch nach Jahrzehnten, wann und unter welchen Umständen...

16.06. / Donnerstag / Estes Park – Rocky Mountain National Park Wir frühstücken wieder auf der Terrasse in der Sonne und fahren gemütlich gegen halb elf zum Rocky Mountain...

Greetings from beautiful Denver! Since yesterday, I am no longer in the southeastern USA, but I have flown to the southwest to Colorado. Why? Because I love the mountains and...

The best travel advice ever: Just use a small piece of luggage!

Colorado is an amazing state. It's the best I've experienced so far (including Utah) because it offers so much variety. It starts with Rocky Mountain National Park, which feels a...

After setting up our camp in Rawlins, in southeastern Wyoming, the previous evening and being close to the Colorado border, we headed, of course, to Colorado. About Rawlins, it is...

Since today, after freezing temperatures yesterday, fortunately we had another beautiful sunny day and my time in beautiful Colorado is slowly coming to an end, I had to take...

Today was my last day in Boulder...and Boulder was apparently sad that I wanted to go back to Denver. Because when I went outside yesterday morning, it was over 20 degrees...

Today I send you greetings from beautiful Boulder! Have you never heard of Boulder except for climbing? I hadn't either before. Boulder is the 8th largest city in Colorado with...

Rocky Mountains National Park

I will never understand why people pace in a motel room. And normally it's not a problem, but when it happens above you, it's annoying. Luckily, my earplugs are very tight and...

Wednesday, 18.20.3023, day 18 We started in Albuquerque and drove about an hour to Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico. Santa Fe is a really cute western town in the center that...

10/21. Amelia gets us coffee while I wait for the receptionist. She checks all the rooms before we get our $100 deposit back...We give one of our camping mattresses to a...

That's when the world was still in order

31.05. / Dienstag / Denver Wir gehen zu Fuß ins Stadtzentrum, was etwa 25 Minuten dauert. Wir bemerken, dass um unser Hotel herum sehr noble Häuser stehen oder sehr stylische...

Pagosa Springs

Today it worked out :) My first hike in beautiful Colorado. With cold 0 degrees, but gorgeous sunshine, it was a lot of fun. The mountains are simply magnificent.... Even though...

This morning I convince René to turn on the generator briefly to warm up the camper. In hindsight, we realize that the generator is not needed for this, as the heating is...

Tired, we drive to Fort Collins to meet Britney in the evening, whom I met years ago on the ferry from Jordan to Egypt and spent 2 days in Dahab with her colleague. The town...

14.06. / Tuesday / Salt Lake City - Estes Park At 08.40 we leave Salt Lake City heading east. The Interstate 80 is our road for the next 540 miles (870 kilometers) today. We had...

With a 2-day delay, we continue with the travel report. Unfortunately, this should not be our day.🙁 First, we set off to Mount Rushmore. It was not far from Hill City. We...

We start at 8 a.m. so that we can see a lot. We quickly pass the entrance to the national park and drive part of yesterday's route. The Grand Lake is at an altitude of 2,550...