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From Yuma to San Diego

In Yuma we stay in a campground, where almost exclusively Residents live in well-furnished and decorated with flowers, RVs or cottage in the shadow of trees with dense foliage. Everything looks tight, but look fairly decent. At the edge of white oleander flower, birds chirping early in the morning.
As the transactions in the small, quaint downtown not open before 10 clock. we visit the historic Quartermaster Depot Park to see where carts from the early days, an old Ford, the classy and spacious house of the commander, listen to the chirping of birds to Mocking imitating all sorts of birds.

go first after 11 clock We continue on I-8 and make a short photo stop at the Algodones Dunes, Imperial County, a real sand desert with impressive dunes, all sorts of flowers bloom on the edge. To cross this 10-mile wide sand barrier was built in the 20s of last century, a mobile Holzplankenweg. The cars were allowed to max. Drive over 10 mph. Piece driver soon slipped once on the fence and got stuck in the sand. A broad irrigation canal, the All American Canal will also be determined by the dunes. We see wide fertile fields. A machine cuts the grass short stature. The border fence with Mexico runs 100 meters off of I-8. Then we pass two tests. A controlled the importation of food, another prevents the illegal immigration of Mexicans (border control). Since our appearance and the visa in the passport inspires confidence, we must pass. # 111 goes on it finally north to the east bank of the Salton Sea. We see a huge Cattlefarm closely crammed with thousands of cattle. A separate railway track leading to a powerful feed silo.
We are looking for a place to stay for the night. All State Areas in which we vorbeifahen are closed. The State of California, tells us a lady was, no longer afford in a bad financial situation and can get the staff! But actually we like it here, not at all. The landscape that is disappointing. As we see in the distance, green shrubs and palm trees. Fortunately, there is the only remaining State Campground, are only 12 places on its only two RVs. The place is very beautiful. Behind us, the Chocolate Mountains, our parking lot near the lake in the west, the Santa Rosa Mountains, whose peaks are covered with snow. We watch all kinds of birds, look out on the (alleged) sand beach and the water. The beach is composed entirely of small pieces of shells and skeletons of other animals. In millions of years, a thick layer of lime is deposited - then we can imagine the formation of limestone mountains. We are located at 70 m below sea level.

After lunch we read, phone calls go up 17 clock Mela, which is associated with several difficulties. The only function of the telephone set at the park entrance is to swallow coins, otherwise you're really not! We have to drive 2.5 miles to the nearest retail store. The swallows more coins. Finally, we try the phone card, which also consumed in our strong credit. Emil it's better now, he has antibiotics - the panacea of American doctors - swallowed. We will call tomorrow at noon in Anza Borrego with her again.
the late afternoon to sunset at 19 clock is spent on the beach. Countless birds are found to dinner Reviews Taucherli with red eyes (I diagnose: inflammation due to salt water), pelicans with ulcers on the bill - I call it Rhino pelicans, probably a white egret and blue heron (blue heron), gulls, terns, two Black-necked stilts (they stand on one leg), Black-pellied plover etc. .. We only make us angry at the Chinese, who are with perseverance it to fish the lake empty.


The Salton Sea existed earlier times, but the water level was 90 m higher. Indians settled along its banks. Then dried up the lake. 1905 he completed the Colorado River, which at high water a dam broke, again. The water evaporates, the bear that is brought by the tributaries scarce mineral in melt in the salinization of the lake.
The # 111 runs next to the Camp Ground, just behind a railway line, a direct link from Los Angeles to Yuma, every 10-15 minutes on a 100-car freight train thunders by long. The engines of the locomotives generate deep vibrations that bring in a disco the diaphragm to vibrate. In addition, you let the neighboring guarded crossing their horn. During the day you can hear them for miles, at night you see her powerful lights from 10 miles away. So what? This is a tradition as the Camp Fire or the oversized cup of coffee on a morning walk with the dog. We can not do this on a restless night. The only solution is a strong drink beer! The next day we drive around
the Salton Sea in the counterclockwise direction. We drive past the palm groves and orange groves. discovered with the sharp image of organic produce Esther is a real source: the Oasis Date Gardens lead for over a hundred years, a large-scale Dattelfarm and specialize in organic farming. The large amount of water required to be delivered from 1913 through artesian wells. We buy an equally generous. I drink organic coffee, and we eat a Dattelbisquit of which we, being very good tastes, the same a couple of packs to buy. Soon we reach the desert area of the Anza Borrego Desert Park. The Ocotillos who now deep green leaves and are in full bloom. At 12 clock we call Mela. Emil has a high fever again. Therefore, we must give to a meeting in the Anza Borrego. The heat and the sun would not do well Emily! We will shorten our stay here and then spend the last three days at and with them in San Diego.
In the desert it is quite warm during the day. We measure 32 °. In the Visitor Center we listen to two presentations: one on bats, one above, solar cooking '. More convincing to me is a cyclist who his vehicle was covered with solar cells that feed four batteries that supply power for an electric motor. With the strong radiation, he races them correctly as possible.

