Big Sur CA This is it! After 5.437 miles/8.750 km of driving, we've finally come to the end of our U.S. North to South adventure we started in Barrow Alaska (planes and boats were also involved). Today we cross into California at Lake Tahoe, slide into San Francisco, discover Big Sur and…
Ford F-150 and the 1880 Eureka Opera House. In Nevada we've explored the Extraterrestrial Highway up to Area 51 - or the gate leading to it - as well as Highway 50, nicknamed the Loneliest Road in America. Today we zoom in on one of the tiny outposts along the…
Hanging out with the local aliens near Area 51. I've got two car keys instead of one for Bob after our Zion episode, so we are all set to cross Nevada to the west. First stop: the elusive Area 51, then the Loneliest Road in America: Route 50. Fasten your seat belts! If…
Zion National Park UT Now that I know Bob is a closeted rallyman in a tradesman suit, I decided to reward my Ram 2500 crew cab with a short trip to Zion National Park back north in Utah. Turns out this would be the theatre of the most challenging episode of this…
Sunset on the Grand Canyon North Rim, AZ After crossing Utah from north to south, admiring a multitude of National Parks along the way, we now travel to the National Park that tops them all: Grand Canyon. Check out all previous iterations of this U.S. North to South photo series here as we…
1960 Chevrolet Viking 6.0 in Ferron UT After Grand Teton National Park, we continue our North to South exploration of the United States in a Ram 2500 tradesman diesel baptised Bob. Today, we cross the state of Utah entirely to arrive at Kanab at the border with Arizona. On the way,…
Spectacular Grand Teton National Park, WY After Yellowstone National Park, we now drive a short 80 miles/130 km south to the adjoining Grand Teton National Park, a lot quieter and in my view more spectacular. You can check out the entire U.S. North to South series here (we started in Barrow,…
Bob chatting with a brother Ram 2500 in Yellowstone National Park, WY. After Glacier National Park and Bozeman in Montana, we continue south and cross into Wyoming to discover the United States' oldest National Park: Yellowstone. You can check out the entire U.S. North to South series here (we started in…
Main street in Bozeman MT After Glacier National Park, we continue south to a pit stop in Bozeman, still in the Montana state. This quiet little town offers good coffee shops with wifi, period buildings and leafy streets full of a certain Japanese brand of cars that people here can't…
Bob in Glacier NP, Montana It took a while, but we are finally back in the U.S. for the remaining posts of our North to South adventure that started in Barrow, Alaska. You can check out the entire series here. We now leave Portland to travel back up northeast towards…
Bob will be my ride for the next three weeks. If you thought I got lost somewhere in southern Alaska, you thought wrong! After last stopping in Ketchikan Alaska, we are now hitting Seattle in Washington state and for the remaining part of this U.S. North to South series I…
Ford F-150 in Wrangell, Alaska Leaving Petersburg to continue on our way south requires a ferry as Petersburg’s road network only reaches 30 miles out of town and does not cross any water along the way. Next we visit Wrangell and Ketchikan before leaving Alaska for good. As well as analysing the car park…
GMC Sierra in Petersburg, Alaska After stopping in Juneau, we now take the Alaska Marine Highway — the ferry in simple terms — on a little over five hour sail to reach the next town in our journey: Petersburg, definitely the most picturesque fishing station I got to visit in Alaska. Nicknamed…
Chevrolet Colorado in Juneau, Alaska After Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, we fly south-east to Alaska’s capital city, Juneau. Juneau is continental America’s only state capital that cannot be reached by car — only boat or plane — as its road network does not connect it to any other towns. It is bound…
Along the Seward Highway, south of Anchorage. After Barrow and Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, at the extreme north of the United States, we now fly south 620 miles (1,007 km) to Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska but not its capital. As much as I would have liked to tackle the mighty Dalton Highway,…