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Friday, January 14, 2011

Arizona, January 2011 - Snow or desert, pick you choice...

There are some things you don't show on a blog: flat tires, anger, tireness, red mud all over, wrong road, snow.... it has been a little rough lately. Oh well, life goes on!

Payson, Arizona: Laurel and Devin are cooking a SOUFFLE AU FROMAGE for my 2months trip anniversary!

Roosevelt Lake, where I see my first Seguaro Cactus!!
Tonga national forest looks more like a green desert to me...

Yuccas and white rock camp in the the Apache reservation

Safford, 14-01-10: Birdwatching with Monica and Paula in the desert.
Monica adopted me for a day, as I stopped at the library, wondering
where to sleep tonight!

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Go South!!!! Utah to Arizona, 01/2011

It is too cold.

I had to sleep in a hotel because I was scared to freeze alive one night in Blanding, UT.

The Navajo Indian Reservation is the biggest in the U.S. It is magic.

Monument valley offered me a spectacular sunset and the sunrise was even better!

And then STOP. The back wheel broke. Hitchhiking to flagstaff. And here I am in civilization again: bikeshop, internet, tourists.

Camp in a Wash, in front of Monument Valley

Moab, UT New Year 2011

Moab. the Red Rock country.

Met another hard core bike-vagabond, Shane.

Spent New Year jamming music and spinning fire pois at Trickster and Becca's, my couch hosts.

Moab has a very nice community spirit. It feels good being here.

Cold hike with shane

Kokopelly and dancers

One of the famous red arches.

Utah, Christmas Break 2010-2011

Utah's weather is stormy right now. Time for some social life.

First experience couchsurfing. It is like hichhiking for a bed. I love it.

Christmas with Tim's family in Salt Lake City, the Mormon capital of Utah.

And then on the road again!

Bud & Caroll, my first couch hosts in St George.

Burning Man party with Phidias, SLC.

couchsurfers waiting for the wave....

Bye bye Tim, got to make it to Moab before the next snowstorm!!

Las Vegas - stop camping.... (december 2010)

Ken and Donna, the crazy bikers of Vegas

That car keeps following me. The sun is setting.... I guess I will have to hide in a ditch tonight...
But the next morning, this group of bikers invite me to their party and I end up at Donna's house!
Rest, shower, laughs and this sentence that is so true:

Life's journey is not to arrive safely at the Grave,
in a well preserve body,
but rather to skid in sideways
totally worn out shouting
Holy Shit, What a ride!

Mojave Desert, California - december 2010

Desert, more desert.
Sometimes this silence scares me.
Every night I ask the universe to accept me for the night.
I have to say I feel very small and vulnerable in this big desert.

Amboy Chloride lake