On Saturday morning we leave right away to go directly to our dear grandchild and his parents in San Diego. There us is for us an unusually cool - we wear a jacket for the first time - and humid. We are told that air traffic in Europe by the outbreak of Eyjafjallajökull is paralyzed. We try to get to via telephone flight confirmation details in experience, but stuck for almost an hour in a telephone waiting loop. So we would rather sell us the time with our grandchild. The boys hope that air traffic remains slow even longer time out to keep us in San Diego. Finally, we can confirm our return flight via email through our office in Zurich. We then learn on the homepage of the Swiss, on Monday evening that the first flight Los Angeles - Zurich takes place.

Our granddaughter Emily, it's feeling better soon. We often walk along the coast - where he usually in the baby carriage in a healthy deep sleep falls. On Monday we'll visit with him and his father the same time extremely interesting and instructive, Birch Aquarium at Scripps'.
Today, Tuesday we drink with our guys have a coffee, then go to Los Angeles where we return on Wednesday morning to get the RV. We hope that we can then take the evening flight back to Switzerland.

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westward into the Gold Country California

Our route:


Before we begin the long route to southwestern California to the Anza Borrego Desert State Park with our boys' before our flight home at 21.4. have to spend a few days, we do in one of the most beautiful and because of its geology and biology's most interesting areas of the southwest a little walk. We drive to the Chiricahua National Monument, we have of our trip in 2006 lasting impression. On a small campground, the middle of a forest of juniper and oak trees, only 22 offers smaller RV's place, we spend two nights absolutely quiet. Mexican Jays, White-tailed deer and even a Mexican Coatimundi (Nasua narica), a voracious omnivores are other visitors of the place.

leaves on well-developed hiking trails in the woods and past the massive towers, columns and needles from rhyolite tuff walk well. 27 million years ago exploded about 16 km distant volcano. Huge quantities of ash and sand were blown into the air and deposited here in a 600 m high layer and compacted into a solid tuff layers. About 15 million Years was lifted in this layer up and broke in vertical columns. The erosion by sun, rain, ice and wind brought from the mountains and rarely as masters out the characteristic towers.


