Oregon is really beautiful and has many different landscapes. I'm in love with the rivers, which dig their way through the mountains and the forrest, sometimes purling happy, and then again quietly buzzing to themselfes. The mossy trees, who bend towards the rivers and brooks like they carry a heavy load, dipping theyr branches just a bit into the water. The rich smell of the forrest and the sweet lonesomeness, which is just interrupted by the tweeting of the birds. The wildflowers wich try to grasp every sunbeam which breakes through the leafy canopy. And when the wind is slowly moving the leaves, it sounds like the trees would talk to each other, whispering to each other storys from far away lands. It is hard to grasp all this beauty, and it takes time to take it all in and to be filled with it.
I arrived yesterday in New Port, were we will stay untill tomorrow morning. Outside is it raniy, and a cold breeze imprison's the sun tourists in their motelrooms. To be honest, i was also exited to spend this day of rest at the beach and in the ocean, looking for some adventures, but now i'm just drinking coffe, read and daydream, which suites me just fine. Tomorrow we will start to drive south, to Redwood, Nationalpark. As i'm a tree lover, i'm exited to see the biggest/tallest trees of the world. Afterwards we will hit again the road southwards, and will hopefully arrive by Saturday in San Francisco . Maybe we will make some breaks between to go swimming or to take in the summer ocean scent.
Yellow stone was really great, we saw lots of different animals, a bear, sea eagles, bisons and an elk. I got some pretty nice shots. The country side has much to offer, and is truly paradisiac. You can see those geysers, hot springs, many waterfalls, kind of stone desert, deep forrests or a forrest of dead trees, and of cause the yellow stone lake. For more pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/elisabeth.schnabel/YellowstoneAfterwards we drove to Grand Teton Nationalpark, which is just next to Yellowstone in the south. We hiked around a lake called "jenny lake" (which sounds somewhat german to me), but i have to admid that i gave up halfterm and went back by a shuttle boat across the lake to the parking lot. I love hiking, but i never said i would be good at it :) after that we drove to Ashton, were we stayed for the night ( the old lady at the reception desk of the inn was very rude and unfriendly, and i was a bit shocked, i thought elderly people would always be polite...another of my childhoodbelives is proved wrong by reality :P )we drove the whole of monday from Idaho to Bend in Oregon, over a 1000 miles which took us 12 hours. After such a long drive my parents were really stressed, which made the trip not so pleasent...we were also a bit affected by the weather, the temperature was over 40 degrees sometimes! the next day we reached the coast, and with that New Port.
