August 2010
DAYS too late.
Soooo we had arrived in Barstowe. The hotel was puh-retty cool. We had gotten an upgrade because my father had signed up for some thing (no idea what for, I don’t think it had any use at all) so we had a really nice hotel room. Two rooms, two tellies, a desk, and the bathroom was immense as well. It was really big, and on the left was a bath/shower combination, and there was also a jacuzzi....
Plaaaane
A place where I didn’t write my stories, like I had said. Unlike we were informed, we did have the cool tv thingies in the seats, so I didn’t have 10 hours to waste away without anything but what you bring yourself and which doesn’t run out of battery. So instead of reading books and writing stories like originally planned, I watched movies and played games. Real good improvement...
Wooooooooooo. :(
Soooooo… we’re leaving today. :( Our plane leaves at 4:30-ish, so now we’re packing. I’m going to write my stories for the days I’ve missed in the plane and post them up asap as I get home. So yeah. Bye US and A, I’ll miss you!
Grand Canyon
Well, the Grand Canyon. The drive to it wasn’t that exciting I think, seeing as I can’t remember a single thing from it. We didn’t drive straight to the hotel, but we did a couple of viewpoints first. This canyon is indeed pretty huge, like its name suggests. The light wasn’t very good, it was cloudy and the view wasn’t very clear. It was still impressive, but not...
Monument Valley and Antelope Canyon
I’m going to continue where I left off in my last post, leaving for Monument Valley. We crossed the Utah – Arizona border on the way to Monument Valley. Which doesn’t add a whole lot to my story, but it was just a little detail. The way to Monument Valley was fairly good. The roads inside the park definitely were not. I’ve heard that the indians there (it’s a park owned by...
Moab, day three and four. Or four and five.... I'm...
Catchy title, innit?
On day three (or four…. the day before we left, anyhow), we went rafting. Sounds sort of badass, wasn’t the case. We had to get up at an ungodly hour, especially for a vacation, since we had to be at the ‘headquarters’ at 8:15, AM. I’ll skip the half dead morning rituals that morning, and will immediately move on to arriving at said...
Monterey Bay Aquarium
I’m going to start off with something from a while ago which I had forgotten to write something about, somehow, I think. The Monterey Bay Aquarium. We went there on the day after we left San Francisco, I think, some time early at least. It was a pretty great aquarium. We started out at the jellies or jellyfish. When you walked to that section, the first thing you saw was actually a big round...
July 2010
Bryce Canyon and more, Utah.
After Zion, we went to Bryce Canyon. I don’t exactly remember the name of the village, but it was something with Bryce blabla too. We only stayed there for a day. The day we arrived, we did a drive along a couple of viewpoints along the canyon(s?). The canyons are really beautiful, I’ll post some pics later, I can’t really describe it otherwise. The next day, we packed up, and...
Zion National Park/Springdale, Utah
I’m really going wild on the titles, aren’t I? I’m kind of catching up on ages of not writing anything, so I’m not proofreading anything or taking time to come up with witty titles….so forgive me if I made any typos or errors of other sorts (minus the gaps in my vocabulary, haha), and sorry for the boring titles. And sorry for the censoredness of it all, somehow I...
Las Vegas, Nevada.
Las Vegas. The key word of our three (?) days there is hot. The temperatures were really effing high. When you were outside, it felt like you continuously had a hair dryer in your face, the only difference being that the wind was not really that apparent. I’ve never experienced temperatures that high before in my life, apart from perhaps in steam cabin thingies.
We left for Las Vegas on...
License Plate Game!
I don’t know the exact count, but I think I’m on 43 states now. Or 44. :D
Sorry for the lack of posts, I’ll really try to do some stuff tomorrow……time (and distraction, mostly in the form of GDC. (A)) is preventing me from writing my stories.)
Los Angeles and Universal Studios
LA. We arrived, we walked on the Walk of Fame, I did some whining because I wanted to go to the Hard Rock Cafe, we had dinner in Mels Drive In (they had juke boxes. Awesome! :D). I’m still confused on why there isn’t an apostrophe. After that, we did a little more Walk of Fame and went to the Chinese Theater, where the concrete hand- and footprints of a bunch of movie stars are. There...
Sequoia Park
Today, we went to Sequoia Park. The day started out with breakfast in the hotel at the border of the park. Breakfast was nice (they had waffles :happy:), after that we got in the car and drove. The park was beautiful (just like a lot of all the other scenic drives are, haha). Sequoias, as in, the trees, are huuuuuge. Especially in the beginning, when it’s just a bunch of normal trees of...
Dry Ice
I don’t even know what dry ice is exactly, but the word ice definitely sounds appealing. It’s hot as hell here, I don’t know exactly but around 100F at least. Thank god for airco. But still.
We arrived here around a half hour, one hour-ish ago. We’re about at the border of Sequoia (sp?) Park now. Tomorrow we’re going to do this drive and hike something, I don’t...
It is warm here
Unfortunately, we left the nice temperatures of San Francisco, and now we’re in a place where it’s warm. It’s right about in the middle between San Fran and Los Angeles, so I’m already fearing the rest of the vacation.
For the rest, nothing worth mentioning has happened, or maybe it has, but my memory sucks. Yesterday we did a wonderful drive through a state park I think,...