Now we drive back through vast levels: by the Chihuahuan Desert, which extends far to the north to Texas and Mexico, and which also includes the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona and California in the Sonoran Desert . We go on about the same route, which the settlers in the 19th Century by the lower reaches of the Mississippi had taken out: in Arizona, especially the flow of the Gila River, which flows into the Colorado River in Yuma along. Southern New Mexico and Arizona was looking to mid-19th Century for ways to connect the isolated California to the East. Wagon Roads with stations every 20 miles have been set up, planned rail lines. Settlers followed the route masse. This led to the known conflicts with the indigenous population, the Indians, but also with the Mexicans. The resource-poor neighbor to the south could eventually be bought a large area to secure the western route breiträumig - and the opening up of the South was no limit to everything.
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the individual level through the mountains, stand out like islands from the plane. These so-called Sky Islands you can imagine lonely like green islands in the South Pacific, full of exotic plants and animals. Plants and animals are stuck in these islands. Changes in the climate change and thus the living conditions, there would be no escape for this, and evolution would extinguish it. Together with the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico, they are one of the three mega-centers of biodiversity on our planet. In the Chiricahua Mountains, which is a part of this center, home to more than 1,200 plants, including 233 tree species and 70 mammal species. Half of all bird species occurring in North America, namely, 275 types are found here, plus visitors from Mexico as the elegant trogon (Kupfertrogon) and the Mexican jay (Graubrusthäher).
This 1000 km long journey we stay again in the Saguaro National Park, the vegetation has changed wonderfully in the past few weeks: Now bear covered with green leaves, spiny Ocotillos (candle bush) red, the Hedgehog Cactus (hedgehog cactus) purple, the Prickly Pear Cactus yellow flowers, the Creosote with dark green leaves and numerous small yellow flowers.
We enjoy an afternoon at our covered patio listening to the Cactus Wren (Cactus Wren) and read fascinating stories of settlers and Indians in the 19th Century.
Tags sure it is in-bred ride on the little traffic I-8 to Yuma, where we arrive shortly after noon. We visited an old prison. Esther but I can not be locked up. It is now only a museum, where between 1876 to 1909 3069 prisoners, including 39 women were imprisoned. It is situated on the banks of the Colorado River, a river in a pitiful compared to what it was at the Grand Canyon.
thunder on a railway bridge over long freight trains, which I of course for our granddaughter Emily, a railway and aircraft fan, film must!

Today we continue to El Centro to the west shore of Salton Sea, one in 70 m below sea level nearby lake. In 1905 the waters of the Colorado River broke through the levees of an irrigation canal, flowed freely for two years in the basin of an alkaline dry lake in ancient times and was like this (again) the Salton Sea. There would we do again, hope to see many birds and then reach on Thursday, the Anza Borrego Desert State Park

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mountain roads and flowers Arizona

Originally we had planned to drive to Tucson, the beautiful road # 191 north and in the national parks in the area of to hike the Colorado River. Due to cold temperatures and heavy snowfall, we decided to stay in the south and even up to the Big Bend (Big Bend of the Rio Grande) in go to Texas. Now we still had an opportunity to # 191 - traveled to - from north to south. This trip was a unique experience.
After a cold night - in the RV 3 ° in the morning - we warm ourselves from the sun and still talk with the German couple, before we leave at 10 clock. Today, we gain an hour in Arizona, because that State which, although known as New Mexico Mountain Time, summer time (daylight) does not adopt.
We drive the # 180 crossing north, the San Francisco River and go to Luna after the winter ski Alpine. Here we reach an altitude of 2400 m. From Alpine, we now ahead of our dream Highway 191 south. During the following 160 km long and about a three-hour drive through the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest, we meet not only place and only in Hannagan Meadow is a small, yet hardly awakened from hibernation restaurant. The cars that we encounter are to count on one hand. The road leads right up to 2800 m, falls and rises steeply once again. Some routes are operating only at 20 MPH. Snow walls, which mainly come from the last big snowfall three weeks ago, lined the roadsides. We thrive on the dense forests. A variety of conifers, of which we know only a few lined the street. Stream, which are fed by melting water bubbling, the Road. In the distance we see again and again high snow mountains: to the east of the Tularosa Mountains, southwest of the Pinaleno Mountains with the 10,717 ft. high Mt Graham, at whose feet we will arrive today evening. We would have spent the next night somewhere in the beautiful forest, but the campgrounds are in this level all still covered in snow and therefore closed. In addition, it would be in the height between 2200 and 2400 m at night very cold.



comes after 160 km, 10 km from Clifton then, cold shower ': We hardly have to leave the National Forest, defaced, a huge mining area to the foothills of the mountains. The company Phelps Dodge Mining Company is building in Morenci copper on a surface, require for their passage we have a good quarter of an hour, starting. Since 1937, a whole mountain is worn away. Miles of water pipes and conveyor belts carry the terraced slopes along, huge trucks, the wheels of 3.6 m in diameter, can load 270 tons, cost $ 2 million per vehicle, crashing on winding trails and swirl the red or yellow dust high aloft. In Morenci and Clifton are hundreds of bald's barracks, a railway runs from the south to here. Good news: the need for the removal of water is recycled, some several times.
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The # 191 continues as a well-developed highway. At the sign to Guthrie, we suddenly see in the distance yellow ridges. Esther is shocked: she says, here are copper and gold credits. This is not so: The mountain slopes are covered in a bright yellow flowering poppy (Mexican Poppy), mixed with carpets of purple and white flowers. During the next 10 km are accompanied on both sides of the road sprawling fields of flowers.



