tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9784584644026653942024-02-19T02:59:06.132-08:00Morle Immortilization Tour - Be A Part Of It<b>
USA Southwest</b>
27.7. - 20.9.2010
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Thailand/Laos/Macau/Hongkong/Indonesia</b>
05.07.09 until 24.09.09
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ENJOY!
</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-30411533218923152912010-09-20T12:10:00.000-07:002010-09-20T12:41:30.254-07:00Kiss me Goodbye and write me while I'm gone, Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Germany<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DQFWAIFzoZ4?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DQFWAIFzoZ4?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Everything comes to an End, and mine is coming around soon.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Anyways I cannot come around saying that I had the BEST TIME of my Life</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Have you ever heard of people coming home from vacation and they are even worse off than before, because they dont want go back to what they do? </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Not for me,... Right Now, there is so much energy inside me that is just waiting to kick the following year's work's ass, I am totally refreshed and renewed.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Traveling is how I want to spend my time, </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">there's nothing more worth to do, </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">so much experience, so much FUN, so much time, so much money, you go out to eat everyday, you go out everyday, you can spend the entire day reading if you want (i like reading :) ), you can spend an entire day just chilling at a spectecular point in nature, especially when you are alone you can do whatever you want, </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">and of course all the people you meet and the good friends you get all over the world. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">If I wouldnt have met my good friend Ben in Vegas, I would have had to spend 1 or 2 nights on the street in San Francisco because everything was full, and I could sleep on his couch. Simultaniously we had an awesome time out in San Francisco. Every night we hit up the bars, we went to horseracing, won a shit load of money and enjoyed great food. Thanks, Ben, for the last days in the US.</span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><u>Realizations</u></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Even though Asia, USA, the other European countries, and other german states, </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">have all their specialities and are a must to visit, </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">I seem to get a higher sense of how fortunate I am to grow up and live in Bavaria. It provides us with the best foundation you can probably get: educational, financial, lifestyle, social system, infrastructure...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">If you say, everything is fucked up, in my opinion, you haven't seen the world enough, yet. In comparison to what we have, most places I have visited are a lot worse.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Just take our university education... we pay little bit more than 1000euros a year. In comparison to USA, that's a dream to be achieved over here. Med-school is about 60.000$ a year?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Yet, some students complain, complain, complain about how unfair our system is and that we should go back to free education. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">I agree that free education is a goal to achieve, BUT STOP COMPLAINING ! It is by far not as bad as in other places on earth.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Life is Good.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">and we should work on kick everybody's ass who tries to make it bad.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><u><br />
</u></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><u>Growing</u></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">I read 4 books, and the more I read the more I know, that reading quality literature is one of the main forces which can change your life. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">My favorite was "Awaken the Giant Within" by Anthony Robbins.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">It definitely changed my life in a profound way, my path became more apparent and it gave me a clear cut understanding where I want to lead my life. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Self-Help may be cheesy, but without the knowledge out of books, I would miss a lot in this world. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">That's why I love it so much.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">If you cant imagine that traveling <b>alone</b> is fun and NOT BORING, go try it out for a week and you will see.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">I rather go traveling alone than with company because I would be afraid I would miss out on so many opportunities which come with meeting random strangers. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">In Asia I changed my plans and flew to Macao and Hongkong just because I met my good friend Ariel at a bus-stop in Bangkok because I had no clue where to go and needed help, so I decided to ask him and BOOM! Hongkong/Macao was the best part of the journey!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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</u></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><u>ADVENTURES</u></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">There is no other way to get more adventure than by traveling. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Adventure is putting yourself in a potentially dangerous situation where you are not confident... and see what happens.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Yesterday, last night in SF, I went to one bar with Ben, which was filled with New Orleans Saints Fans (am. football). The same day I bought a San Francisco 49ers jersey.</span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Ben told me that those 2 teams play against each other today. Of course I had to get the jersey out of the car and get it a blessing in an enemy filled bar. Make life an adventure :)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">As soon as I stepped into the bar, the entire attention zoomed into me. I was so scared, my knees started shacking and i got a little bit of doubt if this was a good idea. Especially when the first guys started ripping on the jersey. Everybody joined into some hymn that was supposed to smash me, but i couldnt understand what they were yelling. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">But in the end I ended up with a beer and high fives and "thanks for the free victory, man"(49ers are bad and New Orleans won last year's super bowl) and had a lot of fun ^^</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>In order to get here, to "achieve" this journey, </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>I had to endure a hard time before. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Going on a trip each year is not easy and takes a lot of organization and modesty.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>I had to work 12 hours per week to have the income necessary to pay all the bills and have the money to travel, simultaniously to studying;</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>I don't even know how many hours I spent studying 2 months before my final exam. I had to pass it because otherwise I couldnt have gone traveling; University took most of my time. </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>1 big exam in the end of the whole semester, that's a whole lot in medicine;</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>I stopped going out, I stopped being social, I had to reduce sport, I set up a budget and of course I do not smoke, drink (when out), gamble, or anything else that is basically a waste of money,</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>everything accumulated up to a 18hour work day in the last month before the trip (except the week before where I chilled out)</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>and I wouldnt change it, </b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>because I knew that this trip will pay back 10x the effort I put into it.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>I know that I'll do the same thing again</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>I know that I can work even harder, which is cool to know :)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">i hope you enjoyed reading this blog, i am sorry for the inconvenience that there was a big gap of no article. Next time I will bring a netbook to use the WiFi in restaurants. Like I said, Internet Cafes are a scarcity in the USA.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-43285968960958392972010-09-16T13:18:00.000-07:002010-09-20T10:59:19.732-07:00Yosemite/ Sequoia Nationalpark and other good stuff DO NOT MISS THIS<div style="color: blue; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Hey WAZZZUP?</span> </b></div>back from the dead, back from the mountain of wisdom, back alive.<br />
