Donnerstag, 6. September 2012

Last Stop San Francisco !

Last stop (being together): San Francisco



Smallest room of the whole trip! Isn't Quirin looking really happy about his special TV spot  he got from me?!
Our hood - trying to deal with the loss of our car after returning it having been our best mate for the last 7 days

Steep hills
Golden Gate Park - huge and so green in the middle of the city




"Scenic sight backpack match"


"Scenic sight jacket match'

Visiting Mrs. Doubtfire

Crookedest Street


All there is left to say.



Dienstag, 4. September 2012

We ♥ Salinas!!!!

We Salinas!!!!


bubblegum alley in SLO




The sun is still with us - Sunbeam Motel SLO
Sea Lions along Highway No. 1


YES, we are actually travelling together!!!!
There is always fog at the beginning of the day and the closer you get to the shore the foggier it gets. Sometimes there is only a difference of 100 m between blue sky and sun and white soggy ugliness
Look who's in charge of the keys!!!!
Americans are crazy about lights, they are everywhere, on the highway, the freeway, even next to the ocean!














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Bixby Bridge
Welcome to Salinas!! 
Because of Labour Day everything was fully booked, so we had the awesome idea of staying in Salinas, a little town further inland away from the coast, where rooms were (surprisingly) not booked and not so high-priced. We thought we were smarty-pants...

Theresa: Do you think they might shoot us here?!
Quirin's answer

Find the mistake.
Trying not to touch anything except our sleeping bags. It was freezing cold but the sheets had recognisable stains and were clearly not fresh so we rather didn't use them. During the night cars kept pulling up and driving away, doors slamming, people screaming. Makes you dream of better times.
Just gives you this nice cosy feeling of being in the right place..
17-mile scenic drive with 10 miles through the woods and 7 miles along the foggy coast line with scenic spots every 50 meters named 'birds on rocks', 'picknick area next to birds on rocks' 'seals on rocks with birds on rocks' 'rocks with no birds on rocks'...
Feeling sorry for the 'lonely cypress'
Trying to become a good tourist taking pictures when you are told to because of another 'scenic spot'
There you go: they NEED fog, so let's all be happy for the forests that they got some while we were there



Welcome to Santa Cruz - surfer city
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Our home for the next two days

Samstag, 1. September 2012

Still Highway No. 1

A man ain't a man without his car
Travelodge Palm Springs: Temperaturunterschied zwischen innen und aussen: 25 Grad!!!
As long as the sea is to your left you know you are right (Theresa's easy direction guide)


Motel No. 2: Sunset Inn (keeping the standard in Santa Barbara)
Santa Barbara


Some good idea for the next time we're short of money...


Motel No. 3: THE PRICE IS RIGHT (yeah, ein Trrrrrraum!!!!)
Was im Caesar's Palace der Spiegel ueber dem Bett, ist im Sunset Beam der Spiegel hinter dem Bett!!!
All the way above San Luis Obispo

New home for the next 7 months
Farmer's Market at Avila Beach at sunset


Hearst Castle

Es geht nichts ueber einen guten Weinkeller - Mr. Hearst war sich dessen auch waehrend des Alkoholverbots in den 20ern bewusst