Chpt-02 Las Vegas

Saturday,

as planned all the way I depart for Las Vegas where Holger, my coworker from Toulouse is still waiting. The path leads me through the Nevada desert.


"A horrible way to die!"

The Hotel is a big Disney-World gamble excitement center. However, it's probably the most luxurious Hotel I ever have stayed at.

The city? See yourself:



Who is who?





View from our hotel window







In Venice there is always dusk, all night long!


Yeah, they have THEM, too...




Been there yet? :-)

Hoover dam is just next door:



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I forgot to mention: while I arrived by car, Holger did it the American way:



Press "play" and enjoy the flight:

Well, I didn't have any time to edit the video, sorry for it's lenght and some stupid scenes at the beginning ;-)


The Hoover Dam once more from way above.

So much for Las Vegas. My car is waiting outside to take me to the Grand Canyon...

Chpt-01 San Diego

Hello everyone.

Just want to let you all know that I made it safely over to San Diego. Despite some ash-cloud problems I arrived just shortly before midnight. Olivier, a guy from Luxembourg which I met in Minneapolis, didn’t make it to the hostel before they closed, so we shared the room for a night.
Getting the rental car was no problem and after having an XXL-Breakfast (see the picture) I am now ready for seeing some cars at the dealers. Wish me all luck for finding one and talk to you later…


View from my apartment



Olivier and me


Our "Full American Breakfast"

In the meantime I've had the chance to check for some cars. Guys, it will not be a Prius. Somehow there's something heavier that attracted my eyes.

Here you can download my entire flight:

http://www.nickspace.de/kml/Flight.zip

If you have Google Earth installed, then unzip the file and double-click it. Thanks again to Sabine, Paul-Georg and Jürgen for the gadget that makes this possible! ;-)


GOT A CAR!!

Here comes little minor update: I just came back from the dealer I got my car at. Nope, it's not a Prius, it's the opposite:


See? It's got a spare tire! I couldn't resist :-/
Price was pretty okay, I think. How okay it really was I'll find out in Anchorage, but I'm pretty sure it was a good deal.

Ha, now's the perfect time to have a

beeeeeeeeeeeeeeerr!!


San Diego's "Old Town".


Another Mexican Food Table. After that I found I had enough of "All you can eat"! (this one was yummy, though)

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Well, today it's Saturday and that's my always planned day of departure. I'll just have to return the rental car this morning. "Olivia from Luxem-thing" as someone called him in a pub is so nice to help me with that.
Next stop on the route: LAS VEGAS! Holger has booked us into the some Hotel which seems to be one big swimming pool. Let's see...

First entry / Erster Eintrag

Hi Folks. Welcome to my little blog about my trip to the western part of North America. My journey will begin at 05/10/2010 (am 10. Mai). Three months later I will fly out of Anchorage again. My blogs will be written mainly in english but some German blogs might occur as well. My itinerary could look about like that:



You can subscribe to this blog by clicking "subscribe" ("Abonnieren") and you will get a so called "dynamic link" into your browser. Check it out!

If you have any idea what I mean by that, here is a link for RSS-Feed readers: http://nickgoeswest.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

So, stay tuned and enjoy the pictures I will publish here...

:-)

Nick