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one song that sounded really cool in a vegas nightclub: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUsbpmQ9-mc<br />
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Right after my last entry I descended into deep adventure times.<br />
Starting off with... the night before yosemite<br />
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I booked a busride from San Francisco to Yosemite at 4.50am from the ferry harbor.<br />
Because departure date was a Sunday OF COURSE I had to go out on the night before (Saturday) with my good buddy Ben in San Fran.<br />
So my decision: Go out until everything closes down at 2am, then go to bus pickup place at ferry H A R B O R and wait until 4.50am.<br />
*ok just to calm down some minds who actually care about me: harbor here means the Piers where ferries leave, mainly touristy and its right next to Downtown. not as threatening as the real harbor, BUT STILL A DEATH ZONE HAHA! nah kidding...*<br />
Hohohoo, this turned out quite scarry. I found a nice bench with this MAGNICIFENT view over a big bridge, NOT the golden gate one, at night with SF Downtown right next to it. AwEsOmE. too bad i dont have a picture of that night.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the bridge but I was closer and it was night. Camera batteries were empty at that night</td></tr>
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BUT...<br />
my peace was totally interrupted when something or someone started screaming like a lunatic (im pretty sure the guy was lunatic), not to far from my point but i couldnt see him.<br />
Then for about 10minutes the screaming stopped and I didnt care so much anymore, except my heart pounding and not listening to music anymore, because you want to be AWARE on the harbor.<br />
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Then suddenly SCREAM right around the corner. Heart BUM BUM BUM, grab all my stuff and OFF i am. Damn. I escaped to a bench behind plants and with lots of light, which turnedout to be a perfect place where nobody could see me and i could read, yay, thanks cracy screaming homeless guy.<br />
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I actually NEVER saw that guy even though i looked out for him several times behind cover, and even though the screams were close i couldnt see him.<br />
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Then Bustime and off i go to Yosemite,...<br />
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Arriving in Yosemite, sleep deprived, I fortunately had to find out that Yosemite somehow has a great phase this year and campgrounds are 5$ per night and free shuttle buses, plus, I GUESS, lots of mormons there because everybody was so friendly for no apparent reason. I mean, how happy can you be when you drive a shuttle bus around the whole day and at every bus stop you have to recite information about the location, sightseeing and things-to-do, which accumulates to a 1 minute speech. Anyway the enthusiasm of the bus drivers was unbelievable, excited as if they would have their first day. My conclusion was: Mormons<br />
Thanks SouthPark knowledge.<br />
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Also very cool was, that i had no problem whatsoever to get a 4-day-hike wilderness permit. Yay!<br />
for the next day.<br />
So i had to go shopping for food. Intelligent Veit, of course, remembers nothing about his nutrition knowledge, which i consider pretty good, and buys things like 6 tuna cans, 3 cans of pork&beans, can of canned beef (yuk), beef jerky, 18 tortilla breads (which i thought can bake over fire -.-) and maybe 3 ceareal bars + 1 peanutbutter with jelly. and thats pretty much it. Let me tell you, the peanutbutter with jelly SAVED MY LIFE. After the first day i had to find out that my biggest source of carbohydrates (tortilla bread) tastes like soap. So disgusting that i had to cover it in peanutbutterjelly that no taste of it comes through. wuuuah, still feel when i think about it. After the second night i couldnt eat anything of it anymore.<br />
Except for the peanut butter+jelly and 3 cereal bars i was on a low carb diet on a 86km hike for 4 days, STRIKE!<br />
In the end i was desperate for noodle soup. My image of heaven was a nice warm cup of noodle soup.<br />
Sometimes my brain seems to refuse work. I dont know.<br />
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">4-day hike (86km)</span></u><br />
But the HIKE, WOW, awesome nature. the camps, 100% alone in the wild, potential bear danger, undescribable adventure.<br />
In the Yosemite Wilderness are basicly 2 forces at work: gravity and bear <br />
Into the wild, man!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">of course, I am covering the Nevada Falls in my back...</td></tr>
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Let me share what happened at the first camp.<br />
I found this wonderful place near a river where I could put up my tent and make a nice fire, chill and relaxe.<br />
When the night came in i started to feel clumsy because it was my first night alone in total wilderness, 20miles from population, on my own.<br />
In bear country you have to have a bear canister where you put all your food, scented items and trash (even toiletpaper) and when you camp, you have to put it away at least 30m from your campsite. No problem, everything fine up to this point.<br />
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So i chilled and relaxed at the fire, listening to music singing from time to time to keep the bears away.<br />
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"Bear, Bear, Bear,<br />
I'm going for a Bear<br />
I like eating Bears,<br />
Lovely, lovely bears<br />
dudumdu<br />
Bear, Bear, Bear,..."<br />
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Inspired by one of favorite songs<br />
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Then I remembered I also have a chocolate bar somewhere in my pants, i will have to put that in the bear canister because bears like chocolate i figured.<br />
Yap, there it is, in my right sidepocket, together with my wallet. But now it was mousse au chocolat... I realized fire=hot<br />
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I encountered a life threatening problem here...<br />
2 life threating problems...<br />
1. Another source of carbohydrates GONE<br />
2. bears like choclate<br />
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I couldnt take the pants with me into the tent otherwise... you probably can imagine<br />
and i couldnt just put it somewhere outside without protection, because those were my only pants on the 4-day hike. I could only imagine how it will look like after a bear tried to get to the melted choclate inside the sidepocket...<br />
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Hah, in the end the ropes i bought turned out to be useful.<br />
I decided to hang the pants somewhere in the trees.<br />
Challenges: Full darkness, only trees with dead branches, pants have to hang HIGH;<br />
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I spent at least half an hour trying to throw the rope over a dead branch of one tree, at least 25 times. Frustrated,.. and in the end i was decently happy when my pants hang 4m up in the air...<br />