At 17 clock we reached - after a driving time of 6 hours - Our goal: the Campground of the Roper Lake SP. A very nice place, a small, deep blue lake, behind the snowy Pinaleno Mountains. It is wonderfully warm. Many birds can be seen. A dozen Gambel's Quail run around and pick out the seeds, gliding down from Cottonwood, on the ground, Yellowheaded Blackbirds (blackbirds with yellow head and yellow breast) congregate in the trees of the square, ducks swimming in the water and come begging at our location. Swarms of swallows fly out of the reeds and the hunt for the mosquitoes.

The next day we take a short tour around the lake. Then we drive the Swift Road 5.14 Miles up the Pinaleno Mountains. The 35-mile mountain road that leads up to 3000 m altitude, is open only to miles 20th
At the Wet Canyon Picnic Area, at 1,800 m altitude, we see blooming Arizona alder (Alnus oblongifolia; Erlenart). On a small walk, we encounter countless lizards. Up to this height in the 19th Century, strong timber and beaten by brothers Jacobson processed in a sawmill. Grown are only bushes and small trees juniper (Juniper).


from 2000 m altitude, we see the familiar Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa), Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), White Fir (Abies concolor) and aspen (Populus tremuloides, quaking aspen). Small, yet surrounded by deep piles of snow holiday cottages are hidden in the forest - a fat target for forest fires! We provide the RV camping at Twilight, at 2250 m altitude and begin a hike on a trail that leads to an elevated place. But after 20 minutes we must repent, there is too much snow. While we enjoy the diversity of coniferous trees, on the other hand, we beelenden the great forest fire sites. After all, to grow certain amount senn points back to small conifers. The forest fires are usually caused by careless campers who have deleted their Camp Fire does not care. Camp Fire one of the Americans as the oversized cars, their engines rumbling, they can often run unnecessary. Even at high risk of forest fires - and there is often - may be gezeuselt, even if only with charcoal! do

Now we are on the trip to Chiricahua National Monument, although we know from our last trip here, but in which we must walk once again.

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In the forests of New Mexico

Our route (5th-7.4)..


On Monday, 5.4, we leave the beautiful city on the Rio Penasco and continue with mild slope with right-way traffic many resorts over. The pass should be roughly at 2650 m. On the dark side is still quite a lot of snow. From the top we can see in the distance the White Sands Dunes as a localized, turbulent sea of fog.

Then the journey goes quickly downhill with 6% slope. The gear in the D (Drive) and as always switched on Tow Haul, automatically turns to the 3rd and then in the second Transition. I need the brake at all before.
In Alamogordo, we know from 2006 here, 'Esther goes to the hairdresser to it in record time the hair for a song short, but good cuts. In the distance, ie, 50 km north again we see the 3600 m high snow-capped Sierra Blanca. After shopping at the pricey organic food shop Nature's party we go to Oliver Lee SP, where we enjoy a completely flat course and a view of the plains and the Organ Mountains, Las Cruces lies behind them. The sun is burning, but it blows between a strong, gusty wind. In the RV it is acceptable 30 degrees.
After lunch and a siesta, we make ourselves at 15.30 clock in the Dog Canyon National Recreation Trail, which we wander through a good half. By the end, it would Trail 5.5 miles and 1,000 meters have been! A little too much for the afternoon and our arthritic feet! Within two hours we walk up to the Line Cabin (2.9 miles, at 1880 m, height difference 480). It is warm, 30 ° by 16 clock, clock by 18 or 27 °. First, it is 200 m upwards, then almost an hour at a constant height above the canyon and finally we reach a plateau where once agriculture was perhaps operated. As a strong wind blowing, walking is acceptable. We are located in the west of the Lincoln National Forest. Only after 19 clock we're back, just in time for sunset, which took place today at 19.22 clock. On the western sky give Venus and Mercury come together.


