USA

General The Sonoran Desert is a hot desert and ecoregion of North America that covers part of the Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California and Baja California Sur as well as parts of Arizona and California in the United States. It is set apart from the neighbouring deserts by tw …

General White Sands National Park lies in southern New Mexico and is completely surrounded by the White Sands Missile Range. It covers the southern 41 per cent of a field of white sand dunes made of gypsum crystals inside the Tularosa Basin, and that dunefield is the largest of i …

General Mesa Verde National Park lies in Montezuma County in south western Colorado, near the Four Corners region where Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico meet. It is the only World Heritage Site in Colorado and the largest archaeological preserve in the United States, holdin …

General Arches National Park lies in eastern Utah, next to the Colorado River and north of the small city of Moab. It contains more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including Delicate Arch, which together make up the highest density of natural arches in the world, as well as …

General Canyonlands National Park lies in south eastern Utah near the town of Moab, and it protects a colourful landscape that the Colorado River, the Green River and their tributaries have eroded into countless canyons, mesas and buttes. The park was created by legislation signe …

General Monument Valley is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterised by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest of them reaching high above the valley floor. The most famous formations stand in north eastern Arizona along the state line with Utah, and the whole area …

General The last album of the journey is the drive home across the plains. Its subjects are a highway running towards a mountain range, open grassland with scattered buildings, a dirt road curving across grassland towards a mountain, a rocky rim overlooking pine forest and a vall …

General The sixth album returns to the arches, and to the ground they stand on. Its subjects are a crack between smooth sandstone walls, a trail of red sand crossing a slab of bare rock, a lizard on sandstone, a white blossom on a prickly pear, a twisted gnarled juniper beside a …

General The fifth album is the deep canyon country of south eastern Utah. Its subjects are sweeping canyon views from the top of the plateau, mesas and buttes of red and orange rock with greenish bands, a deep winding canyon with a river turning through it, a wooded gorge below a …

General The fourth album is devoted to a single valley and to the shapes that stand in it. Its subjects are red rock spires, buttes and pinnacles rising from an open floor, mesas with sheer walls and flat tops, red gravel and paved roads curving towards distant towers, red rock p …

General The third album is the archaeological section of the journey, with detours into the rock country that surrounds it. Its subjects are weathered stone masonry, sweeping views over a valley from a mountain overlook, layered canyon cliffs with an autumn tree in the foreground …

General The second album belongs to the desert and to the mountains that rise out of it. Its subjects are the green terraced fields of a valley among brown hills, ruins in a valley beneath snow capped peaks, a snowy summit above a tree lined valley, a palm tree and cacti beside a …

General The first album of the journey belongs to the canyon country of south eastern Utah, and its subject is the arch. Arches National Park contains more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches, the highest density of any place on earth, and they come in every state of development: …

A scientific conference with two lectures brought me to the USA for the eighth time. In the meantime I had already learned something about the USA and wanted to make a longer round trip. Before the trip I thought about all possible things you can do in the short time of 6-7 days. …