We’ve been spending a lot of time driving and to prevent herself from falling asleep in the car, Ang took up knitting. Unfortunately, she can only knit straight linesso she ended up with a cape for Morten! Hahahaha
Tag Archives: Round Trip USA 2009
Watch Out For the Hole!
While we were en route to Phoenix, we realized that we had almost missed a major Arizona Attraction: the meteor crater! Because Morten has wanted to visit the crater since he was a kid, we made a huge detour up North to visit the crater and the Petrified Forest National Park beside it the next day.
Morten Was Stopped By a Wiener
We stopped at K-mart yesterday in Phoenix, Arizona to get some snacks for the road. Ang and I got in just fine, but Morten was stopped by the door greeter dressed as a hot dog (she was promoting the store’s Halloween costumes). She wouldn’t let Morten in with his camera bag and he didn’t want to check it in at their counter so he had no choice but to stay at the entrance with the hot dog. Normally he’d argue about being denied access even though several women with large purses were being let through, but how can you argue with a frail woman in a hot dog costume!?
Detour to Denmark
Dear Denmark,
I think you’re missing a piece of your country! We were in California driving across some tree covered hills when the trees suddenly disappeared, flat plains of tanned grass took over, and a little Danish town called Solvang appeared.
Like a Scene Out of a Bad Movie
You know that scene in the movies where the laundry machine overflows because the main character puts in too much detergent and you think to yourself “yeah right, that’d never happen in real life. The instructions are written on the side of the box!” Well, I read the instructions on the side of the box and put the least amount of detergent in (bottom line of the scoop). Guess what happened? Yup, it overflowed with foam! The pictures you see are after I had put the wash through another cycle of plain water to try and rinse it out. Thank goodness I only had my sneakers in there!
Going Hollywood
LA has the scariest freeway / highway system I’ve ever come across (worse than driving in Russia!). We came so close to being hit by tailgaters, non-signalers, and crazy weavers in the six to eight lane concrete monstrosities that less than 10 minutes in, I knew I could never live in Los Angeles. We actually considered leaving LA right after dropping Kim off at his hotel for his conference.
Like Moths to a Flame
Approaching Vegas was overwhelming.You drive through miles of desert nothingness so dark at night that you can see the milky way and stars litter the skies like icing sugar on a chocolate cake. Then, you begin to approach a city of lights so bright you wonder if something is going to short circuit. The city gets bigger and bigger, and so do the buildings and towers. Suddenly you’re driving (or rather inching) along The Strip and your senses are overwhelmed by the stench of hundreds of people, the sounds of commercials and outdoor performances playing one after the other telling you that “Leanne Rhimes is performing at the Luxor” “Watch the #1 musical performance..” “Rated #1 show in all of Las Vegas” etc. as if you were on the set of Minority Report, and the bright lights twinkle, flash, and move across the buildings around you all trying to entice you to spend money at their resort. It’s an epileptic person’s worse nightmare.
From One to Four
This isn’t travelling. To me, travelling is when you have to constantly push your boundaries and don’t allow yourself the luxury of becoming complacent. It’s a learning process where you experience everything for the first time without the influence of others so that you can discover what you really love and hate. It’s a means of discovering yourself and learning to modify your habits and ways of thinking to become someone better than the person you were when you left. This is a vacation.
A Little Light Reading Anyone?
I arrived back home on Wednesday and I’ve been catching up with everyone and everything ever since (which by the way, involves a lot of food: Sushi at Kiku, Dim Sum at Red Star Seafood Restaurant, Thai at Green Basil and Brekkie at IHOP within the last 48 hours — oink oink). I still haven’t gotten around to resizing all my pictures from my last couple of weeks in Oz for posts. :S