Future travels

After coming home from the US, I have to think about new places to go. Some of them are already booked, others are in planning. Until now these are my plans: A short weekend trip to Düsseldorf, Germany to attend the wedding of friends (August 2016) A weekend in Oslo, Norway to watch the qualification match…

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Geocaching extreme

Just home from work on Friday, a friend called and told me to cancel all my plans for the weekend. We are working on a geocaching challenge (www.geocaching.com) where we have to find one cache in every municipality of the county of More and Romsdal. We started in the evening with our first stop in…

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Grand Canyon)

Pick up at the hostel at 7 am. Small bus with 10 people. Starting to Sedona. Our driver Bruce tells us a lot about Arizona, the nature, the landscape. To much to repeat everything. But it is impressive. We will climb up to 2700 meters at the Grand Canyon. Can not wait to see it….

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Volunteer failure with good outcome

Early flights ar not a good thing. But but… Bus transfer to the terminal. Some discussions t the checkin counter becuse my confirmation states clearly, that I do not have to pay for my first checked in bag. The woman wanted me to pay $25. I the end I won and the supervisor said she…

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Travel day LAX – SFO

Travel day. fternoon flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Starting the day with packing, and my “hand-luggage-only” trip is over. The clothes fit into my bag and new backpack – ish. I have o get a cheap travel bag in Phoenix. Otherwise I have a problem, because ore clothes are comming soon. After a…

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Baywatch

What to do on a sunny day? Skipping breakfast and going down to Santa Monic Pier – just had to take the geocache there. Before opening hours it is quiet. Only few people there. Nice waves at the beach. Nice and warm. With help of the app YELP! I found a good bicycle rental close…

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Run Forrest, run (few photos a.t.m.)

First full day in LA. Booked an 10 am tour through the heart of Hollywood. First I tried the complementary breakfast at the Hostel – and left without food. Horrible. Apples packed in plastic that tasted old, rolls (in plastic) that where so dry you could not swallow them… last time to try that. 🙂…

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Officer, I need some help!

Day two of my roadtrip. Short night while my body still fights the time zone. Check out at 7 and on the road again towards Santa Monica. The first part of the tour is quiet boring. A lot of farms, industry and not close to the coast which is the main attraction. I kill some…

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Oh beautiful

Bloody time zone. All messed up. Waking at 4 am like it was noon at home.  Nothing to do but writing in my blog and watching som TV. Starting the official day at 7:30 with a sunrise at SFO and some geocaching close by. Checking out – from a room that was close to a…

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Lost in a mall…

The traveling day has arrived. Up at 3 am getting a smll breakfast at the hotel. Bus to the terminal with a very talkative busdrive (too early for that) an directly to the gate, thanks to my check-in yesterday. No cue dropping the bag. Hand luggage only is sress free. Lufthansa is great 2ish hours…

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