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  • Pismo beach

    11 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    Another pretty beach full of surfers. They had a cool pier but unfortunately we couldn't go on top as it was closed for repairs. It didn't mean we couldn't go underneath though :D after that we had the best clam chowder ive ever had and a BLT in a little cafe near the beach. Oh, before the chowder we actually had a cinnamon roll, as they have a shop that sells only cinnamon rolls, but about 8 different types, we got a basic one with a side of cream cheese frosting. MmmmmmOkumaya devam et

  • Santa Barbara County courthouse

    11 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    This courthouse was built in Spanish revival colonial style, which is really popular in all of Santa Barbara: as we could see from the view from the top of the tower, there were similar red tiled buildings all around us. This is an active courthouse that is almost completely empty for the public. It was really cool to walk around, see what court hearings were scheduled for the day, go inside the law library, go inside the big and decorated court room, where weddings are held (and according to the sign, you are allowed to go in, even if one is in progress). Also the halls were decorated with murals of historic events, like argentinian pirates arriving to the city, or the Spanish themselves arriving and meeting with the Indians (very parks and recreation style, except they didn't actually show the brutality as much :D).Okumaya devam et

  • Golf n' stuff

    11 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    As we were driving to LA, we could still not get in contact with Ester néni, who we were supposed to stay with, so as a fun birthday event, and also to kill some time, we pulled over when we saw the sign for minigolf, and some enormous building that promised elaborate golfing fun. In the end it wasn't sooo crazy, but it was still pretty fun. Of course Seamus completely beat me in the game, but I managed to not get too upset about sucking at golf, and even had some cool successful shots. The real fun actually came when we went inside, and played with the arcade machines. It is pretty cool to be an adult, and have the power to waste as much money in it, as you want! Although I think we only got 7 dollars worth of tokens between us, so it wasn't even too crazy spending. A the way it works, is you use tokens to play with all kinds of games, and depending on how you do, you get tickets that the machine spits out. At the end you can buy different little silly prizes with your tickets. We played 3 types of ball throwing games:ski ball (I was the best at this, I managed to get it into the highest 10000 point hole), basketball, and American football. Surprisingly we won most of our tickets with American football out of these. Our most successful game out of all was kungfu panda, where you had to hit 1 out of 6 drums, based on where a dumpling was coming so that the panda could kungfu it away. Seamus had an amazing run on this, after which the machine spent about a minute spitting out 250 tickets. It was amazing, we felt like we won the lottery. I played dance dance revolution for the first time, which I was pretty bad at even at the easy setting, and then Seamus decided to set it extra hard for my second run, on which I scored an impressive 0%,even though I was basically just running in place trying to hit anything by luck. In the end we got to feed all our tickets to a counting machine, which was also really fun to do with the longer tickets, and then we got to choose some silly stuff from the store. We were actually mostly excited about the cheapest items, we got some funny instant tattoos, a sticky spiderman, and a zombie that grows 6 times in size when addax to water.Okumaya devam et

  • Almost staying in LA

    11 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ 🌙 15 °C

    A bit after 5 we gave up on finding Ester néni that night, and found a motel around where we were, which happened to be Ventura. For dinner we went to a nearby taco place. We ordered some tacos and some nachos, both of which were quite good, and they were fun to spice up with this from the free salad bar, which had 6-8 different sauces, and toppings, like extra onions, cilantro, lime, etc. On a big TV they had baseball going on, it was Hugo's favourite the Oakland Athletics playing against the dodgers, completely winning too. Seamus ordered a beer, which came in an enormous and heavy chalice. I ordered a margarita, as I thought it would be nice to add to the Mexican theme, especially as it was the same price as a beer. I was quite surprised when it arrived in the same glass as Seamus's beer... I managed to drink about 2/3 of it and then gave up. We fell asleep watching more funny American TV.Okumaya devam et

  • Driving past LA

    12 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C

    As we actually stopped before La the night before, it took about 2 hours just to drive around it on the North. It really surprises us how quickly it turned dry and desert like, especially after the super green coastline of the last few days, the contrast was incredible. I think I squealed a little bit, when a tumbleweed first rolled across the road of us.Okumaya devam et

