"Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures."
-Don McCullin

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Arizona & Utah National Parks

Christmas Break 2001/02 & 2002/03. United States of America. Life of a university student. A rough one...:-) (it's really true at certain stages, in fact!) hence, I liked to use breaks from academic life to take off and explore the country and beyond. In 2001 and 2002 I spent Christmas time to explore Arizona and Utah. 2001/02 I trained for 3 weeks with the girls from the Arizona State University Cross Country team and went on adventure road trips to the Great Grand Canyon as well as Mad Las Vegas. Great fun! A few of the photos above originate from that trip. However, the majority comes from yet an even better journey, the "Grand Tour 2002": During Christmas Break 2002/03 my university roommate Natalia Kodajova (Slovakian swimmer and fellow Arkansas Ladyback) and another business graduate student went on a ten-day-5,000-kilometer-five-National-Parks road trip trespassing eight states in a jeep packed to the roof with food, camping, and hiking gear... an adventure, a real adventure, a real road trip, the Grand Tour 2002! The trip was a very spontaneous decision. We had exactly 9 days to prepare from the "Let's go!" to the actual take-off. Well, those 9 days were enough for Natalia and me to organize something that resembled the preparation for the end of the world. :-) Our itinerary for the 10-day Grand Tour was the following: Drive: Fayetteville, AR - Tulsa, OK - Oklahoma City, OK - Amarillo, TX - Albuquerque, NM - Flagstaff, AZ -> Grand Canyon, AZ. Grand Canyon Hike: Set-off New Year's Day 2003. First Day: Descension to the Colorado River. First Night: Bright Angel Campsite. Second Day: Ascension to campsite half-way up. Second Night: Campsite, temperatures of -6 degrees Celsius. Third Day: Ascension back to the top (Grand Canyon South Rim). Drive to Colorado River's Horse Shoe Bend (border Arizona/Utah). Drive to Lake Powell & Glen Canyon National Park (border Arizona/Utah). Brye Canyon National Park (Utah): Two Days camping out on snow in -9 degrees Celsius and hike through the sandstone pinnacles. Zion National Park (Utah, close to Nevada): Three days on campsite with campfire. Hiking (the scariest hike I ever went on...). 24-hour drive back from the Utah/Nevada border nack to Arkansas via Monument Valley Indian Reservation and Four Corners (point that borders the states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico).

Photo Galleries: Home Military Training (Bundeswehr Grundausbildung) 2007 Tour Downunder 2007: Geelong Tour Tour Downunder 2007: Singapore Krasna Lipa Tour 2006 World Track Cycling Championships 2006 - Preparation Camp Tour DownUnder 2006 - The Kiwi Southern Alps Legend Tour DownUnder 2006 - The Thai Adventure, Part I Tour DownUnder 2006 - The Thai Adventure, Part II Tour DownUnder 2006 - The Thai Adventure, Part III Tour de France 2005 Life as a Razorback Arizona & Utah National Parks Arkansas - The Natural State Archive

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