80 Days in America

After a couple of relaxed days, today was a nice exciting day again. In the morning Steve helped me with finding a nice rental car. He did a good job, because less than two hours later I was the proud owner of a nice minivan for the next couple of weeks. It’s a nice, very luxe car with a lot of space in it. Normally you have to pay a lot extra when you’re under 25 years old, but Steve did all the talking and it turned out that they don’t gonna charge me for being not 25 yet, so that safes a lot of money. Still it’s quite expensive here Read the rest of this entry »

Of course you can’t have 80 super-exciting days in a row and so today was a little less interesting day. In the morning Steve and I brought Dawn to work and checked out some new trucks. In the afternoon Steve needed to see a doctor, because his neck turned out to hurt more than expected. He’s ok, but his neck just hurts a lot. While he was away I used the time to do some webdesign work again at home. Thinking about work and things like that made me suddenly realize how lucky I am that I can do this journey. Read the rest of this entry »

Today I started planning my road trip for the next couple of months. Dawn showed me a nice tool for that: mapquest.com. You can drag your route on the map and it tells you how far it is and how much time it will take to get you there. As it looks right now and if I can make a good deal for a rental car I’ll make a road trip in the coming four till six weeks, quite exciting. Read the rest of this entry »

Today was again one of the best days of my journey so far. We went to San Francisco. Before we left from home, Steve and Dawn told me to bring a sweatshirt with me. I didn’t use my sweatshirt so much yet, so I was quite surprises. When we arrived I was very happy that we brought sweatshirts with us, because it was a lot colder at the coast. We arrived San Francisco via the Bay Bridge which is the second longest bridge from the world, huge! Halfway the bridge the skyline of San Franciso appeared. Read the rest of this entry »

This morning Dawn and I went to her local church. After a couple of sundays visiting old American churches, it was really nice to go to a modern living church. It was a huge building with a parking spot almost as big as a soccer field and like you expect when you see that, there were a lot of people in the church. There was a nice band and some good speakers. On the first floor there was a small cafe where we enjoyed some drinks and blueberry muffins (I think they’re typical American) after the service. Read the rest of this entry »

Liked planned yesterday Steve and Dawn where throwing a party today. In the morning we went to the supermarkt (I still can get lost in there, they are so huge) and did shoppings for the party. In the afternoon Steve turned out to be a real Cinderella and cleaned up the house completely till it was absolutely perfect. Read the rest of this entry »

Let me first say that I’m completely alright, so there is no need for worries 🙂
Having that said, today worked out totally different as expected. In the morning I spend some time at the computer, skyped with my good friend Rick who told me about the recent earthquake and coming hurricane this weekend at the east coast. Read the rest of this entry »

After a good sleep and a nice breakfast we prepared ourself for what turned out to be one of the best days of my journey. We made some sandwiches, packed our bags and went in the car. Direction: Yosemite National Park.

The ride of about two hours to the park was already very beautiful. Almost the whole ride I was watching outside while saying “aah” and “ooh”. The nature here is so beautiful! Read the rest of this entry »

Around 8.30 this morning I arrived in LA. The weather was absolutely perfect. Not to hot, not to cold and fresh air. The first thing I wanted to do was to go to the beach. Again I made a mistake by underestimating the distances. All excited I took the metro to Long Beach, but instead of a short ride that turned out to be a metro ride of an hour. The most ironic thing was that Long Beach is one of the few beaches without waves. So that was a little disappointment. Fortunately I had something to look forward too. Read the rest of this entry »

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The first time I woke up in the morning it was still dark and I had a huge pain in the back of laying in a wrong position. So I changed my position and tried to fall asleep again. Although the seats are really nice during the day, sleeping in this train is a nightmare. During the day the pain in my back went away again fortunately. When I woke up for the second time the sun was rising and I was surprised by a beautiful wide landscape, we were in Texas. Read the rest of this entry »