We enjoy the hot shower and pull us back soon in our RV. The silence and the view of the plain and the Organ Mountains in the distance are wonderful. The next morning we meet
before departure of Manfred, born 1942, who emigrated in 1963 from the Ruhr area and has since lived in New Mexico. He acted including spare parts for Mercedes and BMW. He has a son in the vicinity of El Paso a house and lives with his dog some time in each of his VW pickup, leaves his white hair grow on the trips. With its 89-year-old mother, who repeatedly for months with her friend comes to visit him, he has, thanks to Google (satellite phone) close contacts. He knows the area well, was a hundred times the Dog Canyon Trail went to the cabin, a few years ago in chest-deep snow. 14 days ago have been lying here on the campground 20 cm of snow. He is critical of the Americans compared with regrets that the park not to Fancois-Jean "Frenchy" Rochas, one was named around 1885 from southern France eingwanderten French. This model had here and operated agriculture wure of Texans who were indebted to him, were shot. Frenchy had good access to the Apaches and had driven them barter. With a cart, he was always the 100 km to Las Cruces and went back with 500 kg of flour. Part of it was probably intended for the Indians. In its day it was here, where even large grazing areas, but the land was overgrazed by cattle, then sheep. Instead of grass now grow cacti. The local farmers vehemently refused to waive the livestock industry. Manfred also knows many plants. He is brewing in the tea leaves of the Creosote himself and freed his dog with a Creosotesud of ticks. Too bad that we have not met Manfred yesterday! He could give us many other valuable information.
Against strong west wind, we have to fight all over the onward journey. Take I-10, the machine cuts out at 55 MPH, in the second third Gang! Finally we come to Silver City, we had visited in 2006. In Diane's Restaurant, we eat very well. The forsythia blooming, and the Cottonwood (poplar) carry out the first light-green leaves. After a half hour ride on the # 15, we arrive at 16.20 clock in the Visitor Gila Cliff Dwellings Centre of NF (National Forest), just before it closes. The drive through the forested mountains like us very much. This is in sharp curves on a narrow road up to 2400 m and 1700 m down again and again up and down. On the down side there is still snow. The two campgrounds are not accessible to us, because a bridge was damaged by flooding in January 2010. But we must stay free just before the bridge to a parking lot.
washed after a nice evening walk on which we encounter a deer, our sandals in the river (West Fork Gila River) and eat in the RV. Half a dozen deer graze next to the parking lot. The next morning
We wake up with ice-cold nose. The thermometer reads 0 °! At the morning meal in the RV, we observe a mole, ausbuddelt of a hole next to us and the earth carefully creates a circle on the surface.

We have adapted to the customs of the country: We travel by 8 clock by car to the toilet next to the Visitor Center, with the difference that our approach attaches to the toilet a mile, but most Americans already 100 meters away your car before using it! Then we walk across the bridge a mile to the Gila Cliff Dwellings, which open at 9 clock. About this time it has almost no visitors. A nice path leads into the canyon and then up to the cave dwellings in the rock. Half of the six caves are accessible on stairs and ladders. An English couple who have committed themselves as volunteers for three months here, gives us information willingly. We also see the spot where it has been concluded on the basis of urine traces that here, skins were tanned. Below the Gila River rushes past mighty cottonwood, which have not yet set no leaves.


