Wild West

After a great time in Frisco and met up with some cool friends at our hostel I was on the road again to Salt Lake City. A 15 hour ride through the Nevada desert. It was like looking at a white screen with some rocks and sand for the whole time. Not much to see, but I had two seats for myself in the Greyhound bus so it helped.

I met up with Mads in Salt Lake City, which is located in a very beautiful scenery. The city is sorrounded by mountains and the weather was nice. We went to Temple Square. which is the place the Mormons settled for 150 years ago and built their church. Utah state has 70 % Mormons. We went inside the Square and had a tour by the sisters. Interesting city, but too clean and tidy for our taste so we left for Denver the day after.

Me and Mads couldnt sit next to eachother in the bus, so we had different experiences in the bus. I found the person sitting next to me pretty interesting to start with talking about the politics in the country, europe and so on. But we he suddenly started talking about that he had met Jesus and Satan in his dreams, that he has made a prophecy and saw himself as a prophet and explained to me how the apocalypse would happen I started to put my iPod in my ears and Neil Young saved me. Anyway, one of the interesting aspects of this trip is to hear all the different views of how the US is holding itself up - many different views.
Mads sat next to a sick person, who apparently shit his pants.

Denver was much cooler and much more laidback. We experienced the city during the day which was very cool. Not too crowded as LA and San Francisco but not as boring as Salt Lake City. The main street was filled with musicians and a lot of nice parks to relax in. Later that night we wanted to see what the city was all about during the night, but as we both only are 19 we didnt have big expectations. But we were only outside for 5 minutes before we found a concerthouse with music inside. We went in and listened to some nice jazz. Not only did we get inside the place we also bought a beer. Great Success.

After a couple of days in Denver we are now out visiting some family 1 hour outside Denver. Here we are having a blast and staying with Lori and Dave and also among animals (3 dogs, 4 cats, 2 horses, chicken, a pet turkey, frogs etc) and experiencing the Rocky Mountains. Today we went out in the Rockies and hiked in snow. Although there is snow it isnt cold at all. Tomorrow we are going camping for 1 or 2 days in Colorado and Utah. By far this is the best State so far. Very beautiful.

On Sunday Lazio is playing against there creepy rivals roma, so I'm not gonna miss that...

FORZA LAZIO!!

The States

After a nice finish in Lima with Mads and our friend Emil, who lives in Peru, we flew to Los Angeles and got ready for chapter two on this trip: Travel across the USA!

Here we met up with Thomas, Sara (I believe the Starbucks staff saw her more than we did) and Fie who were coming for a two week vacation in the LA area. We stayed at Rebecca's house - a girl who went in the same class as Mads in highschool. We are still very happy that we could stay at her place!

It was a big change from South America of course. Everything was way more expensive and we could suddenly understand what people were talking about again! We were looking forward to having some nice times in LA with our friends. And we did. We chilled around in LA at places like Venice Beach, Whale watching and watching Alice in Wonderland in the El Capitan.

We then decided to use some time in Las Vegas and Grand Canyon and check it out. All though we where too young to gamble we still agreed that the city was very special with all its lights, casinos and just plain Vegas-style. We then took a day-trip to the Grand Canyon, where we only had 1,5 hours at the park. We still saw the beautiful canyon but didn't get time to walk down the Canyon. Still if this wasnt the first time I was here it is definitely one of the most beautiful places on earth.

After some days here we went back to LA and saw Dennis Hopper get his star at the Hollywood walk of fame. Not only did we get the opportunity to see this legend we also heard a speech from Viggo Mortensen and saw celebrities as David Lynch, Michael Madsen and last but not least Jack Nicholson! A cool experience now we were in Hollywood.

After Hollywood I went out to some of my family in Rancho Cucamonga - an hour outside of LA. I had some great days here with them, and Im grateful for their hospitality. I saw the Getty Museum, Calico Ghost Town and went hiking in the terrain close to their house. We also saw a cool exhibit about some Chinese mummies from the Tarim Basin.

Now I'm in San Francisco and leaving for Salt Lake City tonight. Frisco is definitely one of the coolest cities in the world. I met with Oliver here, as he is traveling to New Zealand and was in the US for a week. We enjoyed the city, where we also went to Alcatraz. Very neat place. We also went to North Beach to see the Beat Museum where I bought some Beat books (the book 'On the Road' by Jack Kerouac is one of the reasons I'm looking so much forward to this trip cross the US). Today we went to Six Flags and had a blast in the most insane roller coasters I've ever witnessed!

Im meeting up with Mads in Salt Lake City (he is a little infront of me) and we will together travel to Colorado and experience the Rocky Mountains.

As it is such a long time ago I've updated this blog I might've forgot some things... Maybe I should update more frequently!

FORZA LAZIO!