I prayed to god that PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE no bear comes around... 4m for bears that can climb?<br />
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At least i tried...<br />
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Well, i then spent the time reading about bears in my outdoor book, which starts off telling you that statistics are that no bear will come around anyway. and then keeps going for about 2 pages what you might do when a bear comes around and attacks you and that you cant do anything about it anyway when it attacks you and so on and so forth.. Thanks... "Play dead when bear is over you" and shit like that. "It might go away" "Do not run away, because it will see you as game" "Yell at the bear" "Do not yell at the bear when bear acts X,Y,Z"<br />
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Anyways in the end I had to laugh ^^ because they put this ridiculous funny picture of 2 grizzlies in the book. I will get this pic up here i guess.<br />
In the end I slept quite good.<br />
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Nothing happened anyway.<br />
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2nd day I hiked half a day to the Ottoway Lakes, the main destination of the hike. Wonderful nature, i put up my camp next to lake where the grass was like a good lawn. short thick green grass with a nice little creek going through. Picture of Paradise. Spent my rest of the day reading and enjoying.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">never ask how those pictures were produced, art needs no explanation</td></tr>
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Even though I was alone all the time, at the time when i went in the tent, somehow 10 or more hikers passed it at night and in the morning but when i came out of the tent again nobody showed up... I at first thought my mind is playing games with me, but half an hour after continuing my hike I found some worker maintaining the trail. Funnily there were more girls than men working there. The work consisted of moving heavy rocks and positioning them on the trail, to make steps or little walls. The equipment were heavy hammers. Respect.<br />
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But most of the time i was completely alone. No other hikers.except 4th day<br />
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The 3rd day was the hardest part. First a heavy ascent on one of the peaks there, on top there was a very small plateau of maybe 6m and then it fell downhill again like it came up before.<br />
and then hiking 20miles in total, mainly downhill but that was hard,too sometimes. When it gets to steep downhill and you have a heavy backpack pushing on your back it gets very annoying and exhausting.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYdSP-Jc1rZkOY4qs3VLl1WDxU2L-y7UEXEd-UBhpByzHQwtWStMqzRjVx4AXDMhNTrlc5x-lLItsLC2R1m6GRElTdnCQJ2NPJe5cimID_SCOk3zO-boBE4W1nLv4NPUsDS5waP_65d2U/s1600/DSCF1860.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYdSP-Jc1rZkOY4qs3VLl1WDxU2L-y7UEXEd-UBhpByzHQwtWStMqzRjVx4AXDMhNTrlc5x-lLItsLC2R1m6GRElTdnCQJ2NPJe5cimID_SCOk3zO-boBE4W1nLv4NPUsDS5waP_65d2U/s400/DSCF1860.JPG" width="400" /></a>Actually the most dangerous part was when my brain couldnt calculate my steps fast enough anymore. I moved downhill and i misstepped several times. Probably low blood sugar on the 3rd day. If something would have happened there, like breaking my ankle, that would have been bad. So i tried to take it slow.<br />
Nature was as always breath-taking, and unfortunately pictures can never show it as good as in reality.<br />
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In the end of the 3rd I actually came back into civilization again. I stayed at a free backpackers campground and they also had a shop there, where i of course bought noodle soup. Finally i enjoyed good energy again.<br />
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4th day was accomponied by several hikers again, (i made a roundtrip) the trail led me back to the yosemite valley where i started off.<br />
When I came back... I could have eaten a whole bear, and if i would have known that there is a all-you-can-eat buffet... I didnt know, but i got a Burrito with rice and beans side and a beer and icecream. There was one woman sitting at my table and she tried to talk to me but she realized fast that i was not talkable to (does that word exist?^^)<br />
I was in gather-energy-to-rebuild-mode.<br />
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of the 4day hike<br />
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I booked myself into Camp4 for 7 nights (maximum) and decided to chill out after my big adventure. I had to read a book anyway.<br />
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</tbody></table>Camp4 is known as the camp were lots of rock climbers stay. A lot of big boulders lie around and yosemite itself consists of huge granite rocks. Did I say taht Yosemite is one of the best spots in the world for rock climbers? <br />
I got interested and watched a movie about Ron Kurke in the Park's cinema. Ron is a famous climber from Yosemite who actually attended the movie and made a small speech before and after it. Was quite interesting. Those guys hang on walls, were you can see no grip whatsoever as a newbie. The most popular climb is the El Capitan, i dont even know how high that one is, but i do know that the first climbers took 49 days to climb it, Ron Kauke needed 15hours, and the fastest climber needed 2,5hours. <br />
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I spent the days in Camp4 reading, eating, and doing 3 additional day hikes.<br />
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<u>Let me share my 2nd Hike:</u><br />
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I went to eat at the Taqueria (mexican food) and got the Nacho Supreme. Thats a big plate of Nachos with beef, olives, avocado dip, and stuff stuff stuff. In the end it was so disgusting and i was filled up to the maximum and if i would have eaten all i would have..... wuah i cant see nachos anymore.<br />
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I got a baaaad feeling from that. Overeated.... I hate the feeling of overeating. Even though I am one of the greatest eater of all times.<br />
My motivation for a little sport went up!<br />
I said, well, lets go/run up to Nevada Falls. Thats the first very steep part of my 4-day hike.<br />
I had a small backpack with me with 1 Liter of Water and 2 beers.<br />
The time when i started out was 4.30pm.<br />
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When I started out i felt topfit, probably because i didnt have the heavy backpack on my back anymore, light like a feather.<br />
When i feel topfit I usually try to push my limits.<br />
DECISION: Half-Dome Challenge (Half dome is the most popular Hike in Yosemite. It's the mountain which is on the one end of the Yosemite Valley.The main attraction about it is the last part where you have to ascend a very very steep wall to the top by pulling yourself up on cables)<br />
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Yepp, i walked/ran up that 8 mile trail pretty fast and 2,5h(arrival on top at 7pm) I was standing on the shoulder of Half-Dome in front of the cables. Here I was facing a problem. at around 8pm it gets dark and I didnt want to descend in full darkness.<br />
I decided against going to the top with the cables because it would take too much time. I drank 1 beer to manifest the success of my challenge and started to go down again. 10minutes after descending the shoulder an Australian guy came up the way and i asked him in disbelief if hes going to go up all the way to half-dome<br />
and he was positive. ...well i figured when we are 2 guys i can climb to the top as well.<br />
So we did!<br />
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When you let go, you fall to death, taking everybody below you with you.<br />
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On top we were of course all alone. My camera's batteries were empty in the right moment and the view with sunset was magnificent. Davis, the australian guy promised me to send me the pictures he did on facebook. This guy actually started that day on a 350km hike! And he estimated 7 days for it. Thats about 50km a day! I hope he came out alive.<br />
