In May 2005, my friend Klaus Trummer and I started on a 3 week round trip in the Southwest of USA, visiting the States of California, Nevada and Arizona. This map shows the route we followed on our Journey.

Our journey started in San Francisco. From there we headed towards Palo Alto to visit a Powwow, a great convention of native Americans at the site of the Stanford University. The next day we drove south along the Pacific coast on the famous Highway 1 . After a short stop in Santa Barbara and a night stay in Ventura Beach we headed for our next destination Los Angeles. There we stayed at a Motel 6 in Hollywood. We visited Beverly Hills with the famous Rodeo Drive, strolled around the skyscraper district in Downtown L.A., and spent a day at the Universal Studios. Before heading towards San Diego, we also visited the most famous coastline of L.A. - Venice Beach. Arriving at the most southern location of our journey, we strolled through San Diego Downtown and spent a whole day at SeaWorld. Then we drove eastbound to the old ghost town of Calico. The next destination on our visiting tour was the Grand Canyon where we stayed for 2 days admiring this spectacular wonder of nature. Next we proceeded towards Monument Valley , followed by the Bryce Canyon and back into more inhabited areas. As a complete contrast to the contemplative natural landscape, we dived into the world of glitter in  Las Vegas , where we reached the temperature limit for sight seeing, about 40 deg. Celsius. But what was really worth seeing was Las Vegas by night. After having spent 2 days in this marvellous city, we headed for Sequoia National Park where we visited the famous huge trees. As the last destination on our 3000 mile trip through 3 US States, we headed again towards San Francisco where we spent our last free day before taking off for good old Europe.


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