SUNTREK TOUR
Hi,
we arrived in Orinda, close to San Fransisco where we'll stay a few days with Joe, Sarah, Kylie and Sydnie. The last week we couldn't write something to you guys, because we were on a tour. the 12th we flew from JFK (New York) to LAX (Los Angeles), took a cab to the Holiday Inn, where the next morning our suntrek tour started. I,m not going to write everything we saw, did, ...; because that would take to much time right now, But I,ll tell all of you later what happened over here in sunny, California. I,ll give you already a bit of our adventure; the 13th we met our tourguide Joe, a really nice guy and the 11 other people we would travel with, it were all girls, most of them were aupairs and most of them were from germany. The first day of the tour we visited LA (Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Venice Beach) and drove to Joshua Tree National Park. The next day we went to lake Havasu, route 66 and the Grand Canyon; one of the 7 natural wonders of the world (if you see it, you believe that, I even flew over it by helicoptre), all this days we camped (the campfires were great), but the next day we went (after visiting Oatman), to Las Vegas where we stayed in a hotel (we didn't sleep that much there though). We visited a lot of casinos on the Strip, drove the biggest limousine in the world, and partied; but we couldn't go into clubs, because you have to be 21 (all ways the same song; not allowed to get into clubs, to gamble, to drink, but us being underage, didn't kept our tourguide from giving us some wodkamixes). We slept from 4 till 7, so the next day everyone was sleeping in the van. The next day we drove to Death Valley; where we walked a bit in bad water (the lowest place in the northern atmosphere) at night we camped outside of the desert, and we went to a hot spring before going to bed. The folowing we headed towards Mono Lake and Yosemite afterwards, where we rented a bike, went to the yosemite falls, climbed a rock,... The next day we went to San Fransisco; where we did a bit of sightseeing and in the evening we went to Fisherman's wharf, where we went on a sailing boat and went all the way around Alcatraz and under the Golden Gate Bridge. Today we went to the Golden Gate Park and then we walked accross the famous bridge, after that the tour ended. It was such a great experience; meeting so much people, visit so much amazing places in so little time,... It was a once in a lifetime experience, like a dream come true for me.
(Eating wasn't a problem for me, being a vegeterian because one of the girls and the tourguide were also vegetarian, so almost all the food they made was vegetarian.) So thanks to all the othet trekkers and to our fantastic tourguide Joe. Today after saying goodbye and checking out at 11 AM, we took BART to Orinda where we'll stay with another Joe. After visiting the town here and going to the local cinema, where we watched WTC, we finally met this nice family. I'm really tired now (we haven't slept that much and that good on our amazing trip of a week here in California. So some pictures will follow, tomorrow evening.
TTYL, Kurt (and vincent who went to bed)
we arrived in Orinda, close to San Fransisco where we'll stay a few days with Joe, Sarah, Kylie and Sydnie. The last week we couldn't write something to you guys, because we were on a tour. the 12th we flew from JFK (New York) to LAX (Los Angeles), took a cab to the Holiday Inn, where the next morning our suntrek tour started. I,m not going to write everything we saw, did, ...; because that would take to much time right now, But I,ll tell all of you later what happened over here in sunny, California. I,ll give you already a bit of our adventure; the 13th we met our tourguide Joe, a really nice guy and the 11 other people we would travel with, it were all girls, most of them were aupairs and most of them were from germany. The first day of the tour we visited LA (Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Venice Beach) and drove to Joshua Tree National Park. The next day we went to lake Havasu, route 66 and the Grand Canyon; one of the 7 natural wonders of the world (if you see it, you believe that, I even flew over it by helicoptre), all this days we camped (the campfires were great), but the next day we went (after visiting Oatman), to Las Vegas where we stayed in a hotel (we didn't sleep that much there though). We visited a lot of casinos on the Strip, drove the biggest limousine in the world, and partied; but we couldn't go into clubs, because you have to be 21 (all ways the same song; not allowed to get into clubs, to gamble, to drink, but us being underage, didn't kept our tourguide from giving us some wodkamixes). We slept from 4 till 7, so the next day everyone was sleeping in the van. The next day we drove to Death Valley; where we walked a bit in bad water (the lowest place in the northern atmosphere) at night we camped outside of the desert, and we went to a hot spring before going to bed. The folowing we headed towards Mono Lake and Yosemite afterwards, where we rented a bike, went to the yosemite falls, climbed a rock,... The next day we went to San Fransisco; where we did a bit of sightseeing and in the evening we went to Fisherman's wharf, where we went on a sailing boat and went all the way around Alcatraz and under the Golden Gate Bridge. Today we went to the Golden Gate Park and then we walked accross the famous bridge, after that the tour ended. It was such a great experience; meeting so much people, visit so much amazing places in so little time,... It was a once in a lifetime experience, like a dream come true for me.
(Eating wasn't a problem for me, being a vegeterian because one of the girls and the tourguide were also vegetarian, so almost all the food they made was vegetarian.) So thanks to all the othet trekkers and to our fantastic tourguide Joe. Today after saying goodbye and checking out at 11 AM, we took BART to Orinda where we'll stay with another Joe. After visiting the town here and going to the local cinema, where we watched WTC, we finally met this nice family. I'm really tired now (we haven't slept that much and that good on our amazing trip of a week here in California. So some pictures will follow, tomorrow evening.
TTYL, Kurt (and vincent who went to bed)
posted by Unknown at 7:23 PM
3 Comments:
Hoi Kurt,
I guess you don't know me. I'm Els Smets and I got this address from your dad. I didn't use the english language since I was 18 and believe me, that's a very very long time ago. Hope you understand all I try tot say!
Reading your tour experiences is really a very interesting thing. It's amazing how many impressions you get on each day!
I also like the photos. (Where is the little Kurt I used to know (in your "Zilverenhoek"-time of life)? )
You may be sure I'll follow the rest of your tour and I'm looking forward to each new blog from you.
Enjoy yourself, and keep all the beautiful memories as a treasure for your further life.
Greetings
els
Hallo Kurt en Vincent,
Wij hebben bezoek van linda marc nils en silke. We zijn samen naar Antwerpen geweest om de zeilboten te bekijken.
groetjes Hubert en Germaine.
hello guys, nice to hear you again. I hope Vincent isn't always sleeping perhaps he stayed too long at the campfires with somme beautiful girls
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