  • World's best beef jerky

    12 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C

    We pulled over based on a sign on the side of the road to try the world's best beef jerky (according to them...) as I don't actually remember ever trying it. Inside we found a quirky gift shop full of weird little gadgets, mostly native American related, and of course the jerky. We accidentally bought a buffalo one, but I'm assuming beef is similar :D it was actually really nice salty, peppery and stringy, but tender at the same time!Okumaya devam et

  • Joining route 66

    12 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C

    After about 2.5-3 hours of driving (but having fun as the surroundings were so different) we finally arrived to the first point I actually planned to see today, which is a short bit of route 66 that we could drive, between Victoville and Baker. I think you can see on Seamus that the wind by now was really brutal. Also surprisingly the sun was strong, but it wasn't actually very warm, nothing higher than 18 degrees, even though we were in a desert!Okumaya devam et

  • Elmer's Bottle Tree Ranch

    12 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    This was such an amazingly American weird roadside attraction, but one that we actually really enjoyed stopping at. We don't know why Elmer built his bottle tree Ranch, as he wasn't around, but the gates are open for everyone to come in and see it. It is an enormous field of metal "trees" that he mush have welded himself, where on every branch a colorful bottle was placed. There are all kind of funky metallic things topping certain trees, some of them movable by the wind, also lots of wind chimes (store bought and homemade as well) and bird feeders. Seamus called it the best art he's ever been inside, and I have to agree, it is just really beautiful to be in. The heavy winds make everything tinkle and creak, and the birds are chirping, and you walk around between all the colors, and funny signs, it is relaxing and entertaining at the same time. There were special bird feeders for hummingbirds, and there were multiple of them flying around, in various colors of green and red and pink. We were the only people in the whole place, and mostly left because of the high winds (and because we really needed to use the bathroom)Okumaya devam et

  • Molly Brown's Country cafe

    12 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    We stopped for lunch at a random diner, that turned out to be a very local chain, with 4 restaurants in a 10 mile radius. The waitresses were ridiculously kind and attentive, which is always strange for me here in the US, but this was the most extreme case we have encountered so far. They had a super good value lunch menu, where we both got a big plate of food for 12 dollars. Originally I wanted to have pie as my diner experience, but we couldn't even finish my plate, let alone have dessert. Seamus ordered chicken fried steak, which he wanted to try for a long time (which is a steak fried like a wiener schnitzel, and I had a philly cheese steak.Okumaya devam et

  • Old woman meteorite

    12 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ 🌬 15 °C

    Another silly sounding roadside attraction: the second biggest meteorite in the US. We went in very sceptical and then were proven wrong, it was not just a rock, but almost completely made out of iron, and weighed almost 3000 kg. It had to be lifted out of the desert where it was found by military helicopters. The rest of the museum was mostly for children, but we still learned a thing or two about hummingbirds, and tortoises.Okumaya devam et

  • Calico ghost town

    12 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ 🌬 15 °C

    Calico was a silver mining town that only existed between 1881 and 1896 for fifteen years. The town was left to decay, and it did almost completely disappear, but it was rebuilt (supposedly with historical accuracy) to its original look. Well, it probably didn't have gifts shops, and dog treat shops back then, but otherwise let's say its accurate. We were waved in by the lady sitting in the front booth without paying, I'm not sure if we got lucky, or it is always free. It was really really windy here too, for example in front of the saloon they had some rocking chairs on the porch, and all of them were moving on their own from the wind. We could go and walk around a few hundred meters of the original mines, the little train that also goes around in the mines was not operating unfortunately. It was a bit kitschy, and I didn't know before going that it will all just be a reproduction, and nothing original, but it was still a fun stop.Okumaya devam et

  • Road Zzyzx

    12 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    Most people only know that there's a funny sign as you are nearing Las Vegas, marking the exit to Zzyzx Road. I actually managed to read about its history, which I found really funny, so I wanted to stop and take a look around. I'll just copy and paste this as it would take forever to type out with my words...