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Davis then suddenly saw a climber coming up a wall on half dome. Shouldnt be too special,BUT Davis recognized the guy as the brother of a friend of him.<br />
"Hey, are you the brother of x? Wow, its me Davis. Cool to see you here!"<br />
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2 Australian friends meet on top of half dome to a very unreasonable time, and they didnt know that they are in yosemite at the same time.<br />
It's a small world...<br />
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Well, it began to get dark and still had to walk 8-9miles into the valley...<br />
Davis then told me that he intended to sleep on the shoulder of half dome... -.-<br />
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Alright, started off my way down alone and soon enough i was in darkness, only starlight giving me an idea of the trail.<br />
I had to walk through a forest for about 3 miles and it just didnt want to end... i didnt have a flashlight, only the one of my mobile phone and i wanted to save battery. I only used it when i didnt find the path.<br />
I thought it shouldnt be a big deal because Bear Grylls said in the SAS they only moved at nighttime and with the time your eyes adapt that you see quite good.<br />
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Walking through the forest was like going on the milky way. everything was black and only a light white stripe (like the milky way) was hardly noticeable on the ground.<br />
Every sound of the forest, like branches moved from the wind, become a threatening sound in hypersensitive adapted ears. Cracking branches from some animal become an adrenaline shot, could be a bear.<br />
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This forest just didnt want to end.... In the end I was constantly using my flashlight from the mobile phone. that was more comfortable. I decided I will sleep someway down the path when I finally get out of that forest.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Nevada Falls, I was there at night right were the water falls into the Valley</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">,left is half dome</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">where the water falls down into the Valley, looks way better in reality, I was there at night</td></tr>
</tbody></table>I came by the Nevada Falls, a waterfall which goes down into the valley. At night, alone, it so much cooler, to experience those places. <br />
By the time I did, I decided to keep walking as long as the phonebatteries last. Turned out that the batteries are really good. They lasted all the way down to the Valley and my tent.<br />
Anyways running around in wilderness at night is pretty scarry. I mean, the trail is very obvious and in good shape, but with all the wildlife around and thoughts of possible murderers who might wander around on yosemite trails at night (haha i really had those thoughts) make you 100% conciously aware of everything around you.<br />
I even considered not singing my bear song because it could attract the murderers walking around at night on yosemite trails -.-<br />
but i sang my songs with the risk of getting murdered at night on a yosemite trail o_O<br />
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When I finally came back into the Valley and I had to walk through the whole valley village to other side where my campground was, it looked like the perfect horror scenario. Wooden dark houses and creeks with wooden bridges and meadows with lonely trees standing around plus deep forest roads. My mind really likes horror scenarios. <br />
I just couldnt decide what kind of danger could be here. Werwolves or zombies or murderers or other kind of non-defined monsters. I didnt see any but at the time I was certain that there has to be at least one species around.<br />
I underlined the atmosphere by the song "Die Nacht" by Die Aerzte. Put it on repeat. Was really cool. good atmosphere. You have to take advagntage of these rare moments. I really like walking through the night, the adrenaline pushs you get all the time.feeling the heart pump BUMBUMBUM and you ask yourself why you can suddenly hear it pumping?<br />
On the trail, still up in the mountain, there was a sudden loud sound of steps and when i turned around in shock, there was a deer standing few meters away, as shocked as me.<br />
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Was a pretty cool adventure, one of the best i ever had. yay<br />
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I did two more dayhikes, but in daylight, up to very beautiful viewpoints where you have this great view over the valley. I used the time up there reading a great book, sitting on a rock, where 1-2m away the cliff drops off into the valley. Such amazing places to be. hehe no pictures of those views because there was no possibility to reload my camera batteries. sorry. go google it. (Upper Yosemite Falls, and Glacier Point)<br />
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I even survived a bear attack!<br />
I was sitting alone at a campfire in Camp4 at midnight, listening to music. I heard footsteps from my tent, wondering whose coming and when i turned around there was bear coming right at me, 5 meters away, ADRENALINE BUMBUMBUM, jumped up and yelled at the bear "FUCK OFF BEAR, FUCK OFF!"<br />
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the bear had this look in his face "you got lucky this time" and decided to run away, several other people i woke up joining in yelling.<br />
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well ok it was a small bear, maybe 50cm high and 1m long, BUT it walked right towards me! Survived, yeah!<br />
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Try to beat that Bear Gryllz (survival specialist)<br />
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They have Bear Watchers in Yosemite, which i consider one of the coolest jobs in the world. Every night one girl chased bears with a tracking-system and a paintball gun. You could see her running after bears every night (Bears came every night into the camps in search for food) yelling "Bear, Bear, Bear" in order to scare them off that they get afraid of humans again. That is to protect the bears in yosemite.<br />
Id love to do that job.<br />
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Like i said bears come every night into the camps and try to steal food or leftovers and they go for everything that has a scent like soap. They frequently break into cars and it is usually only because people left some trash inside of it. One guy who was camping next to me said a bear broke into his car because of beer cans. he thought that cans dont give of a scent.<br />
they have bearlockers everywhere where you must lock your food and penaltys are max 5000$ fee.<br />
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After Yosemite I didnt really know where to go, so i decided to go to Sequoia NP which is not too far away on the map.<br />
But the way to get there.... In the USA, without a car, you are screwed. Public transportation is expensive and oftentimes with a lot of transfers.<br />
You might think they have a public transportation to their Nationalparks but that is a scarcity over here. Same with internet as you might have noticed when you checked my blog (hopefully frequently)<br />
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On my way to Sequoia NP I had to spend one night in a city nearby because buses run only in the morning to the NP. I normally try to find a 24h restaurant in those cases but there was nothing around, so I had to spend 50$ on the worst motel there is in this whole universe... That was the cheapest offer.<br />
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The motel room was mainly a run-down construction site, the locked doors you could push in with a little bit pressure and the non-smoker room had the scent of a shisha cafe. Of course a bad mote room is not a bad motel room without cockroaches... and i needed my sleeping bag to sleep on the dirty bed.<br />
The good thing, there was a TV with about 60 channels and cool shows like Scrubs running. Sweet.<br />
Haha, there was one channel where there was a outragous debate about Paris Hilton got banned from the Wynn hotel in Vegas recently because of cocaine or something with drugs.<br />
Did I say that I am pretty sure that I saw Paris Hilton in a Wynn Nightclub when I was in Vegas? Poor Paris, the Wynn nightclubs are the best.<br />