go after the obligatory coffee break we returned on a detour to Silver City, where we buy, breathe and pack in a Chinese restaurant meal.
first place at half past three clock We continued the trip on the # 180 and enter the valley of the San Francisco River at the foot of the Mogollon Mountains. Glenwood shortly after we find a mile on a dusty drive inland a small, comprising about 10 pitches private Camp Ground, from the 8 places of permanent tenants and one by a German couple who arrived shortly before us are busy. We have again been lucky. The site is located under mighty oaks and juniper trees. A neighbor is equal to assist us, as it looks like we are not able to open the sewer cover. He once had 14 cats. 11 of them it the coyotes or hawks have won.
We talk with the German couple, at 4.3. started in Phoenix and in the north of the Grand Canyon temperatures of -7 ° encountered, and also in the Catalina SP 10 days before our stay there for three days according to fixed, because the road was spilled due to heavy rainfall across a river. They could take no walks, where you even wade through a river must be known, was traveling with them to the stream.
A pensioner who spends the most time on this course, knows to tell us much. She knows lots of flowers, has already javelinas (a type of wild boar), seen coyotes, deer, etc., and photographed. She also tells of the great drought. Usually it rains from November to January, and fill out the groundwater and the reservoirs on. The second rainy season, called the monsoon takes place in high summer. These rains are very heavy and make some roads impassable. Last year, fell out of both rainy seasons. Springs and streams dried up, dead cattle in the pastures. It seems to us the whole area very dry. In the past 41 / 2 weeks, we've hardly even seen clouds. The pensioner us with their Internet connection and offers us generous and the connection of our neighbors. So today we can immediately put the message in the blog.

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From Alpine to Carlsbad Caverns in the Sacramento Mountains

Our route:
(top left in red: our route in 2006)


morning blowing in the university town of Alpine A strong wind from the west that lasts all day. We drive max. to tip over 55 miles per hour. because the RV is susceptible to cross winds and when a truck passed us, is imminent. We visit the Fort Davis, a large-scale military fortress which is now established as a National Monument-consuming again. The story is here (in Texas!) Worked differently than in the western United States. The presentation of the Indians reminds too much of cheap westerns. We will then move us into a canyon and then into the Wild Rose Pass into the vast, barren plateau, with nests as Pecos. There is no rest stop on the road. So we eat by 14 clock in Orla, a small ghost town, something small and then continue the same.

Near Carlsbad, we turn into the # 62 and reach even 16 clock (thanks to Mountain Time, we gain an hour) White's City at the entrance to the Carlsberg Caverns National Park, we have some trouble getting a decent place on the to find Campground. Everything is neglected. Either of electricity or the water does not, dog waste is on the lawn, instead of the toilet doors have just torn down curtains, the only group showers. Internet reception is useless. Here live in rickety, barely roadworthy RV's obviously marginalized, unkempt people with rotten teeth and greasy hair. After the well-kept Place in Alpine, a cold shower! Finally, we find on the 'pull through' an acceptable place. An old, toothless man who lives in an RV and works at the gas station there, kindly provided an additional seal with which we can make the water connection finally sealed. For dinner, there are organic food in the microwave oven: salmon with broccoli and cranberry rice.
drive it with a shuttle we light the 6.8 miles to the Visitor Centre of the caves. RV's are not allowed. The huge parking lots will soon be overflowing!
Of the three possible tours in the cave system we do today two, the third, led by a ranger, we have booked for Sunday 10 clock. We rise with audio guide, which provides us with valuable information through the wide entrance in many switchbacks descend to 230 m below the surface.

The approximately three miles of roads are paved, secured by a low wall and a continuous rail, mostly wheelchair accessible. After an initial one and a half hour tour through the 'Corridor', we take the lift a brief minute, the 230 m within again. After a lunch in the restaurant and a short film show we take the lift back down to our second hike to the Big Room '. This hall is as big as 14 football fields and up 100 m high.
The Caverns are located in the northeastern foothills of the Guadeloupe Mountains, which here rises about 300 m of the seemingly immeasurable level, which we crossed yesterday. This level was 250 million years ago an enormous lake (inland sea), on whose banks formed from various organisms (molluscs and algae) a reef, which took off after the silting of the lake from the plane as karst mountains. 60 million years ago ate acids (hydrogen sulfide gas), the depth of the present in the oil and gas layers came up and mixed with the leaking water, holes in the limestone. 3 million years ago formed a 150 km long penetrating Wasseer cave system and let come up blankets. The largest boulder that came loose from the ceiling, is the Iceberg Rock, a 200,000-tonne structure. Because such a collapse occurs only once every million years, we feel relatively safe. Since colored minerals largely absent, the structures are (stalactites, stalagmites, etc.) mainly of a white color, but some have reddish (iron) or black crossed (manganese). The temperature in the cave is through a constant exchange of air is always 13 degrees, humidity 90%. Therefore, bacteria that feed on the stone, and small organisms living well.
beginning of the 20th Century saw one evening, the 16-year-old Jim White rise in the distance, black clouds, which he regarded as the smoke of a fire. Because fire can be devastating in this arid region, can see he was going. The alleged smoke were hundreds of thousands of bats that flew out from an opening in the floor. Curious, he climbed with a homemade ladder into the depths and explored in the following years, more than 100 visits a large part of the cave system available today. The bats also use today, from spring to autumn this cave as a resting and nesting site during the day. At night they eat insects and produce 2.5 tons during the day a suitable amount of guano. The bats spend the winter in Mexico. This guano built from Jim and drove it for commercial citrus groves in California. He also left curious tourists (of course, empty) guano buckets on a rope winds down into the cave and offered guided tours. Later, wooden stairs were built. A cave tour was slow and took 5 hours. Soon, these caves a national park in 1952, four lifts installed. Today, the Carlsbad Caverns world cultural heritage.
The next day - it's Easter - we take a guided tour of the fantastic "decorated" Kings Palace. The atmosphere in the underground halls is overwhelming. We experience moments of complete darkness and silence. In this Space were also shot scenes.


