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.

The blue truck has two new buddies...

The red boat...

...a foldable touring seakayak. When I am on the road this folds together and fits in a large duffle bag. Packed like that it fits inside the truck under the fridge, that is where it safely awaits its next adventures on water.

And...

...the black bike, a foldable mountain bike. This comes in very handy, not just as a good alternative to hiking but also when I am parked at some place, have the roof of the truck poped-up and a lot of the gear out; I can just take the bike for short trips to get groceries, do a little tour around the area or alike. Kind of like the Americans pull a full size vehicle behind their RV's.

When on tour the black bike gets very cozy on the side of the truck where I have made an off-road capable bike fixture. Like that it is not sticking up into the trees off the roof or shakes on the back door of the truck like an old freezing grandma in the rumble seat of a Ford Model A.

 

Snow, lots of it

Check my german blog http://thebluetruck.blogspot.com/2011/05/viel-schnee-im-yellow-stone-national.html?spref=fb for 2 pictures of Yellow Stone National Park.

Beautiful Places to Camp in Utah

At Monument Valley

Dixie National Forest, just above Natural Bridges National Monument

Route 66

Alaska? Yukon?

No. Arizona. National Forest Road 305 in Kaibab National Forest, just south of Grand Canyon.

Road trips are great - as long as the parks are not shut down...

That was yesterday as I was heading south through the Petrified Forest National Park. What an interesting landscape. Whole trees made of stone and millions of years old.

Today I am camping in Glenn Canyon, as there is a severe weather warning for a winter, yes a winter storm for northern Arizona I thought it might be good to come down some feet from the high eleveations I have been the last couple of days. The other challange might be whether the park is still open tomorrow. Should the goverment shut down tonight, that would also mean that the National Parks would all be shut down by tomorrow. The ranger came already by and told me just before I paid my camping fees at the self pay stations, that I should not check in for more than one night as I might have to leave tomorrow.

We'll see, if I am snowed in they can't through me out...

Good night.