After Napa we went to San Francisco. Traffic was pure hell, and we cursed the day we rented the car. After nearly gotten towed away (JR was quick to stop them, and they
left us with a ticket instead) we found a little hostel in an alley. We went for pasta in Little Italy, I can say that the combination American Italian, will break all sound records ever. We got nearly deaf after a visit to an Italian restaurant. Kasper, our old team manager was also in San Fran, so we meet him, for drinks at a bar, overlooking the whole city.
We stayed for two days, and then we kept going to Salinas, to settle the culture part of our trip, the author John Steinbeck lived in that city and most of his books is written in that environment. JR is a big fan of him!
Between Salinas and LA we had a conversation about why Americans own lamas. They are everywhere, it seems like the all American owns a lama. Why? What do they use them for? To they milk them? Or are they just using them as pets? My experience tells me that lamas are grumpy animals that will spit in your face if you don’t watch out. Maybe Americans like to be spitted in the face? I don’t know.
We stopped to see the famous Madonna Inn, were not one room look like the other, With it’s 109 unique rooms decorated after I-don’t-know-what-taste, this place had a high kitsch factor.
LA was not a beautiful city. It looked like suburbia and don’t understand why its so fancy to live there? Santa Monica was better, with it’s never ending beaches. After LA it was time to head back to Seattle. We just had 200 miles to drive. In Seattle we stayed at a very cool stylish hotel, called The Ace and went out to a Tiki bar, in other words, a Hawaiian restaurant.
Then it was time to go back to back, and we were once again in VC!
Strange things I have seen during my trip:
A guy dressed as Elvis
Winona Ryder
21 pair of shoes on the roads (without it’s owner)
A girl with a kangaroo in a restaurant
Jonas Åkerlund
100 fat hillbillies eating at McDonalds on a Saturday
Several dead possums
4-5 ginger kids
