To show and explain the beauty oft he start to strangers, larry and his friends brought their telescopes to the campground and built them up for the interested visitors at. Totally unselfish and free. … Well that’s amerca! Thank you.
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biosphere 2 / tucson
The billionaire edward bass wanted to have an answer to the question whether it would be possible to create a self-sufficient ecosystem and for the answer he paid about 200 million us $. In the media it was regarded as a failure, but the technically complex plant provided a super important answer: we should pay more attention to our biosphere 1!There were many unpredictable problems and thus provided answers to never asked questions.
You find more information on the wiwkipedia site
salton sea
Once the breeze from the salton sea wafted over to us, it smelled a bit strange. And since we are on expedition tour we were investigating and discovered this:
joshua tree national park
We had visited the joshua tree national park and i wondered where this bilical name came from. Wikipedia has an answer:
„The name Joshua tree was given by a group of Mormon settlers who crossed the Mojave Desert in the mid-19th century. The tree’s unique shape reminded them of a Biblical story in which Joshua reaches his hands up to the sky in prayer.“
„Yucca brevifolia is a plant species belonging to the genus Yucca. It is tree-like in habit, which is reflected in its common names: Joshua tree, yucca palm, tree yucca, and palm tree yucca.[2][3][4][5]
This monocotyledonous tree is native to southwestern North America in the states of California, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada, where it is confined mostly to the Mojave Desert between 400 and 1,800 m (1,300 and 5,900 ft) elevation. It thrives in the open grasslands of Queen Valley and Lost Horse Valley in Joshua Tree National Park“
lake pleasant / 2
at first glance it looks like relaxing, in reality it´s organizing and preparing my first co_works exhibition in america (of which i’ll soon report more) and what at first glance looks like a waterway is in reality the increase of the water level (due to havy rainfalls) of lake pleasant reservoir near phoenix .
antelope canyon
the atelope canyon near Page / Arizona is world famous for its “sun beams”. only guided tours and photo tours are available and they are usually fully booked, so the tip: book in advance (we’ll do that only super reluctant for our travels), you can see the sun beams only from march until october, then the sun is to low, even in arizona. Then the light rays can no longer reach the bottom of the canyon.
The guide knows where to throw dust into the air and immediately the cameras start to rattle. in the meanwhile the tourists without a photo tour have to wait. Well, a real nature experience is different. Sadly we couldn´t visit the lower canyon, it starts to rain emerging rain quickly can transform such slot canyon into a death trap.
