When we got back to Seattle, Anna flew up to Alaska as she had a 1 week business trip to her company's supplier factories and ships. I stayed in Seattle at Brads and explored Seattle a little more. I did not manage to get up the space needle which was a pity. I flew up to Anchorage - Alaska the end of the week. I arrived at the airport at 1am and decided to sleep on one of the benches. It was a bit of an uncomfortable sleep, but I survived. I had a train booked f...

Anna & I spent a day in Vancouver before she had to fly back to Paris. I like Vancouver, but did not have enough time to really get to know it. I had booked accomodation in Whistler for 2.5 weeks. I was going to ride my new bike till I no longer could. I took the Whistler Mountaineer train up from Vancouver and loved the spectacular scenery. On arrival I took a cab to my accomodation. It took a little while before I figured out how to get access to my flat. A...

Anna & I spent a day in Vancouver before she had to fly back to Paris. I like Vancouver, but did not have enough time to really get to know it. I had booked accomodation in Whistler for 2.5 weeks. I was going to ride my new bike till I no longer could. I took the Whistler Mountaineer train up from Vancouver and loved the spectacular scenery. On arrival I took a cab to my accomodation. It took a little while before I figured out how to get access to my flat. A...

We left San Francisco and made our way to Arcata. This was a lovely american town. We were lying on the bed chatting about the Titanic for some strange reason when the whole room started moving. It was wierd and scary. We made our way to the reception and asked what was going on. The receptionist seemed unconcerned and said it was just an earthquake. Well we found out later it measured 5.5 on the Richter scale. Mine & Anna's first earthquake experience. We ma...

I arrived in LA and American Airlines had not managed to lose my luggage. What a relief. I have heard US airlines are quite good at doing this. Anna was going to be landing in another 5 hours time and so I went and got a hire car and then drove to Venice Beach to the hostel that I had booked for us. Yes I was on a budget and 5 * luxury in LA is expensive. I then went and picked Anna up at the airport and was very happy to see her again. Anna's first comment when ...