Roadtrip California + Las Vegas Part 1

Hi yall, this is the first update off our Roadtrip to Cali. Pics still to come....

Like every good road trip, ours started the night before departure with goodbye wings at Pluckers and Dollar Beers @ Cain and Abels. But first, Thomas and I had to move out of our apparment. Thats when we both realazied how much stuff we still have left to bring back home to Germany. Will be interesting to see how things work out in two weeks.


On wednesday we flew in to San Diego where the first surprise was the weather. Beeing used to the Texas heat, Cali so far is quiet cool. The sky was quiet clody, definetly not a good beach day.
First we were off to the rental car office. While crusing around in search for the AAA we realized something on the transmission of the car is broken, thus, we had to exchange it later on the day. Afterwards, we visited all of San Diego´s Beaches including one with seals covered all over. At night we saw the Mavs loose in Game 5. So after the game we went back to our room quite dissapointed.


Next day we visited San Diegos main attraction Sea World. We saw Shamu, took a rollercoaster ride and attened all the other animal shows. In the afternoon we drove up the coast to Los Angeles southern beaches Newport, Huntington and Long Beach (where we had a greece dinner).

Friday we had a very long day as we visited our second national park. Joshua Tree National Park is packed with cool looking trees. We went for a short hike to the largest trees of the park and afterwards we drove to all the main sites. Since the park is located in the desert between LA and Las Vegas the temperatures hit 100. Then we experienced LA´s traffic, when it took quite a while to get even close to our motel, located in East Hollywood. After watching another disapointing Mavs loss and having dinner, we closed the night with a midnight stroll around Hollywood Boulevard's main attractions, the Chinese Theater and the Star Walk.

Saturday the weather at the coast improved. Therefore, after a short morning visit to downtown, we drove through Beverly Hills and walked up and down the boutiques at Rodeo Drive, before finally arriving at some of LA's top beaches at Santa Monica and Venice. We relaxed a little while in the sun and took some bad ass pictures of Steffen the new Baywatch Trainee. The last hours we drove up highway nummber one, which impressed with its stunning views. Late surprise this day, was a group of dolphins we only spoted because we got lost while looking for our motel.