On August 12th we drove to Kings Canyon and Sequoia NP where we took a look on the biggest living thing on earth (besides Rainer Calmund) - the Karl-Marx-Tree or how they call it today “General Sherman”.

This is the right moment to mention that this picture was taken by the best “people & giant trees”-photographer [...]

The day we had Yosemite on our schedule was combined with becoming one year older. We stopped for lunch at a real American restaurant and enjoyed it. Because of our laidback start in the day we arrived late at the park and started for a hike to the Vernan Falls. After about 2 miles we [...]

On our last day we wanted to see the Golden Gate without fog so we went there early in the day. After chatting 20 minutes with another photographer it turned out, that she was German too. We even found a German bum there…we are everywhere!

We drove over Richmond Brigde to Oakland and visited Berkeley Campus [...]

The first night was pretty damn short because parking lots are expensive. Our free parking spot was only valid till 8am. So Kief and I, we went to the car…and we found a ticket again. Street cleaning??? This city has never been cleaned before! Those b****rds were waiting for us.
From 8am till 11am I keep [...]

Be careful in what area you book your hotel. But let’s start at the beginning.
On the way to San Francisco we stopped in Palo Alto and visited the Stanford University. The campus was just WOW.
We were much faster then we thought and arrived San Francisco on Wednesday. We did not book in advance so we [...]