Welcome back in Canada!

Okanagan Lake in the winter

The party crew in the bus

Okangan Lake with the first snow

Colorado river

On the route: Highway #97

Hey ho,

yeah! At the next day we drove from Leavenworth back to home sweet home Canada. The Highway followed the world famous Colorada River.
I was surprised from the landscape because the vegetation zone had changed. Now you could not see the typical canada landscape at the street anymore. Now it was more dry and everything looked like in a western movie. The prairie strated there. Hills without trees and only covered with grass. Ofcause here and there you could discouver some forests but it was not the same.
At the border of Canada we checked in by a friendly border agent. We spent a night in Okanagan Falls.
At the next day we continued travelling. We followed highway 97. At the end of the day we arrived Kelowna.

Greetz

Karsten

Wilkommen in Leavenworth!

Welcome at home

Bavarian style pub

"Der Sportsmann"

Chrismas in Leavenworth

Like the Alps

European Style

German beer culture

Leavenworth

Hey,

As we finished our stay in Seattle we drove to the Rockys. The highway led us in a nice valley with a beatyful landscape and waterfalls. After the sunset we wanted to cross a mountain ridge. Julex and Benni had fear that we can't pass the ridge without chains. In a big trouble action we bought some chains for the camper. We didn't need the chains to cross the ridge but whatever!
Finaly we arrived Leathenworth at the evening. This village is just unbelievable. Why??? Because everything here is written in german!!! Everything looks like a village in the Alps and has a european style. All houses are decorated with colourful light lines. We walked through the center of the village where was a nice chrismas market (this is very unusually in other american citys). In this village we spent only one night.
I liked the village. Ofcourse it was very touristic. But how cares it was a village with his own style. And it was so funny to see waht the americans think about Germany.

Greetings from the USA

Karsten

Supplement Vancouver Metalica

Oh man I forgot,

During our time in Vancouver we went to the Gerneral Motor Place. There was a concert of the world famous band Metalica. We tried to buy tickets from some dealers but the price was still to high for us.
Around the arena were a lot of fans who tried to get in without tickets. We walked around the arena and I found an open door. Unbelievable. This door was the acess for us to join this concert. Julex and me went inside and the others had fear. Together we went through the hole backstage rooms. We passed thousands of securitys but nobody asked us to show tickets. Finaly we arrived the floor. Around us were tousands of fans and the band. Just amazing!!!
But unfortunetly after 30 secounds a security asked us to shown our tickets. We told him that we thrown the tickets away but he didn't believe us. Finaly we kicked out from securitys.

Doesn' t matter. This 30 secounds, only this moment was just amazing.

Greetz

Usa flashes Seattle

The awesome skyline of Seattle

We are in Seattle yeah!

The skyline at night

The old city destrict

Citylife people everywhere

That's me!

The Space Needle

The skyline with the Mountain Mt. Baker

Think about it!

Space Needle at night

Yeah Usa!!!

The english bay with the coast mountain

The skyline of Vancouver

hey,

oh man about a week is gone after the last posting. The time runs so fast!
After we finished our roadtrip on the island we spent some nights in Vancouver. There we tried to get our last paycheck. Ben and Julex was succesful. My Check is still somewhere on travelling to me. I hope recieve them soon. But wahtever the situation of my bank account is ok.
After a short discussion we decided to drive to Seattle. Oh man USA we are comming!!! Yeah. After some hours drive we arrived Seattle at the same day.
Seattle is a nice city with an atractive skyline. The Space Needle Tower is the main attraction of the city. With the elevator we drove to the top too.
Before X-Mas you have a nice flair in the downtown. Everywhere you can listen to the typical american chrismas songs in the streets. All the warehouses are nice decorated. In some of them you can see santa claus with kids who make pictures with him. Exept this you have an old destrict of the town with som old buildings in a british style. One night we spent on hill at a poiny of view. The view of the skyline was just amazing. I think the pics speak in the best way for me...

After 2 days in the city we decided to rode on.

Our next aim is Kelowna back in Canada.

Greetings from Seattle

Karsten

Travelling on Vancouver Island

Surfshop

wild west coast

rainforest

wild and rough west coast

Tofino harbour

Surfer at the long beach

Our surfer boys

sunset on the wild pacific trail Ucuelet

Alberni valley

hey,

Oh man ich habs jetzt aufgeben das Tag fuer Tag zuversuchen zu aktualisieren. Bin jetzt schon wieder total im Verzug mit den Blog, deswegen versuche ich euch langsam mal wieder up to date zu bringen.

Let's go!

After the first day we drove at the next day to Port Alberni. There we spent only one night. Then we continue travelling.
With the best weather we drove through the Alberni Valley. That's a very beautiful valley with big lakes, huge Mountains, a nice river with salmons inside and a lot of trees. There we saw an eagle and many samlons around the river. The climate here is very wet because of that there developed a continental rainforest in a very long period.
The rainforest here is just amazing there are huge trees more than 1000 years old. More than 100 animals live with tree in one eviroment. You can see salmons and a lot of other animals in the rivers.
The coast of the island is very tough. Big waves smashed against the rocks. It's a landscape where you can't find words for.

In the small villages like Tofino and Ucuelet you can meet a lot of surfers at the beaches. The most famous one is th long beach. And woh this beach is really long. It's the dream of every surfer to get the perfect wave. Benny and Julex tried surfing too. But it's not so easy and very exhausting. The landscape here in Tofino looks like in New Zealand. Everywhere in the village you can find many native art gallerys, surf shops and hotels. Tofino is a great place. There we spent about 4 days.

After this days we drove back to Nanaimo on the same way, because of it's the only way you can drive. In Nanaimo we walked through the city and then we finished travelling on thee island and took the ferry back to Vancouver on the mainland.

Greetz

Karsten

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