    "In 1944, Curtis Springer, a radio evangelist in 1944, Curtis Springer, a radio evangelist from Los Angeles, decided that he would reinvent the area formally known as Soda Springs by turning the mineral springs found there into the basis for a resort. After filing a mining claim with the government, he got permission to use the lands (under false pretenses) and called it Zzyzx because he wanted to have the last word in the dictionary.
    He hired several workers to help him create his resort, developed an area for people to stay, and imported various types of plants to add to the atmosphere. From there, his resort took off and brought people from all over to try his fake medicines and experience the “relaxation and healing” that he provided. In the 1970’s the government realized what he was doing on the land he claimed to have got for mining and kicked him and his followers out. Thus the land was taking over and eventually given to the CSU system which runs it now as a desert research center. "

    In the end it wasn't the abandoned resort that really impressed us, but the 5 mile drive to it. It rove past a huge salt flat, that just became bigger and bigger as we drove past it (this salt flat is what the research center is here to study). We had to stop multiple times to wake around, take photos, and taste the salt (it really was salt, as we now know).
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  • Last stop before Vegas, Baker

    12 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    At this point it was 7 in the evening, and we have been driving since about 9,so we were getting pretty tired. So getting an energy drink was actually the main reason we decided to stop at Baker, all its famous sights just came as a plus. Well it was also another place mentioned in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which meant Seamus definitely wanted to stop anyway. The stupid engine cover under our car started dragging on the ground again, so we also bought some duck tape to try and make it stay up. We managed to see the world's biggest thermometer, and a funky alien themed shop too just before it closed.Okumaya devam et

  • Arriving to Las Vegas

    12 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ 🌙 12 °C

    It was definitely the best decision to drive into Vegas in the dark, as the casinos start with their funky lights and signs way outside of town. We drive past one that had an enormous roller coaster surrounding its hotel building! I'll have to update this with photos from the camera later, as I took a lot of cool ones. Thankfully our chosen casino/hotel was really easy to drive into as it is near the end of the strip, and we didn't need to drive in a crazy traffic jam or anything. Oh by the way we took forever to decide on a hotel, reading so many opinions, reviews discussions about the different hotels. God they are all so opinionated, people spend a lot of time in Vegas, however fun it was, I can't imagine personally experiencing it 10+different times in different hotels, I think I would have better ways to spend my time at that point. Anyway we decided to stay at Treasure Island, which is a slightly older one with no crazy theme, but we got a better price for it, and we can walk into all the other ones to experience them anyway. We decided to book it for both Thursday and Friday, as checking out at 10 the next day and finding a new place sounded really painful. It was a hard decision, as for Friday the price was about 5 times higher. At checkin we mentioned that we are newlyweds, hoping for a cooler room or something, and at least we managed to get a free bottle of champagne out of it! Although calling room service they told us it will be about 40 minutes until it arrives...Okumaya devam et

  • Our first night in Vegas

    12 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ 🌙 13 °C

    "I was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo" - Hunter S Thompson

    We arrived in Vegas just after sunset and it truly was an interesting experience, we weren't under the influence of LSD and ether like Thompson but it still felt like some kind of weird trip walking through the Casino floor seeing all of the weirdest examples of Americans waddling around whooping like cowboys and riding mechanical bulls in our hotel casino and bar. We didn't get a room upgrade but we did score a free bottle of champagne for being on our honeymoon which was a good start to the onslaught of free drinks we were given, about that - if you want to go out in Vegas without bankrupting yourself, play penny slots. 1 cent a spin and a waitress will be around every 10 minutes with any cocktail or drink you could ever want. They make them strong too since they want you to get drunk and gamble all your money away. We spent 2 dollars on the slot machine and won 30 almost immediately! Deciding to quit while we were ahead we only played the 1 cent slots for the rest of the evening meaning we probably spent 3 or 4 dollars visiting all of the flashy casinos drinking crazy cocktails until 4 in the morning! The casinos have crazy architecture and things inside like an enormous shark tank or full size replica of the trevi fountain or a 1/3 scale model of the Eiffel tower

    Once it gets late on the strip all of the even stranger people start to emerge in the casinos which Seamus quickly made friends with! After we could barely stand from tiredness and the horrifying mixture of cocktails we went and had fast food, there must have been something in the drinks because we managed to have an argument over a cheeseburger that left Seamus in tears :D we quickly recovered and passed out for a lovely 3 hours of sleep
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  • A walk on the strip in the morning