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Next day when I arrived in the Sequoia NP I met a german dude named Fabian. We spent the following week together, he introduced me to hitchhiking, which was basically the only way to get around.<br />
We also spent playing mini games for beer.<br />
You know the game "I am packing my suitcase, and in my suitcase goes ..."? where you have to remember the items in the right order. I am awesome in this game and got 3 beers out of it. Once we pushed it to 50 items and then it became kind of boring because i shared my technique with him and then he was awesome too.<br />
He mostly won all the other mini games ... our favorite was guessing the time. we got quite good at it after a time.<br />
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Sequoia NP has the largest trees in the world, the famous Sequoias ^^ large means the most volume. They are not as high as the redwoods, but they are very very broad in diameter.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">they say 36feet diameter but thats not 12m... maybe 7m</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robin(old woman),Andre,Anna,my stuff</td></tr>
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After the Sequoia NP he proposed to go to Eureka, a city at the Northern CA coast. He has a friend there who he wanted to visit and i came with him because thats exactly where the famous high Redwood trees are.<br />
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We split off in Eureka and I went little bit more north to Arcata, probably the hippiest town there is in the USA. Only hippies and drug addicts and homeless people everywhere, but thats all the same anyway right? *<:-D kiddin'<br />
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The cheapest campground was 25$ per night for putting up a tent.... thats more than i pay now in the San Francisco Hostel in Downtown! As wholes.<br />
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Now I am in San Francisco again and found internet again and i spent 3h 16mins on writing this and now i will go and get my ipod to upload the pictures! will take me another 45mins probably.<br />
I hope this huge post makes up for the 4 weeks of nothing.<br />
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see you soon, because this journey is coming to an end in 4 days!<br />
I will be in Munich for Oktoberfest, I hope I am not alone!<br />
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PICTURES NOW!<br />
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wow, finally some time in the internet again.<br />
I was searching for about 4 hours for a internet cafe in San Francisco today, until i found one.<br />
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So what happened in the last days?<br />
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After the Grand Canyon me and Mike continued to Phoenix/Arizona. *NOW I FOUND OUT THAT I HAVE NO PHOTOS OF PHOENIX, the city, but is not that interesting anyway*<br />
Phoenix is the 5th biggest city in the USA...and lies directly in the desert. Temperatures of more than 40 degrees right now. Pools are about 30 degrees. No refreshment there.<br />
Why do people decide to live in the desert? weird,.. i couldnt go out for more than 2 minutes in the sun. Its like gunfire from the sun on your head. I didnt see any reason why so many people moved there.<br />
Downtown Phoenix looks actaully pretty nice, but when you are past the last modern skyscraper-whatsoever-downtown-building, you are suddenly in a crappy slum.<br />
People there like wasting water for golf courses in the desert and shit like that. They have a lot of sprayers in houses and restaurants which cool the air. Most of the water just goes in the air. WASTE.<br />
Well, Phoenix is not the best place to go. Scottsdale is a wealthy place there and it was fun to go out, but overall im glad to be out of the desert. <br />
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We first wanted to go to San Diego after Phoenix, but then decided to go back to Vegas :D Awesome city.<br />
on the way there we came past Hoover Dam. But we didnt stop. only from car pics.<br />
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Now i have lots of pictures.<br />
I also found out that they have a Hofbraeuhaus there, and of course went there. Ate a Schweinebraten and a Mass Bier, for 34$! Well, it was the best meal, yet :)<br />
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San Francisco is a weird place. Freezing cold! Then very hot as soon as clouds vanish. Ive been to the Golden Gate bridge yesterday. Strong wind and lots of fog. Couldnt see the top of the towers. Surreal feeling... like London.(Didnt have my camera around for Golden Gate Bridge but i have 5 days in the end of the journey in San Fran.)<br />
The day i arrived here, i had to carry all my stuff around and then the night came in and fog, cold wind, homeless people scared the shit out of me. <br />
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When everything works out, i go to Yosemite National Park tomorrow. Travelguide says: "If you havent been there, yet, you will have the experience of your life. In comparrison to Yosemite, Switzerland looks like a trial project from God.<br />
So i am pretty exicted. Also because i can finally go outdoors and camp and hike and that sort of things. Most of the equipment i carry around here is for outdoor purposes ^^ I am not really prepared for staying in cities, and especially NOT for going out all the time.<br />
I actually went out 16 nights in a row, except for one night. Somehow needed that after the last months of saving money and studying and working, get up early... Especially Vegas was awesome. Best nightlife there. Funny that most of the times i go with clothes i wore during the day, sweated and unshowered, since shortly i didnt even have a deodorant. But doesnt matter.<br />
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Sorry that i didnt post pictures. I wont be able to upload them any time soon, i guess. Unless they have Internet cafes in Yosemite. I might get an ipod touch with wifi. I guess the internet cafes all close down because of the FreeWifi places.<br />
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I have been out in Vegas 7 nights and i spent amazing 30$ on entrance fee on saturday. i actually paid that twice but the first time i cheated 2 guys in, who gave me 10$ each in return. In total probably about 100$ for club entrance... <br />
But had one of the best times of my life in vegas. Despite one meal/day because of budget.<br />
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I am now more than 2 weeks in the USA and it feels so good to be over here. Probably because I finally escaped the struggles back home. I passed my 2 exams and now everything is perfect. Having an awesome time over here.<br />
Met lots of people.<br />
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We head out from Las Vegas to Flagstaff, the closest city to Grand Canyon. We stayed there for 3 nights.<br />
Until Flagstaff we've been 4 guys. Me, Mike, Chris (german) and Eric (Swedish).<br />
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Cracy chris decided that there is no way around the adventure of descending the Grand Canyon to the Colorado River offtrail, stay there over night with no tent, cover or whatsoever, and little supply. <br />
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Well, i am adventorous but not stupid. Chris and Eric thus decided to split off and do it on their own thing.<br />
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Mike is not into hiking, so I decided to split off as well for the day and meet up with mike in the evening. |<br />
I did the Bright Angel Trail, which is probably the basic trail down. <br />
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I had little bit more than 5 hours to descend and ascend. Thats not much for 15 miles to go down and up..<br />
I hiked to a viewpoint directly over the colorado river.<br />
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Well i warned them. Today they called me and Mike and said they did it and are alright. Good for them.<br />
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I wanted to challenge myself and tried to come up to the start in under 2,15h. I went pretty fast but underestimated the last 1.5 miles, so i needed 2,30h to ascend from Viewpoint over the Colorado River to the South Rim startpoint.<br />
