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Hello from Sunny Southern California!! Well the trip from LA to San Diego was kinda crazy. Los Angeles is freakin huge! It took us most of the day to get from the Aglago (silverlake) house, to Long Beach. Not the prettiest of riding, stip malls and urban spawl... but once we got to Orange County, it got a little nicer. We also did not make it to Camp Pendelton Marine Corps base in time to ride through. You can only ride bikes on the base from 9:30am to 3:30 pm and nowhere to camp nearby. Lucky for us Garby and Maureen were waiting for us at Brian, Roth and Ackers house in Oceanside, about 10 miles south of Pendelton. So Garby drove up and got us. And we spent the evening catching up with these kids ... read more


We arrived home today, after a relatively uneventful 12-hour plane ride. Friends are welcome to come and visit us, but please call us first to make sure that we will be home. We are going to be settling in over the next few days, doing loads of laundry, going through mail, shopping for food and getting used to driving around town with 2 kids. The past 18 days have been quite a long journey and we are so glad to be home.... read more


APRIL 22, 2007 I ran La Jolla Half marathon on my 56th birthday. This course runs along Torrey Pines Park past Del Mar and into the village of La Jolla. Many people saw my birthday race shirt (Today is my 56th Birthday. Cool, huh?) and wished me a Happy Birthday which made the celebration even more special. I took a nice long bath at my friend Cathy’s house and was later surprised by the gathering of my buddies waiting to wish me good cheer! Yummy food, great friends, blessings all around. ... read more
Surprise!


;-D Wir machen da mal ein kleines Ratespiel draus. Die Rumpel hat drei kleine Schönheitsfehler (ja es sind nur 3!!!), mal sehen wer sie findet. Vorschläge können gern als Kommentar abgegeben werden ;-) Good luck! ;-)... read more
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It´s been far too long since my last blog entry. But for once we´ve been quite busy... Our first stop in the USA was L.A. We spent a couple of nights in a hostel in Venice. Venice Beach is a fun place with crazy people everywhere. Moreover it isn´t as posh and superficial as many other places in L.A. After the long flight from Sydney to L.A. we suffered from Jetlag. It was quite a funny experience. We woke up in the middle of the night, couldn´t fall asleep and were hungry at weird times. Due to our jetlag and Philipp´s cold we didn´t do much the first couple of days. Once we felt better, we rented bikes and rode them along the Pacific Coast. We saw some dolphins while chilling on Santa Monica Pier ... read more
Santa Monica Pier
Hollywood sign
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We flew back to LA this morning at 8am so another early start but it meant we had a full day in LA. When we landed in LA we attempted to hire a car for the day as our tour guide on the LA city tour had told us we could get 1 for $40. Why did we believe a guy who thinks he's best mates with all the stars?! all the car companies wanted at least $70 - so the bus it had to be. After another trip to Dennys to feast on a giant breakfast we got the bus to Santa Monica beach. 75 cents on the bus so an absolute bagin. The weather was really hot today so perfect weather to sunbathe and chill with the beautiful people on the beach. We ... read more
Santa Monica Beach


Aamulla herätyskellon pärähdettyä Mexico Cityssä, viskattiin rinkat selkään ja lähdettiin respaan tilaamaan taksia lentokentälle. Samalla tuli kysäistyä olisiko metro halvempi matkustaa. Kyllähän se oli, joten kirmattiin lähimmälle metroasemalle. Lentokentän pysäkillä sitten todettiin, että ei se metro tullutkaan ihan kentälle asti, vaan jäätiin vajaaksi kilometrin pari. Samalla päästiin kokemaan aitoa kuplataksi-tunnelmaa, koska meidän piti heiluttaa sellainen päästäksemme ajoissa kentälle. Kentällä check-in meni yllättävän nopeasti, joten ehdittiin muuttaa tulevia lentoja siinä ohessa. Otettiin Dallas meidän reissu-suunnitelmasta pois ja siirrettiin siitä vapautunut aika Kaliforniaan. Ei se JR kuulemma enää hengaile Dallasissa päin, joten mitäs me siellä tehtäis.. Lento Los Angelesiin ei mennyt suoraan, vaan jouduttiin vaihtamaan konetta Dallasissa. Matkalla Dallasista Los Angelesi... read more
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Venice Beach-kävelykatu
Venice Beach

North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » LAX May 7th 2007

Mandag d. 7/5 (dag 22) I dag var det så farvel til "The Big Orange" og goddag til "The Big Apple". Vi skulle først flyve kl. 15:00, så vi havde dejlig god tid, til at pakke. Noget af tiden brugte vi til at få lidt "morgenmad" på vejen. Vi havde ellers gratis "Continental Breakfast" på hotellet, men det var altså ikke særlig spændende. A propos morgenmaden på hotellet: Det var tydeligvis et hotel der var under stærk indflydelse af kinesere, både de andre gæster, og udsmykningen i spiseområdet. Nu er det vist sådan at man i Kina tilkendegiver sin ros til kokken ved at give så meget lyd fra sig under måltidet som muligt. Den første morgen var der også en anden gæst (kineser) som tilsyneladende var godt, men ikke perfekt, opdraget. Han slubrede det bedste ... read more


Bonjour, Le temp file, le jours 2 et le jour 3 sont deja passes. Jour 2 on a apris quelques strategies de chanelling et l'entrepreneurship, et aujourd'hui on en a appris le "momentum trading" et le "buy and hold" ainsi que des facons, legales et ethique de payer moins d'impots :-) Ce soir c'etait l'introduction aux marche etranger. demain la suite ainsi que l'immobilier. 13 heures hier, une pause (60 minutes), 13 heures aujourd'hui une pause (35 minutes!) C'est tres intense et tres interessant! Demain dernier jour du seminaire. J'aurai ENORMEMENT de materiel a comprendre et tester. A+... read more


Søndag d. 6/5 (dag 21) I dag var det Universal Studio dag. Endnu en af de ting vi havde lagt os fast på hjemmefra (og som vi gennemførte!) skulle rende af stablen i dag. Vi tog af sted i højt solskin til det store område, hvor der er samlet nogle rigtig flotte og underholdende shows og ture. Vi havde også her købt billetter online hjemmefra og printet dem ud på forhånd (tak Dorte & Jesper!). Også her havde vi valgt at betale lidt mere ($ 89 mod $ 61), men de penge er nogen af de bedste vi har givet ud på denne tur. Man bliver udrustet med et skilt til at hænge om halsen, og så kan man gå ind af den angivne indgang udenom de, sine steder, ret lange køer. Det er bare den ... read more
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