VivaLaVida!

A journey to meet the planet and its inhabitants...

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Sandstone du Colorado…

  J’ai décidé de faire quelques détours sur la route de l’Est, en commençant par la découverte de quelques arches naturelles. J’ai traversé le “Colorado National Monument” qui n’a rien d’exceptionnel à mes yeux puis emprunter une piste assez rocailleuse sur une vingtaine de kilomètres.     1. Colorado NationalRead More…

VLV is back in action!

  It is on September the 7th in the morning I found my “home on wheels” back for the coming weeks. Significantly cleaner than when I let her since Fullservicestorage that housed VivaLaVida for more than one year has cleaned her!     1. Dashing!       Having installedRead More…

VivaLaVida is hitting the road again!

  Here I am in Salt Lake City after 26 hours of travel.                 I’m gonna find VivaLaVida back in two hours, more than a year after leaving her in a storage. So excited!   Next to come soon about this reunion… 😉Read More…

Happy New Year 2016!

  To all of you who regularly followed VivaLaVida’s journey, it’s time to give you some news…   Back to Switzerland in early June, the life surprised me with a beautiful encounter that changed many things in my life and my future. Thus VivaLaVida’s journey has stopped and will notRead More…

Way to salt Lake City and…

  After waiting on a workshop that told me they could do the work on VLV and which finally didn’t, I had little choice but to join a big city to find a workshop that can do the job “on measure “on VLV.   Anyway, before leaving Moab, I wentRead More…

Hikes in Utah…

  During Memorial Day Weekend, I held waiting for mechanical work on VivaLaVida discovering some surrounding canyons.     1. Going up Mill Creek canyon in a rainy day…       2. … I discover this pretty small waterfall.       3. Higher in the canyon, is aRead More…

The journey resumes…

Thank you for your latest messages triggered by the long rest of the blog. Vivalavida received important works, including the modification of the entire oil system to try to improve cooling. The oïl to water exchanger has been removed and replaced by a large oil cooler controlled by a thermostat.Read More…

Back in North Carolina

After almost a year and a half, VivaLaVida found back the place where he had left.     1. Last stretch of winter roads in Smoky Mountains.       2. Wake up in the snowy forest.       Before returning to Switzerland for a few days, I spentRead More…

The crossing to the east continues…

Still in New Mexico, I crossed the El Malpais area – “the bad country” – a volcanic site that spread a large lava flow approx. 3,000 years ago…   1. A lava tunnel revealed by the partial collapse of its vault. Its access was closed to protect bats that overwinterRead More…