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There are no Security bars, so if you go there at night and dont watch out, you might fall to death, but you probably have plenty of falling time to think: "wow, this is the grand canyon, unbelievable"<br />
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Unfortunately i did not have enough time to hike more and go to the river.<br />
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Next day we headed out to Sedona (Pics above), where we only drove through. <br />
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Right now I am sitting in a nice Hotel in Scottsdale/Phoenix.<br />
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More things to be explored.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-32473483071873588462010-08-02T10:28:00.000-07:002010-08-02T10:28:31.719-07:00LAS VEGASI arrived in LV yesterday midnight.<br />
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im paying 5$ minimum fee for 15minutes internet -.- unbelievable expensive.<br />
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anyways, LAS VEGAS is such a SICK place. Go there...<br />
i cant post pictures up from this bullshit casino internet thing. but its awweseeseome-o.<br />
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I do not have one little clue how i managed to get inside lavu nightclub yesterday. probably one of the best in the world. <br />
the "door was soo tight" that only few girls were alowed in. <br />
What i did o_O... i went up to two guys, asking them about the entrance fee for the club.<br />
They were probably pretty stoned. they said they dont know about a fee and seemed irritated, so i thought whatever and was about to leave. but then he said if it is only me and i said yes. he then said, "ok. come on" and channeled me right through the bouncers into the club. Damn, i still dont know how^^ cool guy :D<br />
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sorry for this shitty blog, but its really expensive over here.<br />
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cheersUnknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-29451395569229348822010-07-31T23:41:00.000-07:002010-07-31T23:41:26.265-07:00X GAMES LA!Wooow. <br />
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By coincidence found about about the X Games taking place RIGHT NOW in LA.<br />
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Went straight to it and had an AWESOME day. watched skateboard street finals, Big air rail finals BMX and Skateboard, Rally cars races...<br />
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WOOOW! PAM! <br />
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no time left sorry -.- <br />
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i probably will get some pics up from the x games!<br />
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cheersUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-43990262849163836122010-07-30T20:45:00.000-07:002010-08-12T18:42:14.951-07:00update3 mins left in internet.\<br />
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LA is now one of my emotional connections to freezing, i guess ^^ <br />
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SOOO cold when you walk around in shorts and tshirt, lots of wind at seaside and cold in the morning and evening.<br />
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i liked so far:<br />
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venice beach, malibu beach, some hill-lookout over LA by night, ..<br />
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its little bit cold and windy. <br />
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I dont have a lot of time. internet is quite expensive and i need to get going again.<br />
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my hostel is right in the middle of a ghetto... i dont know about the safety, its supposed to be.<br />
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some guy i met has a rented car and today we drove around the city. the area is so huge that you always need lots of time from A to B and without a navigation system it would be nearly impossible. <br />
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LA is a disappointing city. the famous parts like santa monica beach or the walk of fame are not as expected.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the movie "heat" (my favorite) you can see that view, too. Couldn't embed it, but click this link, watch the clip, then get the movie! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpVfRwtfrzI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpVfRwtfrzI</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">CANT WAIT TO SEE IT for real, because... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and of course, no photo or video will ever come any close to the live experience. I hope ;) </span></span><br />
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</span></div><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue; font-size: large;">who got tired of her exhausting, nerv-wrecking life. She thought it would be a great idea to settle down in heaven, and crap on god's shower carpet now. Well, however, I will make you immortal, because... why not? ^^</span><br />
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Feeling very lazy, no more motivation for another ricefield or temple.<br />I prefer digging deep into some memory-improving exercises. Can already memorize an entire shuffled deck of playing cards in perfect order in under 10minutes by seeing every card once.<br /><br /><br />Back to Germany soon!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Thanks for reading my blog! Appreciated.<br /><br />to be continued...<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7GAozL0wrgDeqck6Ot5BhXjKBoLUkoLDimHxOb2fozzyvznvnb46yyVrS9cZgTzeGa5ooKaLhrFv5iAz1c5Q4dB3DBscEbpZonAFB5hyKDO4VbQQS4dpZhnaEI3F7u1S9rPWe2cP2sTk/s1600-h/lazymansdogwalkqd2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7GAozL0wrgDeqck6Ot5BhXjKBoLUkoLDimHxOb2fozzyvznvnb46yyVrS9cZgTzeGa5ooKaLhrFv5iAz1c5Q4dB3DBscEbpZonAFB5hyKDO4VbQQS4dpZhnaEI3F7u1S9rPWe2cP2sTk/s320/lazymansdogwalkqd2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380508619586589330" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-20397392597842446972009-09-08T05:56:00.000-07:002009-09-20T10:44:54.487-07:00KutaNow I am in Kuta, the magnet for all sunny boys and those who like to get owned by big waves.<br /><br />Accomodation is quite expensive here, so I rented myself into a hotel WITH SWIMMING POOL11!11!!!! First time in this journey. Is one of the cheapest Hotels i could get.<br /><br />Next thing i did was, getting a massage! First time ever. I always ran away of them, in thailand they are EVERYWHERE, but this time i thought, it's maybe a thing you should do, when you are around here. Anyway its 10x less the price then in Germany. 2,50euros for half an hour.<br /><br />But anyway, i describe it like this:<br /><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="'{">first it was a fight, then a war, and finally i didnt want her to stop.</h3><br />Now, after it, im full of oil, even in my hair, and i cant take a shower because my towels are in laundry until tomorrow. I could go into the pool, but then i have to wait for an hour or longer to get dry. and it is dark, no sun to dry.<br />So ill just go around with a odor de mint ;)<br /><br /><br />I was at the beach and there are some pig big waves ^^ went right into them, i love swimming with 'em.<br />Tomorrow i rent a board for the day for not more than 40000 Rp. about 3 euros. The rest of the time i have here, ill learn how to surf no matter what (if i like it)<br />no school. dont need that shit ^^ maybe...<br /><br />no pictures so far.<br /><br />cheers.<br /><br />veitUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-61404670828432373522009-09-06T20:22:00.001-07:002009-09-06T20:22:28.679-07:00i like this video<object width="853" height="505"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jWUrj22pRD0&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jWUrj22pRD0&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="853" height="505"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-49569729433770156842009-09-04T03:43:00.000-07:002009-09-04T03:52:28.045-07:00news<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxASjxRk1w">1. On Wednesday, a great earthquake with a strength of 7.0 hit west Java. News said you could feel it on Bali, I didnt.