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!