Back home.

After waiting in airports, sitting in planes for 20 hours, we arrived saturday morning in Brussels. Our parents and brother and sisters were there waiting for us, to welcome us back home in Belgium.
The 30th of august we took the bus to Santa Monica, a part of Los Angeles, at the ocean. After walking a bit around we decided to rent ourselves some bikes, so we followed the bike trial that followed the ocean. Afterwards we went back to Hollywood, to see Pirates of the Caribbean that evening in the El Capitan theatre. This was more then a standard movie experience, they played live movie music, there were props from the movie,...
The next day, our last day of our journey to the states, we went to Universal City, where we did the city walk; then we walked around in the neighbourhoud of Hollywood; to Paramount Studios,... Then we walked to the Hollywood Bowl and went back to the Hollywood Boulevard, through the Hollywood Hills, where we went to see Snakes on a Plane in the Chinese Theatre, it's really a great movie. Afterwards we ate something and went back to our hostels.
At 4:30 AM that night we started our journey back home. At 7:30 we had a first flight to Atlanta, in the airport there we had to wait 3 hours; Then we had a 8 hour flight to Brussels ahead of us, before our trip would really come to an end, which I really regret, I could have stayed in the states for a few more days, weeks, months, ... But no worries I'll be back.

So this is it, probably the end of this blog, I hope you all enjoyed it. I want to thank once more everyone, but especially the people I got to know in the States (also the ones from Germany,...), and even more especially the ones that let us stay in their homes, we really enjoyed it and we will see each other again. I loved everyday of this trip, it was really such a great experience: I did and saw so much in so less time, it's amazing!

Kurt.

San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, LA

Hey, it has been a long time since we posted something, isn't it? We couldn't use the www the last days, cause we were travelling like real hikers. First we went to San Luis Obispo, where we stayed in a hostel (which was much more familiar as the previous hostels) We walked a lot in this village, trying to find "downtown", where we spent a few hours: we ate really good natural food in the "natural cafe".
The next day we took once more, a 'greyhound'bus, to Santa Barbara. There we hadn't booked a hostel before we left on this trip. So we tried to find something, we ended up in the State Street Hotel, where we got a room with 20 percent discount. While travelling these few days, the temperature got higher and higher (it's really hot here in Hollywood). In Santa Barbara which is a beautiful coast city, we walked on the pier, went for a little while on the beach, we walked around in the centre of the city, went for the second day in a row to the natural cafe. Later that evening we went to the movies and saw "the illusionist", a good, but a bit strange movie. Afterwards (after trying to get in and out of our hotel) we went for a "night"walk, which was really great.
The next day, which is yesterday, the 28th of august; we took the bus in the direction of Hollywood. When we arrived here, it was another temperature shock. We walked for the third day in a row with our heavy bags through a city. This time on the famous Hollywood Boulevard. Finally we found our hostel, located only 0.1 mile from the chinese theatre, Kodak theatre, walk of fame,... We bought ourselves a citypass (50 bucks) and did two of the four attractions that evening. We did a two hour tour with a van, that guided us to all the homes of the celebrities here in the Hollywood Hills, Beverly Hills. After eating, and going to the Wax Museum (citypass), we did a long walk to the sunset strip, where we saw a lot of famous places where celebrities hang out,...
Today we started our day (after going to Starbucks for a breakfast) with a Redline Hollywood Tour; we saw a famous acting school, the egyptian theatre, el capitan theatre,... Then we took the metro to downtown LA, where we saw the civic centre, little tokyo, chinatown,... Then we headed back to Hollywood, got ourselves tickets to be in the audience of a tv show. So at 6 PM we waited to get in to see the Jimmy Kimmel Live show. Some famous guests were there; Pat Green (grammy nominee),... It was an amazing experience, as is whole this trip!

TTYL, Kurt and Vincent.

Thanks for the comments Cathy, Rosa, parents, ...
See you again soon!

Monterey bay

First we went to Starbucks to have a croissant and a coffee (cappucino for Vincent, coffee Americano for Kurt). Then we headed to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where we walked around for two hours and saw some amazing fishes, jellies, sharks, ... At noon we walked to the Fishermans Wharf, where we walked around and went in some souvenir shops, ... Then we went to Taco Bell, another fastfood restaurant, where Kurt had a Bean Burrito, cheese caesadilla and a coke for 5 bucks, Vincent ate a supreme Burrito and something else. Afterwards we started trying follow the signs of the path of history, which lead us to the first brick house, the city hall, an old jail, ... At 4:30 PM we went back to the hostel, but it was closed, so we had to wait half an hour. A bit later we walked to Pacific Grove, where we walked around and at 6:15 we went to an hamburger restaurant, before going to the movies. We saw at 7:40 PM You, me and Dupree in the Lighthouse cinema (Yes, another movie with Matt Dilan). It was a funny movie. Afterwards we walked to the ocean and followed it back to the hostel, where we arrived at 10:45. Then we wrote this blogs,...

Greetings Kurtand Vincent.

PS, thanks for the comments.

24/08

We had breakfast, we made ourselfs some eggs,... And we got ready to leave. A bit before noon we took off with sarah to the greyhound station in Oakland. There we bought our tickets for 20$ and had to wait 45 minutes for our bus to Salinas, while waiting we ate our sandwiches.So drove from 1 PM to 5PM. When we arrived in Salinas we had to take an other bus to Monterey. After an hour we arrived at the Monterey transit. Then we started walking around trying to find our Hostel with our backpacks on our backs. Because of Vincents orientation and Kurts remeberence of having a Starbucks near the hostel, we almost walked straight to the hostel.(tough it was hard)
After checking in we went for a walk on Cannery row. Then we shared an XL-pizza (which was a bit to XL) Then we went to the hostel and read the newspaper and all the folders we could find before going to sleep.

Kurt and Vincent

six flags and burgers

We woke up at 9.30 AM. We made our breakfast: eggs, a bagel and milk. Afterwards we tried to upload de photos from the memorystick on the computer. Then we noticed that our photos were gone!!! But no worries, we will be able to recover them when we are home. Then we wrote the blog and wrote some postcarts. When Joe came home we ate lunch and went to six flags marine world.
There we saw some shows: a bird show, tiger show, a killer whale,... and I (Vincent) went on some rollercoasters. We went in a splach. At 6 PM we left the park and went to a restaurant where we met the parents of Sarah. In the restaurant we ate some... burgers.
tomorow we are going to Monterey. We are staying in hostels, so it will be hard to write the blog, but we will try to update our blog as much as possible.

Vincent & Kurt