<br /><br />2. I am going to study medicine in Germany!</a><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/azziWE8BFUU&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/azziWE8BFUU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-68365928932770492562009-09-02T21:31:00.000-07:002009-09-02T22:03:56.040-07:00bromo and kawah jiaen<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRSj27dzywgM43NXNmznx5CVfQUfnrFPAm7YezzZegioJHfr8fvvdxeEk0UyOmY8vHV5iabWm0yHFCrU-Bje_JCaD5D5GtMl0J4vWQCWzg_cbihkgPX0Bq5ee6taPuFr-eruEfRYf33Lg/s1600-h/P1010088.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377094440985742658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 381px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 333px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRSj27dzywgM43NXNmznx5CVfQUfnrFPAm7YezzZegioJHfr8fvvdxeEk0UyOmY8vHV5iabWm0yHFCrU-Bje_JCaD5D5GtMl0J4vWQCWzg_cbihkgPX0Bq5ee6taPuFr-eruEfRYf33Lg/s320/P1010088.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><p> </p><p>Last 3 days i spent driving and wandering around in east Java, visiting 2 volcanoes, watching the sunrise from volcanoe bromo's viewpoint and climbing the volcanoe Kawah Jiaen, into its crater with a big source of soda and a big lake full of soda.</p><p>In Jiaen, there are hundreds of worker walking up and down the volcanoe, carrying a heavy load of soda on their shoulder. Everone of them goes up the mountain, climbs down to the crater, gets a load of soda, climbs back up to the top and goes down the mountain again. all in all 3,5km and the soda weighs about 60 to 80kg. Real man's work! Each one of them has the most impressive shouldermuscles i've ever seen.</p><p>Unfortunately i lost nearly all my pictures of the 3 days, because the computer crashed while transferring them.</p><p> </p><p>Now i am on Bali, with 3 belgium girls and a french guy. Met them on the 3-day-trip to the volcanoes. Bali is cheap and beautiful so far. Tomorrow we go on a carride across the island, and are going to visit some popular places.</p><p> </p><p>cheers,</p><p>veit</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-19710217659128774352009-08-29T04:08:00.001-07:002009-08-29T06:15:17.574-07:00temple borobodur and pleasent dinnerok, these were the last temples for my journey. I guess i saw enough now :)<br /><br />but those last 2 were really good anyway and i had to see them. really big.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdaN7mzrWO59DvYLgSPYtARAo1P5LocWVrR5EUUyvaEVxMSgZR_W08lefbsVikb8AzS3OuhST4o9559SyPoIF3fEPm795xl-_5bUp_rSpOKjiILXOk3lFnXsNVY3qmmrX5zHWU8iJuwc/s1600-h/P1010016.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdaN7mzrWO59DvYLgSPYtARAo1P5LocWVrR5EUUyvaEVxMSgZR_W08lefbsVikb8AzS3OuhST4o9559SyPoIF3fEPm795xl-_5bUp_rSpOKjiILXOk3lFnXsNVY3qmmrX5zHWU8iJuwc/s320/P1010016.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375343289930133202" border="0" /></a><br />but 10 dollar entrance fee for each one of them is waaaayyy too much for me, thus i only visited Borobodur, the famous one. Maybe its for restauration, then i gave my fair share, i guess.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCRJgpEJX-BofB3sNUrXlkqI_kEQ54KzF1BEPp-YujtvOqddtfm1CxTs3V9NXlRO2dJnLmH6GK0PLOOo53OCjhUkinm7GQPOCUpOeNazWvTUZJBM7JmPBadK6lC1hn7HPQrDWvWofi21g/s1600-h/P1010028.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCRJgpEJX-BofB3sNUrXlkqI_kEQ54KzF1BEPp-YujtvOqddtfm1CxTs3V9NXlRO2dJnLmH6GK0PLOOo53OCjhUkinm7GQPOCUpOeNazWvTUZJBM7JmPBadK6lC1hn7HPQrDWvWofi21g/s320/P1010028.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375343308530570818" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIyAJXZqr0UQXaG4yCDXCG1S3_-BMw3MlqN2gDCg3iIdHbWFQHcAkSVOYVNlVFKqEeNvkZGqMXSR83FK8-W06VE8hs5ourS3FrorxmA0yqIF1FmRnSd1Gv2hwIkIRbAhgwZqjzxxHD9jw/s1600-h/P1010013.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIyAJXZqr0UQXaG4yCDXCG1S3_-BMw3MlqN2gDCg3iIdHbWFQHcAkSVOYVNlVFKqEeNvkZGqMXSR83FK8-W06VE8hs5ourS3FrorxmA0yqIF1FmRnSd1Gv2hwIkIRbAhgwZqjzxxHD9jw/s320/P1010013.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375343301543390674" border="0" /></a>As you see, Borobodur is very impressive! Wonderful view over Java and volcanoes.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJVz6oYu7VRFbhyyflWYVd2iwFidXcAmFJdCPuHT76ALvN45hGPTGWqiQ5-Ii6roavpyCiu86ywC6Tw4QhSOXaqTxf9goMMpqD3ZTXf52DPcQTDXuGodhyilRAZaKJ8cwBv9BmbZDjcnA/s1600-h/P1010054.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJVz6oYu7VRFbhyyflWYVd2iwFidXcAmFJdCPuHT76ALvN45hGPTGWqiQ5-Ii6roavpyCiu86ywC6Tw4QhSOXaqTxf9goMMpqD3ZTXf52DPcQTDXuGodhyilRAZaKJ8cwBv9BmbZDjcnA/s320/P1010054.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375343317845270962" border="0" /></a><br />The guide from the travel agency took me and my group to a second temple, but i didnt pay the entrance fee, just watched from outside and then waited for my group at a deerpark. very nice and cute. ^^<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCIGxnL85otH7gjCk6ngfSV0yIBH93lsbHwz9hYuBNCNyVWbDehXF_0nRmW-7TgRlXTXwzVdW0CKxrXq5mBnHTKdM-r66Hu7mBzlnP4byFjrvtn4gCCGgMXR28d9RbMASq2fkapSWhA2Q/s1600-h/P1010098.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCIGxnL85otH7gjCk6ngfSV0yIBH93lsbHwz9hYuBNCNyVWbDehXF_0nRmW-7TgRlXTXwzVdW0CKxrXq5mBnHTKdM-r66Hu7mBzlnP4byFjrvtn4gCCGgMXR28d9RbMASq2fkapSWhA2Q/s320/P1010098.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375343327084534066" border="0" /></a><br /><br />In the evening, I went out for dinner and this really nice indonesian family invited me over at their table. I had a really pleasant talk and food with them. They spoke english very well, and the one guy, Herry, told me about his stays to Europe, also Dresden/Germany. He lives in Sydney at the moment. Enjoyed it!<br /><br />I again found some new food which looked strange, but that i really like now. Plain egg, which is brown and Jackfruit, fried i guess. really good.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />bye<br /><br />my 'good morning' BigMac had again a massive load of salad in it. I dont know where that comes from.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-71390221253495601162009-08-28T04:13:00.000-07:002009-08-29T05:56:13.521-07:00BigMac's, toothkiller and durianToday i ate at a McDonald's, a bigmac menu, really good. but the abuse of salad is unbelieveable... there was more salad in the burger than in (where is a lot of salad in it???maybe in a saladburger)... but you get the idea.<br /><br />then i went to a supermarket, where there was one huge box full of durian fruits. the fruit, that is known for its unstandable smell.<br />it really has a strong thick smell, which filled the whole supermarket (a relatively big one), but for me, its not unpleasant. its not even annoying. So I went to a little shop in order to try it, and it was really really good :)<br />it's said that you either hate or love it, and that most people cant go near it.<br />I liked the taste. its a very rich taste like onions, melted onions. the flesh of the fruit is very creamy.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAyJ1JdOOO7K_fXAqUrn-GzRIJvraifkbVyGQsij1p9S-GJzQ0LS-9tC9Taek64Yig_VleGzP8ebN-LyZeCX6Zny8DKBRnD1JzWutZ0JlUCjW5fWkT2ASDj4I299neIjXH_TunwPr97Hw/s1600-h/durian.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 235px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAyJ1JdOOO7K_fXAqUrn-GzRIJvraifkbVyGQsij1p9S-GJzQ0LS-9tC9Taek64Yig_VleGzP8ebN-LyZeCX6Zny8DKBRnD1JzWutZ0JlUCjW5fWkT2ASDj4I299neIjXH_TunwPr97Hw/s320/durian.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374973996986142114" border="0" /></a><br />After this one, i bought some sweet stuff. i dont know what it actually consists of, but its basically a colored, meatball-big, ball with coconut and A LOT OF sugar. its as sweet, that it hurts. i cant eat 2 of them; after one, i think im fat. But it was as good, that I HAD to eat all of them; the white ones tasted like durian. need to get those again.<br /><br />tomorrow i will visit Borobodur. a huge temple from forgotten times. shall be pretty good!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDbGKetAsrTzsCXfdc5-NTFQztLzLKqMozFIJkRO5GYDhvw7nZX9TjGNKGcUcQ682pyW_VEfB5rLY4Lo4GiNxruk8y9vGEZsgiOtfeOmQKDHonW6-tuVOZag9cCYYmLcgVSfAKra-upR8/s1600-h/Indo06-Pura-Borobodur1.