Good old V8 gas guzzler times vs 4 WD Diesel power

1991 I travelled for for the first time for about 3 months through the US and Canada, in Los Angeles I bought this Ford Ltd Station Wagon 1978. 

I guess this was when I really got the taste for road tripping the Americas, even though it was the North of 'em only. 2WD vs 4WD some 20 years later.

BC Canada - Stay Tuned

I am currently working on the first Canada Photo-Gallery with Photos of the Province British Columbia, stay tuned for more Photos to come soon. 

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

I can not really judge what is true and what is not about all that has been posted and written about the garbage that is building up to huge patches in our oceans. What I do know and have prove for, is that the beaches are covered with trash, mainly plastic trash. 

Please help by spending a second thought whether you really need that plasic bag that is offered to you tomorrow when shopping. Wouldn't your food look much better in real plates at your pool party rather than using through away plastic dishes?

Find many conserning pictures about what I found at the beaches of the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of California, the Gulf of Alaska and in the Caribean Sea HERE.

Check what Wikipedia is saying about the subject HERE.

Click here if you would like to see my more detailed post in german with many links to reports and media voices to the garbage patches in our oceans. 

HERE you can find an official report of the UNEP.

Thank you for helping to minimize the trash in our Oceans.

the blue truck

Since month over month you seem to like the gallery about the transformation of an old Toyota Land Cruiser to my home the most and I get more clicks on those pictures than on any others, I have started a second blue truck gallery. Here you will find nothing but pictures of the blue truck on the road, blue truck in the mud, blue truck in the desert, blue truck on the highway, blue truck, blue truck, blue truck... until you can't see it anymore. - Have fun!

80'000 Kilometers and going

There is a new Photo Gallery on-line. Ever since I left the house of my friends in New Jersey in October 2010, I have taken a picture, just a straight shot out of the windshield, when the odometer hit another one thousand kilometers. 

No matter whether night or day...

...dry or...

...cold, 

...wet or...

...rainy. Just every 1'000 k's I hit the shutter, by now 80 times and hopefully there will be many more pictures to enlarge the gallery.

Enjoy it!

First Canadian Bear - One Year Ago

40'000 kilometers or exactly one year ago I have seen my first bear in Canada, while I was cruising through the forests from BC to Alberta. 

French Kissing

No public coffee drinking?

Dempster Highway Camouflage

Dempster Highway is the road that brought me to Inuvik, the most northern point of Canada reachable by car (in summer, during winter there is an ice road that gets you to Aklavik and Tuktoyaktuk). The road is dirt or gravel. While heading north over the arctic circle I had a lot of rain and as a result blended perfectly camouflaged into the territory. This was at my camp at Tombstone Park just before heading up towards crossing the first pass on the northbound trip on Dempster Highway.

The airfields marked on the map are with the exception of two just on the highway, share the road...

New Tires

The left hand rear tire kept losing air, so I installed the spare last night at Little Salmon Lake Campground just off Hwy 4. When I tried to repair the tire, my tool to push the little repair thing in broke. So now I drove back South to Whitehorse, Canadian Tire could get me 4 BF Goodrich's All Terrain, so I have them all replaced. This should keep me flat free through the Yukon and Alaska.

Actually tried to get them changed a couple of days ago in Grand Prarie, got there on a Saturday, was told the tires would be there Monday morning around 10am. So I camped on near by Bear Lake for two nights. As I got there on Monday I was told they would not arrive before Wednesday... Boah... So, I decided to let them sit on their order and move on and have them replaced later on somewhere. - Here I am.

It is very beautiful up here in the North. I have seen bears, mouse, elk and much more, most of all mosquitos, lots of them. The preferred way to meet them is to see them smashed at my windshield. 

Beautiful Kayaking on Whatshan Lake, BC

It was not just fantastically beautiful to camp at Whatshan Lake, it was also fantastic to explore the lake and its wild coast line with my kayak. I have advance from being a happy camper to being a happy camper & a happy kayaker.

The blue truck meets the big truck

This is the world largest truck, built in the late 60ies by GM, first served in mines in California, before it was moved (on a whole series of train cars) to BC where it served in coal mining until it was retired a couple of years ago.

4 wheel drive recommended...

...I guess they are kind of serious when they post that along the street.

Probably this Dodge Voyager will never make it out of the mountains again.

Don't know what this was, but they finally have room in the garage for something new.