At noon we are back in White's City and drive off. In Carlsberg, we are in the Chinese restaurant with an exquisite dragon full, rich buffet bellies - and this for only $ 8 per person! We intended to stay at Brantley Lake SP. The plant has not convinced us from afar. So we take a good two hours ahead on the # 82, go further and further into the Sacramento Mountains, finally see the forest, a river and by 17 clock to 2040 m altitude in a wonderfully Cottonwood (poplar) located campground with all amenities. Everything is very well maintained. After the last two Nights a hit! Besides us, only two RV's are there. White-tailed deer graze nearby. Turkeys grazing in a meadow adjacent. Simply wonderful!



morning it is over a 2600 m high pass (Stelvio height) and then down to Alamogordo. The three peaks in the distance are still covered in snow. The pass road will be easy to navigate. Snow chains, we have not included.

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Big Bend

Our route from Las Cruces to Alpine:
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After a quiet night in Van Horn Esther by 8 Clock I wake from deep sleep. We had gone to bed at midnight and the temperature was comfortably cool. The train horn I heard in my dream made me wake up but not this.

The 200 mile drive to Big Ben is not sensational. First 70 miles flat, dry grasslands. Then southeast down over undulating terrain to Presidio. We buy in a store, where they speak only English. Then we follow the left bank of the Rio Grande to Lajitas. We are committed to the well-built # 170 as on a roller coaster with a 15% climb and descent, up and down. The special kick it: Before we come to a climax, you know not, as the road that seems to stop suddenly goes: straight ahead, left or right. This really is fun to guess - and also for survival. Obviously we always win. Finally healing, thereby entering into the huge (3,000 km2) Big Bend National Park Before we make at the only rest area that there are over 100 miles on roller coaster, a lunch break under the shade of tipis on the banks of the little rivulet, which Rio Grande is called and here a large deflection (bend) makes to the northeast. On the Mexican side it is called Rio Bravo. Most likely the two names from the west to be known. Its water it loses in many reservoirs to the irrigation systems for agriculture. The 3000 km long river, which at the last 1800 km, the border between Texas and Mexico is about, not even the sea, but ceases to exist before, like the Yellow River in China.


The Basin Campground Chison we struggle to find a free parking space, but had really good fortune: a very quiet place on the edge of the terrain with stunning views of the mountains. Here, too, at 1650 m altitude, the temperature to 30 °. In the RV, we measure 35 °. To cool us, we are therefore working in the ..... (S.letzen blog). Surprisingly, it is at night on our level considerably warmer (the thermometer does not fall below 19 degrees) than on the river bank, where it is at most 10 °. Probably save the mighty Rhyolitfelsen around the sun warmth.

If one approaches the Chison Mountains, one can not imagine from a distance that lies behind the bare hills rich in vegetation. Chison Basin resembles a caldera, which is completely surrounded by a rugged towering mountain range that form the rim of a (thankfully extinct) volcano. In reality, the rocks are the backdrop spared by erosion remaining mass, which erupted ash and lava from volcanoes in front of 42 million years and have from Magna, which gushed forth from the depths formed.