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDbGKetAsrTzsCXfdc5-NTFQztLzLKqMozFIJkRO5GYDhvw7nZX9TjGNKGcUcQ682pyW_VEfB5rLY4Lo4GiNxruk8y9vGEZsgiOtfeOmQKDHonW6-tuVOZag9cCYYmLcgVSfAKra-upR8/s320/Indo06-Pura-Borobodur1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374977757359342706" border="0" /></a>bye.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-37997207926754367802009-08-27T03:48:00.000-07:002009-08-27T03:58:59.882-07:00Photoupdate<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZw4AUGimSdFNVz8LEh1Eq8IaOkupmuwMxHxxVblxP3ye8v5PHP_1SFrZZzBtH0PsJfrIA9mhJk4piPcXkgyfiiuWv9NdmBQOoGEDFuOkLM5E9i8z0c5NBGB3dAP3y-hpI5MPVJq2EU5c/s1600-h/P1010075.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipX-_zd-gc0JXOKsU2bQX0_FWo8hZtuW_IQTb90oCZYkhYFceMoHlrFpYhPzI8_7_6vnD7LflKVEZJL9V3e4J-dDNTP2V8gH-VX7PE5byuMfaNqijjIdKg7twQZSxXoIjiiQwQmvIs1Us/s320/P1010027.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374596139169134626" border="0" /></a>Photos made on the train!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-52357767877905058942009-08-26T20:19:00.000-07:002009-08-29T06:00:34.396-07:00Ramadhan and meHi<br /><br />Now i am in Yogjakarta, i nice town in Central Java.<br /><br />Right now, its Ramadhan.NO FOOD, until 6pm. I hope i wont starve ^^!<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfarjPLxsCABM3G7fHeYUk1LvXVUUIMeOj3UW3be4MmaP3w0vYK1lsXzymWEF7xQKHf74t48unLmhP4tOfLscUrptNM9EAc8oEsV2SOkfIYyEJljmZDfxdSGoooXecDk1Z3uF8AevWbbc/s1600-h/28636132.angry.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 228px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfarjPLxsCABM3G7fHeYUk1LvXVUUIMeOj3UW3be4MmaP3w0vYK1lsXzymWEF7xQKHf74t48unLmhP4tOfLscUrptNM9EAc8oEsV2SOkfIYyEJljmZDfxdSGoooXecDk1Z3uF8AevWbbc/s320/28636132.angry.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374482239407270578" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">YOU GOTTA BE KITTEN ME!</span></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />As a good traveler, I maybe should have checked that before, but i didnt ^^ so it hit me with full surprise!<br /><br />i arrived on java on 24.08., and will go back on 22.09.<br />Ramadhan is from 22.08., until 22.09.<br /><br /><br /><br />but as bruce lee says: "be like water my friend", as well as: "BAM!",<br />i decided to go to bali soon, the island right east of java. It's said that ramadhan is the hardest time to travel, also because of the totally overfilled transportsystems (a lot of the people return to their families in that time) Bali has more buddhist population and is more touristic, so it's easier to travel there. Even though i prefer to stay away from touristic areas.<br /><br />Jakarta and Bandung, the 2 cities i've been to, where not really visit-worthy.<br />Yogjakarta, on the other side, is really nice, very beautiful and a lot of sightseeing. Here i will stay a little bit, then im going to climb 2 volcanoes, and off i go to bali, where i'll stay for the rest of my journey.<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">I AM HUNGRY!!!</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmiSS8sXfmflh6SBoSd6NyXI7WvcooYn-nUVCORhEl98Xk0r8G5epkWDyi-cv6_erNsIJX0WZmB0XdEhnpdZgJr02hMcvX2ywMPf6LEkASIXpG9ObkbzXfFBptIRtC4L4Oe7LLAqbzKDU/s1600-h/chinchiila-persian-cat-with-empty-bowl.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmiSS8sXfmflh6SBoSd6NyXI7WvcooYn-nUVCORhEl98Xk0r8G5epkWDyi-cv6_erNsIJX0WZmB0XdEhnpdZgJr02hMcvX2ywMPf6LEkASIXpG9ObkbzXfFBptIRtC4L4Oe7LLAqbzKDU/s320/chinchiila-persian-cat-with-empty-bowl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374482934630646754" border="0" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The only food i find in the daytime, is vegetarian spring rolls,... really good, but...<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >AS EVERYONE KNOWS</span> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkuSImAWrrprt5ZNgXsbiKupQI2IAIUEeyLcNOYw0H2GHRm0KafQKE7wt8rWXogl29l8QcartkBiTFpzj9abRmGwWCJxgEh5k8ZHPUj06LF68JRpYHJ5c5UnhBxcr9yNdESX2p0kQYDWI/s1600-h/tiger-eating-his-meat.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkuSImAWrrprt5ZNgXsbiKupQI2IAIUEeyLcNOYw0H2GHRm0KafQKE7wt8rWXogl29l8QcartkBiTFpzj9abRmGwWCJxgEh5k8ZHPUj06LF68JRpYHJ5c5UnhBxcr9yNdESX2p0kQYDWI/s320/tiger-eating-his-meat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374483977660394450" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">A TIGER EATS A FLEISCH<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;">They have McDonalds here, so i know where to go if it's too urgent. Even though i prefer streetfood. Who never know what you get, but mostly very good.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><br /><br /><br />Cheers!!!<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-74126033352148277782009-08-24T01:00:00.000-07:002009-08-29T06:02:18.305-07:00Indonesia, jakartaOk<br />i arrived in Indonesia today. pleasent flight with no turbulences, thus little bit boring.<br /><br />jakarta is pretty dirty and where i stay, it makes the impression of a village, a village with 8.5 million inhabitants.<br />i guess ill leave tomorrow for Bandung.<br /><br />got some springrolls, pretty cheap, 7 cents per piece, but unfortunately, spring rolls are pretty much the only thing you can buy here.<br /><br /><br />people told me anyway, to leave jakarta as soon as possible. theres nothing worthy to visit.<br /><br />I went around with a Taxi anyway, and what i saw was not bad at all. The center seemed very modern.<br /><br />im pretty tired, had only 3 hours sleep. im going to sleep after this.<br /><br />byeUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-71621303995149212372009-08-20T04:38:00.001-07:002009-08-20T04:38:44.180-07:00UPDATEupdated ko tao with some nice pictures!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-87148897125364854382009-08-20T00:49:00.000-07:002009-08-20T01:06:16.065-07:00("")(o_O)("")@lumphini park, a lizard like this, tried to rip me my fried chicken. had to be careful with the tail, which they like to use as a whip.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhilpv6j-FY1LeZ_WG5nnXuhaT3yT239Od7WiirBVC3euloZMbcefJX6u4ki96C3gR5Ryg16wNB9CjDqz0rDczCeZm1GZM6M4TcL6UU_JAJZv-4fLvBJUC8TtesVU9BMBhh6TlElsI_qnU/s1600-h/jl31sc.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhilpv6j-FY1LeZ_WG5nnXuhaT3yT239Od7WiirBVC3euloZMbcefJX6u4ki96C3gR5Ryg16wNB9CjDqz0rDczCeZm1GZM6M4TcL6UU_JAJZv-4fLvBJUC8TtesVU9BMBhh6TlElsI_qnU/s320/jl31sc.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371953406491507266" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />back to bangkok<br />ooouhhh, nothing interesting here...<br />just chilling out all day reading, eating and eating.<br /><br />my thought processes are like this right now:<br /><br />...hm, have to stay consistent with my workout...<br />...where do i get good food for 20baht...<br />...iam hungry but i dont want same old rice...<br />...maybe some french bakery stuff again, but that is also already "same same but different"...<br />...maybe some chicken? nahh, had already too much of it...<br />...damn, so many food and i dont know what i want...<br />...thats too spicy...<br />...ok, i have still 200baht to go for that day, i.e. about 4-5 meals...<br />...am i supposed to do something right now?...<br />...maybe i go to lumphini park...<br />...lumphini park is too far away...<br />...cant afford the 7 baht for the bus...<br />...maybe i go to the supermarket...<br />...@ the supermarket: damn, what did i want at the supermarket?...<br /><br />and least: ...the internet is cheap, i dont have anything to do, why not write some crap on my blog, that people continue coming back to it, checking for an update, and finally get crap like this...<br /><br />cheers!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyG6daYo-gV1TmoxapsFLindpFmqBn4k2BJAKjpLdqwdh9AjSRePWjLQSKQinmPR3LFhyIduwOJBF_MELgmS-KUs3cmeJgBKeENCr5hRLqal4TubgH9B7f6GI5gpXT6QtJvuiiblC3aY8/s1600-h/01_Fight_Club.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyG6daYo-gV1TmoxapsFLindpFmqBn4k2BJAKjpLdqwdh9AjSRePWjLQSKQinmPR3LFhyIduwOJBF_MELgmS-KUs3cmeJgBKeENCr5hRLqal4TubgH9B7f6GI5gpXT6QtJvuiiblC3aY8/s320/01_Fight_Club.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371953415728395202" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978458464402665394.post-44004795458682642702009-08-15T05:03:00.000-07:002009-08-15T05:04:03.142-07:00updateI UPDATED THE FULLMOON BLOG.<br />Should be interesting!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0