USA-Tour 1997
"13'000 Meilen USA - Canada"
Gesamtreisezeit: 93 Tage (29. Juli - 28. Oktober 1997)
Gesamtstrecke: 20'886 km (13'053 miles)
Route:
San Francisco - "Chinatown" "Pier 39" "Golden Gate Park" "Golden Gate Bridge" "Stadtrundfahrt" - Lake Tahoe - Elko - "Bonnieville-Speedway (Great Salt Lake Desert)" "Mormonen Tempel (Salt Lake City)" - Ogden - Jackson - "Grand Teton N.P." "Yellowstone N.P." - West Yellowstone - Helena - "Glacier N.P." - Whitefish - "Kootenay N.P." "Banff N.P." - Canmore - "Yoho N.P." "Glacier N.P." "Mount Revelstoke N.P." - Kamloops - "Garibaldi Prov.P. (Whistler)" - Vancouver - "Stanley Park" "Gastown" "Canada Place" "Harbour Center Tower" "Lions Gate Bridge" "Vancouver Island" - Port Angeles - "Mount St. Helens N.Volc.M." - Seaside - Yachats - "Oregon Dunes N.R.A." "Redwood N.P." - Eureka - "Humboldt Redwoods S.P." - Santa Rosa - "Sonoma Valley" "Golden Gate Bridge" "Lombard-Street" - San Francisco - "Monterey Bay Aquarium" - Monterey - "Big Sur" - San Simeon - Los Angeles - "Venice Beach" "Gold Valley (Perries)" - San Clemente - Victorville - Las Vegas - "Valley of Fire S.P." "Zion N.P." - Panguitch - "Red Canyon" "Bryce Canyon N.P." - Torrey - "Capitol Reef N.P." "Bicentennial Hwy 95" "Natural Bridges N.M." - Moab - "Arches Canyon N.P." "Telluride (Skigebiet)" - Cortez - "Mesa Verde N.P. "Durango-Silverton-Railway" - Durango - "Million-Dollar Hwy 550" "Black Canyon of the Gunnison N.M." "Curecanti N.R.A." - Gunnison - "Breckenridge (Skigebiet)" - Frisco - "Grand Lake" - Grand Lake - "Rocky Mountain N.P." - Boulder - Gunnison - Pagosa Springs - "Pagosa Hot Springs" "Cumbres and Toltec Railroad" "Rio Grande Gorge Bridge" - Taos - "Taos Pueblo" " St. Francis of Assisi Mission" - Santa Fe - "Bandelier N.M." - Albuquerque - "Salinas Pueblo Missions N.M." - Alomogordo - Carlsbad - "Carlsbad Cavern N.P." "Guadalupe Mountains N.P." - El Paso - "Ciudad Juarez (Mexico)" "Gila Cliff Dwellings N.M." - Silver City - Show Low - "Open Pit Copper Mine" - Willcox - "Willcox Dry Lake" "Bisbee Oldtown" "Tombstone Oldtown" - Benson - "Saguaro N.M." - Tucson - "Biosphere 2" - Globe - "Apache Trail" - Winslow - "Meteor Crater" "Oak Creek Canyon" - Sedona - Wickenburg - "Lake Havasu S.P." - Laughlin - Kingman - "Hoover Dam" - Las Vegas - "Lake Mead N.R.A." "Route 66" - Hackberry - El Centro - San Diego - Indio - "Joshua Tree N.P." - Palm Springs - "Big Bear Lake" - Victorville - "Angeles Crest Hwy 2" - Los Angeles - Pismo Beach - Santa Barbara - Laguna Beach - Los Angeles
Bemerkung:
Nachdem wir uns die ersten Tage in San Francisco anklimatisiert hatten, genossen wir vom 2. - 21. August 1997 mit der Edelweiss-Biketravel-Gruppe eine Tour von San Francisco über Kanada zurück nach San Francisco. Die 4 Tage von San Francisco nach Los Angeles wurden wir von Marco's Eltern und einem bekannten Schweizer-Ehepaar begleitet. Und von da an waren wir die restlichen 63 Tage alleine "on the road".Freiheit pur !!!
Marco auf dem
Bonnieville-Speedway Salzsee