At 18 we will make a small clock, a half-hour Trail (Chison Basin Trail) and were in time before the search for Mountain Lions (Cougars, mountain lions) are among the campers in their evening meal back. Since we have compared to most Americans but nothing enticing offer, we feel safe. Of them there throughout the park to 20 animals. The black bears that were eradicated in 1940, immigrated from Mexico in 1980 her again. Today you have a good dozen. They all have their defined territory. At the campground we see three white-tailed deer that can not drive by a barking dog. All these animals are the last ice age that began after the major vegetation has become home.


At 20.30 Clock is a Ranger in the amphitheater called a slide show on global climate and brings facts that actually know all: from "Reuse", "Reduce" and "Recycle". All too eager to hear of course. After the presentation of a fairly large number of participants traveling by car, the 500 m back to the campground!

morning at 8 clock, it is still warm 19 °. A pleasant feeling, sometimes a night not to have cold. Shortly after 9 clock we make our way. After only 1.6 miles drive, we park at the trailhead and start at 9.50 clock a beautiful hike the Lost Mine Trailhead, named after a silver mine, where insurgent locals who were enslaved by the Spaniards and work under terrible conditions in the mines for silver, they had their oppressors murdered in the mine and threw it zuschütteten. Thus, it is reported. The beautiful walk, which was created in the 30's by the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) in an employment program of the United States at the time of major economic crisis in the only just established park leads, slowly with constant slight slope after 4 km and 320 meters to a stunning vantage point . The climb out mostly in the shadows, upon return however, we are exposed to the scorching sun. Along the way there are 24 markers that indicate a sight that explains in a brochure are. We see next to already-known plants and trees like the Sotol, Nolina (Bear Grass or grass basket # 18), agave, Alligator Juniper, among others, the Mexican drooping juniper (or weeping juniper). Unfortunately it was in the last few months here is very dry. The vegetation is dry, the roads are dusty.


we eat at 13.30 clock in the lodge, a fine salad, just visit the Visitor Center and then drink in the 34 ° warm RV for a coffee. For a siesta, it is too hot.
against 17 clock we meet again on the way: the Window Trail. He leads 200 m down towards Rio Grande. Soon we reach a small canyon where present in the washed-basin water ponds. Insects, a Fröschchen and beside it a alligator lizard who wants to bring in vain in a crevice in front of my camera to safety. On the way we see ourselves completely unknown shrubs. The one we call amateur botanist Erdnussglyzinie because he wears as the wisteria-like flowers and produces fruit that are similar to peanuts, and hides its interior red nuts. Another we are calling Judas tree, which we know from Greece. He agrees with him but agreed only in the color of the flowers! The end of the canyon, we reach the rock-hewn stairs. It opens out like a window into the Mexican mountains. The water, when it actually times which has crashed then as a high waterfall in the depths. Because we do not want that, we return to, now the scorching sun in the back. 31 °, the thermometer shows when we rise by 19 clock back to the campground.


ask us to dinner the campers friendly neighbors at their table in thought. The couple is from Moab, and each stayed in a small triangular trailer that is pulled down for the night. There are obviously Republicans, with the Rangers yesterday's speech did not agree. Under Bush we had never raised such issues in a NP! The night is uncomfortably warm. Even by 3 clock, the thermometer shows 25 °!

The next morning we head to Big Bend Village. There, the day 37 ° are measured. We walk only a short canyon. The river (the water here as the equivalent of the Inn at Engadine!) Winds there through a deeply incised rock barrier. It is terribly hot. From the Mexican shore, a man wades through the hip-deep water over, another on horseback. Illegal immigrants! But where they already want to go? After they expect 400 km f. .. dry desert! They only come over to earn a few dollars with carved walking sticks, small jewelry or her song, which echoes through the canyon. In the scorching heat, we do not stay and even less sleep.


We left shortly after noon, the 'Big' River and drive two hours north to reach the small university town of Alpine - that sounds so right on the snow and mountains! Here at 1500 m the temperature is really pleasant.