Camping and Trekking Across the World!

Got to see the 2024 eclipse and it was great! It was my second one so I guess I'm officially an "eclipse chaser"! You can really see Jupiter to the top and Venus to the left of the eclipse!

just watching the spring moon move across the sky

I went to Garden of the Gods in Shawnee National Forest while I was home visiting. It's a gorgeous area and the start of one of the wilderness areas for the national forest. There are a few trails in the area. The main allure is the camel rock area. You can climb all over the tops of the rocks. Be careful because people do fall off each year. You can see the forest from the high cliffs and there are boulders to climb on! Happy trekking! Read more at: https://campingandtrekking.com/garden-of-the-gods-illinois/

I went to Rim Rock National Recreation Trail in Shawnee National Forest Illinois. The hiking is wonderful out there and Shawnee is a great national forest that not many people know about! It's also near Evansville Indiana. This is a great day trip for anyone in the region with lots of hiking and exploring!

We went for a Garmisch walk while we were staying at Edelweiss Lodge. It was a blast!

The sky in Germany!

Just a timelapse of the stars over Garmisch Germany! It was a nice brisk night in January and a bright starry night!

I randomly picked a spot in the Vosges Mountains in France to have a quiet weekend. I decided to look around the map and discovered the source of the Moselle River! I live near this river in Germany and have visited the German Moselle River many times. It's an understated monument to one of Europe's most famous rivers. Here's what it looks like! Happy Trekking! Read more at: https://campingandtrekking.com/the-source-of-the-moselle-river/

I'll have to work on the GoPro settings because auto just isn't cutting it!

I got a timelapse of the French Stars in the Vosges Mountains in eastern France. It was just a getaway weekend so there wasn't much exploring but it was nice to eat, drink, and be merry! Happy Trekking!

I finally made it to Grüner Pütz Spring. The highest part and start of the Eifel Aqueduct in Germany. The Romans collected water from the side of the hill in small stone ditches that collected here and then went off into the aqueduct on their way to Cologne! You can hike the majority of the length of the aqueduct to the edge of Cologne and walk with the Romans! Learn more about this trip here: https://campingandtrekking.com/eifel-germany-aqueduct-adventure/

Klausbrunnen or Klaus Spring is the second spring along the Eifel Aqueduct and was captured right here in the cistern. You can see where the aqueduct enters and where it exits with this basin built right by the route of the underground aqueduct. There's no water in there anymore but all the Roman infrastructure is still there. Very interesting to see! Learn more about this trip here: https://campingandtrekking.com/eifel-germany-aqueduct-adventure/

The aqueduct bridge near Vollem Germany is an exposed area of the Eifel Aqueduct. It's just a small building and an excavated aqueduct. It's a quick stop along the Eifel Aqueduct trail and interesting to see the Roman's design. Learn more about this trip here: https://campingandtrekking.com/eifel-germany-aqueduct-adventure/