31. May Grand Canyon

June 01: Update. Added pictures. We saw Elk, deer, raven, vultures and different small animals. But most of all we saw mountains in sunrise and mountains in sunset.


May 31. : We have been on a Sunrise Tour (got up at 4:00), been for a long walk and taken the bus about a mile to get to the Park Center. The Wi-Fi is a little bit better here, but picture upload is still impossible. We will see what we can do tomorrow from Bryce Canyon.

30. May The Arizona desert

June 01: Updated with pictures.

May 30: We drove from Las Vegas, over the Hoover Dam, through the deserts and over the mountains to Grand Canyon, The interntet connection here is so slow we will have to wait with furter uploads.

29. May Las Vegas

This building (The Flamingo Hilton Hotel) needs a special comment:
In 1991, my company had a contract for the automation of all garbage handling systems on the world's largest cruice ship Sovereign of the Seas. Since a cruice ship is nothing but a floating hotel, this led to a job for automation of the garbage systems in Flamingo Hilton as well. I did the programming, and went over in the middle of the summer to stay one week for commissioning. The leftovers and other kitchen garbage is ground to a pulp and pumped to another building 0.5 miles down the road, where the water is extracted and the rest is transported on trucks to incinerators somewhere. When I got there, the first thing they had to do was to dig a big hole in the street to fix a blocked pipe. Then a lot of the cables turned out to have been wired incorrectly. We had to cancel the holiday in Finland and after 5 weeks I was able to return home.

28. May Last train to Las Vegas

Even after several days on the train, we are not the least bit bored. Today we went from Emeryville to Bakersfield by train and to Las Vegas by bus.

27. May San Fransisco

We were walking all day in the streets of San Fransisco. Since today is Memorial day tomorrow, and they were celebrating the 75th year old Golden Gate bridge, it was packed with people. There was aeroplanes writing congratulations in the sky and a huge bunch of sealions on the floating wharfs. We missed the fireworks.

26. May The Sierras - Emmeryville

 Another day on the train. As soon as we crossed the Californian border, it started raining. Sunny California did not turn out quite as we had expected.

Some comments overheard

........   yeah,sure, theyv'e got mountains over there
.........  oh yeah, the Sierras
......... if it's ten thirty, this gotta be Reno
....... then I asked him: how are you suppoesd to keep the terrorists from taking over our trains if you only select passengers at random for security checks. Well I sure hope you select the right persons!
..... then after about a year you can take her to the Temple

..... sure I can box it up for you, and would you need some silverware too? ... plastic silverware (box er det samme som en doggybag)