    13 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    After going to bed sometime after 4, we still woke up a bit before 8, and as it felt like we were not very likely to fall back asleep, we decided to go for a walk on the strip in the daylight too. It actually stretches along for multiple miles, so we didn't even make it all the way to the end, and still walked quite a lot. The casinos look quite cool in the morning too (although they are best at night of course). Most of them have an elaborate theme going on, so the Paris casino has a replica of the Eiffel tower, that is 1/3 of the original size, and is full of fancy French restaurants. The venetian has canals around it where you can ride gondolas in, and also has a replica of the bell tower of St. Mark's Basilica. The Flamingo casino had a nice garden inside, with all kind of birds living in it, including (you guessed it) a flock of flamingos. In front of one casino they had live music, dancers, and daytime fireworks. We went inside a shopping mall, where the ceiling of the mall is made to look like it is daylight all day, and there's a part where they have a rainstorm, with lightning and actual rain falling every half an hour. Which sounds really cool (at least it sounded awesome to me when a colleague of mine told me about it back in Scotland), but it was a bit underwhelming to be honest. For breakfast we tried panda express, and had a Starbucks coffee (there's literally a Starbucks on every corner, and yet there's still a big line in most of them. It's like they don't know any other coffee exists).Okumaya devam et

  • Shooting one big gun

    13 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    We were handed a flyer promising 20 dollars off at some shooting range, and Seamus actually wanted to go to one, as he was interested in shooting a fully automatic machine gun. When we showed up, of course it turned out that we can only use the coupon if we spend more than a 100 dollars, and we didn't really want to do that, so in the end he just settled on paying for having only one shot with a 50 caliber sniper rifle. It was only 20 bucks, and it seemed like a once in a lifetime opportunity. There was actually a short line, so we had to wait around in the hall, which was also a gun shop. We got slightly freaked out seeing how you can just buy a brand new gun for 200-300 dollars easily, especially with the gunshots coming from the firing range in the background, for a while we kind of decided we never want to move to this country, with all these guns around... Finally Seamus's turn came around, so we both put on ear protection and went inside. There was another guy firing an ak47 inside, which was so so loud that it really hurt your ears even with the protectors on. Actually Seamus's gun was about the same loudness as that one. He said that the recoil wasn't actually that strong, but the fireball was so bright that it hurt his eyes a little bit.Okumaya devam et

  • Red Rock canyon national monument

    13 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    The red rock national monument is just outside Las Vegas city territory - so it's "only" 20 kilometers drive on big straight roads form the centre of the city to get to city borders. At this point you can already see the rocks, as they are really really red even from a distance. From far away they almost look small, compared to the other dark mountains surrounding the city, just a speck of redness. But once we got into the park, and parked at the first viewpoint, they felt really really big: we kept spotting hiking people and wondering how tiny they are, and realising that boulders that looked small, were the size of a small building. At this first stop we only walked around a little bit, and claimed up one empty boulder. It is really fun to climb around the sandstone, as the plastic of our shoes really sticks to it, it is like having gravity boots on! Then we drove on a bit more on the scenic 20 km route, and I chose a reasonable looking hiking trail to do. We were a bit tired and hungover at first, but walking around really helped to wake up up. It was a really really scenic walk, mostly in a canyon surrounded by various colours of red rocks. Also, quite a lot of bushes, plants, and cactuses were flowering too. In the end we were rewarded with a view of the whole city of Las Vegas, we could easily make out multiple famous casino buildings. It really made you see how big and stretched out the town is, it is crazy that only 600 thousand people live there!Okumaya devam et

  • Laundromat and some more food

    13 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    This morning we both put on our last clean clothes (Seamus just wore a sweater all day even for hiking as he had no shirts left...), so after 2 weeks away from home we really needed to wash our clothes. It is quite cool we lasted this long, considering we left from Malaga with just a backpack each. We did buy a few new clothes here too, so that helped of course. We had 3 plastic bags completely full of clothes, and the laundromat had machines that were capable of washing that much at the same time. While the clothes washed and dried we sat around looking up places where we could eat something. Vegas has lots of crazy restaurants, especially buffets, so we were considering splurging on something amazing. Unfortunately by the time we would get back and take a shower (we really needed one) it would have been too late for these places to eat at. So we decided to have a breakfast/brunch buffet the next day, and just find something cheap on the outskirts where we were, near the Laundromat. I found a place famous for their philly cheese steak, so we shared one of those and some chilly cheese fries. At the end we had to walk back through the whole floor of the casino in our hotel, with our 3 plastic bags full of clothes, it was a really funny feeling. It actually sparked a conversation in the elevator, we looked so funny and out of place with them.Okumaya devam et

