Category Archives: Travel

Traveler’s nightmare / Becomes hilarious anecdote / Later on.

Mobile Hermitage:

“Hello! I am Felicity, a photographer / artist / general all purpose disillusioned existentialist socialist middle aged lady and parent of children who are now adults. You have come across the blog of my travels. In April 2017 I quit my job at a used bookstore and decided to spend a year on sabbatical, traveling!”

Right now, Felicity is in Santa Fe, NM.

Virtueller Wochenendausflug

SWR Expedition in die Heimat: Die Loreley, der Fels am Strom.

Bevor wir in die Pfalz gezogen sind, haben André und ich über sechs Jahre oberhalb des Mittelrheintals gewohnt und sind in der Zeit den größten Teil des Rheinsteigs gewandert. Die Köngisetappe, auf der die Moderatorin hier unterwegs ist, sind wir gleich mehrmals gelaufen, gern auch mit Besuch aus Nah und Fern.

Zuletzt war ich diesen Sommer im Mittelrheintal wandern. Auf der Loreley war allerdings gerade eine riesige Baustelle, weil das Areal völlig umgestaltet wird. Schade, es ist nicht mehr so beschaulich wie früher… aber Busladungen an Touristen verlangen nach Infrastruktur.

Dennoch: Das Weltkulturerbe Oberes Mittelrheintal ist immer (wieder) eine Reise wert!

Arizona senior program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association said maintenance costs should fall to Congress, not visitors.

CBS News: Grand Canyon, other popular national parks may double fees. (AP)

“The National Park Service is considering a steep increase in entrance fees at 17 of its most popular parks, mostly in the U.S. West, to address a backlog of maintenance and infrastructure projects.

Visitors to the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Zion and other national parks would be charged $70 per vehicle, up from the fee of $30 for a weekly pass. At others, the hike is nearly triple, from $25 to $70.

A 30-day public comment period opened Tuesday. The Park Service says it expects to raise $70 million a year with the proposal at a time when national parks repeatedly have been breaking visitation records and putting a strain on park resources. Nearly 6 million people visited the Grand Canyon last year.

“We need to have a vision to look at the future of our parks and take action in order to ensure that our grandkids’ grandkids will have the same if not better experience than we have today,” Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said in a statement. “Shoring up our parks’ aging infrastructure will do that.””

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