  • Second vegas night out

    14 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ 🌙 15 °C

    We arrived back to the hotel around 8:30, so we had some time to shower and rest before starting another night out. We wanted to start out with watching the Mirage volcano erupt, and seeing the Bellagio fountain show, as we noted the times for these on our morning walk. We watched the volcano first, which only happens 2 times every night. I expected something small and only entertaining for children, but I was very pleasantly surprised, it was really cool to see. So there's this volcano in the middle of the lake, and there's loud grumbling noises, water that splashes up like lava, as it is illuminated by orange lights, and a few enormous flamethrowers on the top of the volcano that sometimes erupt, so strong you can feel the warmth of them on your face. There also a lot of smaller flamethrowers sprinkled around the lake, that light up together, they look super pretty as they reflect over the water. All in all it was really entertaining for something that is completely free!
    Then we walked on with the crowd to the Bellagio hotel. On the way there were tons of people dressed up in costumes, they were advertising different shows, or casinos, or strip clubs. We watched the fountain show to the 'Viva las Vegas' song, which was quite cool too, the water sometimes went really really high, and made a load splashing noise when it came down. Then we tried setting up lyft (an uber like app) on my phone too, to get some special discount, which took so long, that we saw another fountain show, which was actually much more fun then the first one. I can't really say why, it had a better choreography I guess :D. The fancy Bellagio Hotel that we were next to has exiled the ride sharing taxis to the basement, but our driver didn't seem to know about this, so it took about 20 minutes to find him, frequently talking to him on the phone trying to figure out where he was, and being chased away from the fancy entrance by employees wearing hats, as they saw we were not looking for a traditional taxi. We even ran after a car for about a 100 meters, which fit the description, which turned out to be just filled with middle aged Asian tourists. Finally we managed to find each other though, and we could start our long drive out to the Freyman Street Experience. It was really bad traffic, and we had to drive around the whole town it seemed to get there - and then the app gave us a price of less then 10 dollars, it was incredibly cheap! The freyman Street experience was something that Seamus has found as somewhere we need to go to (sorry Seamus but I do 95% percent of out planning - you do the driving though, so it's not completely imbalanced). Just a few hours ago the lady helping us in the laundromat also told us that we definitely need to go too. It turns out, that this is a much more real Las Vegas, in the "what happens in Vegas stay in Vegas" kind of way. The strip is something where you could easily take your kids (and we saw lots of families walking around). Here there was a much much higher percentage of drunk people, much more trashy ones at that too, and the streets were full of crazy performers. Like a little short white guy rapping terribly, surrounded by enthusiastic drunk people, practically naked girls, who will spank you for some money, or let you pick them up and have a photo taken, a guy holding a sign asking to kick him in the balls, and just all kinds of crazies. There were also lots of clubs to party at as well. We walked around looking at all the silly people, went into a few casinos (these also had some crazy things in them, like one of them had an aquarium big enough to have a shark in it). At around 1-1:30 we realised we were way too tired to do this anymore, so we decided to hunt down some kind of food, and then head home. We found a place with some slices of pizzas and then took another lyft home, and collapsed into sleep.
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  • Brunch buffet at the Red Rock casino

    14 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    So Seamus has a favorite YouTube channel called wort it, where 2 guys try out 3 food places in different price categories, for example sushi, or steak, and the food always looks really good. Most of the episodes are set in LA but they had one in Vegas trying out buffet places, and this buffet was their cheap category. Unfortunately it was a Saturday, so it was brunch with unlimited champagne, which made it a bit more expensive, but it was still quite cheap for the ridiculous amount of food they had. We got in quickly without a wait, as it was still quite early at 10:30, and then got set up with some mimosas by our waiter, and then we went exploring the food options. We didn't even get 1/3 of the way, and our plates were full... They had all kind of Asian food:sushi, sashimi, all kinds of stir frys, our favorite, the walnut shrimp, Korean bbq ribs, etc and this was just the Asian section. They also had multiple hams and roasts that they hand carved for you, and you could ask for a fresh omelette to be made for you as well. There was a big American breakfast section, with pancakes, waffles, eggs benedict, and a huge pile of perfectly cooked bacon, that I added a few of to every plate that I got. It really is impossible to list all the different stuff they had, let alone taste it all, but we gave it a pretty good try. I think we spent about an 1.5 there, taking our time to be ready to eat again (it never really happened, after the first bite we always realised that we are full again). In the end we finished with 3 slices of pies, as they had a selection of maybe 8 different ones.Okumaya devam et

  • Valley of Fire State Park

    14 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    Another good day trip I was recommended around Las Vegas was the Valley of Fire State park. It was a bit further, about 1-1.5 hours drive, but it was worth the drive. Although after this we felt like we were deserted out a little bit, and would prefer to not have sand and sun and super dry air. Seamus gets a huge electric shock every time he gets out of the car, or tries to do any other ordinary day to day thing. On the way to the park we stopped at a shop that sells a huge amount of fireworks, and cheap alcohol - it turned out that it was a shop on an Indian reservation, so you don't have to pay tax on item bought there, and also they allow you to blow up your fireworks next to the shop in the desert. (you can't do it outside of there, unless it's the 4th of july).
    When we entered the park we were greeted near the entrance by a group of huge horned antílope creatures that I have no idea what they are but looked really cool. Here too we drove around the park, wanting to take a photo of every hill we drove past, and stopped at a couple of places to walk around at. The first one we did was famous because of the ancient drawings that were all over the walls. The second one led to a rock formation called the fire wave.
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  • A tired night of Mexican food and motel

    14 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ 🌙 19 °C

    We left the desert at dusk, and we were exhausted so we just looked for the closest and cheapest motel, which turned out to be on the east side of Las Vegas.
    We were pretty hungry though, and I found this very well rated Mexican restaurant about 10 minutes away, so we headed there first. At the entrance we found about 10 people waiting for tables, and they told us that they have been waiting for 10 minutes and will probably wait for 20 more. We were almost out the door, when the hostess asked us if it would be OK for us to sit at the bar, in which case we could sit immediately. Of course we were happy to do that. The place was funnily decorated, had alive guitar player singing Mexican songs, and Gib TV playing horrifying Mexican telenovelas, with the subtitles turned on. We got 2 beers, and a huge bowl of nachos that came with it. We ordered a plate of little starters, that we could barely finish, as we already got full on nachos. All in all it was a really nice place, and afterwards we fell into our beds sometime before 11 as zombies...Okumaya devam et

  • Mojave desert & getting to LA finally

    15 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    We woke up after a long night's sleep, and we realised we really need to try and contact Ester néni, if we want to stay with her the same night. Seamus went down to ask the front desk, to ask if we can use a phone to call her. He came back telling me excitedly that there's a breakfast downstairs. It was really surprising, as it was literally the cheapest motel we could find in the area... We had some coffee, oatmeal, and toasted waffles, and I managed to call Ester from the front desk, and get their address. We had an about 4.5 hours drive ahead of us, which at the time didn't seem too bad, so I decided we should make a detour into the Mojave desert, as we missed that on our way to Las Vegas. It turned out to be a quite long drive, but it was very pretty, and I didn't want to just drive all day, so it was good that we went. There were long straight endless roads, abandoned buildings, and the largest Joshua tree forest in the US (actually is bigger than in Joshua Tree National Park). These trees are the strangest trees I've even seen, growing in weird directions, and super spiky. We had a tomato throwing competition at one.
    Getting out of the desert we joined up with all the traffic going back to LA on a Sunday afternoon, so we had some really slow traffic. In the end we made it to Esther's House at 9 in the evening. We were a bit worried that we can't let them know that we will be slightly late, and we were slightly right, as they were waiting with dinner for us, but have already ate theirs. Still we were given a warm welcome, maybe even more so, as they gave up on us arriving that night already. We had some beer and rakott krumpli in the kitchen, and then had a super comfy night's sleep again.
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  • The Mad Greek

    15 Nisan 2018, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    After getting out of the desert we needed some food for the rest of the drive, os we stopped at a funky Greek diner, that promised to have the best gyro in America and amazing strawberry milkshakes. While I can't judge if it really is the best gyro in America (it probably wouldn't be in Europe, but it was pretty good) but the milkshake really was amazing, it had actual strawberries in it, which basically won the race for it already compared to most places.Okumaya devam et