For the joy of slow internet users

After days and days of hard work, finally for you the San Francisco Dossier. Enjoy abundantly, and be satisfied. Fiji will come in a few weeks. Australia...you'll see it when we come back alright? (I joke)



Our lovely San Francisco friends and hosts


Beautiful artistic photos of the pacific ocean
with traditional american landmarks (golden gate bridge and hoola hoop)


other artistic pictures, urban ones



the bright (friendship pictures) and the dark (giant seaweed injures) side of a beach day


decorating San Francisco


Regina Miami or Virgin Mary? And, more importantly, Frida or Roselli???


Golden Gate park and the Palace of fine arts


The hilliness of San Francisco stumped us


Beliefs mixture


no comment


Perfect house for mamma Linda & Japanese Tea Garden


From Emmanuel's place's roof.


Hilliness, more.


And more.


When we arrived we used the excuse that it was raining to stay inside and rest for two days, only to find out later that we had escaped a major storm resulting in the loss of the lives of many trees (if you don't believe us, we have more pictures. By the way, we also have more pictures of SF's hilliness).

Under the bites of the skiwear (squeraus,squirts, it has different names)

Here we are down under.
It's strange, we were expecting people to walk upside down hanging from the road, but everything looks quite similar to up over there. No kangaroos and koalas neither, yet. Maybe we took the wrong plane, we are not sure, we'll have to check it out.
Anyway at the airport there was a lovely smile holding a sign saying "Pietro & Yvonne", so either we took the wrong plane or not, we found great hospitality.
Crossing the equator was costly in terms of natural regularity (hence the title of the post) and burned skin, but it was worth it. In Fiji we met great people, saw wonderful places and ate interestingly good food. We also took part in the traditional kava nights (which if you aren't sure, means sitting on the floor for hours drinking muddy water that numbs your mouth and mind; once only privilege of the chiefs, today nocturnal hobby of a nation). Here in Sydney, we're experiencing some slight money withdrawing issues as well as digestive mess, but all staged in definitely pleasant weather with rainbow parrots in the garden and huge lizards watching us hidden in the lawn.
Yes, catching up with what we've been doing recently could be a long story, since even ten days of San Francisco left no trace on the blog, so I'll just use the gift of summary nature provided me with, leaving the details to Yvonne.
-S.F.=at first rain induced indoor rest, then locals-guided city sightseeing and eating good food and good fun along with intensive hoolahooping lesson.
-Fiji= tropical rain wet sightseeing, sun burned skin barbecue on the beach, crammed buses and sweltering heat. Postcard paradise, great home cooking,wonderful experience.
-Sydney=arrived yesterday, stuck at home due to above written reasons, painful to re-mention, looking forward to broadening our horizons followed by getting informed on job and housing opportunities.
Bye to all you up there on the other side (don't jump of joy all together from reading this post, or we will fall into outer space), we miss you

Peter

P.s. no pictures for today as we can't connect our laptop to the internet. I was pondering putting a weather information on the blog too, soo you'd know what we have to face everyday-and be very jealous, but I'm too lazy, so no jealousy for you. Maybe.

The great excitement revealed

Niagara Falls in the winter was so boring that we HAD to do this crazy sh*t.

Nature fights back

Moral: don't mess with giant seaweed

Gadgets of America

The week we rented a car

Artificial lake of Hoover Dam outside las vegas. Our first day of bus-freedom (But not waiting-in-queues-freedom. On our way there the line was about 2 miles long)


Driving to the Grand Canyon. After the last tour nature every night regains her power over the street.


We drove a long way, but when we got there, the fake guy told us it was closed.


Oh my! A real on the road trip! With even the road that goes far far in perspective and the curves between the mountains!


A ghost town: after the goldmines closed, what's left is a bunch of cement buildings, a saloon and a lot of rubbish.


Eventually we would stop and take a walk in the desert just to get the feel of it.


Oh look how nice a flower in the desert. The flower of patriotism also blooms in the american country (the sign says:"U.S:Army: become twice the person in half the time")


An Iceland-like side of California


The beloved Joshua tree. They are threatened by global warming before even deciding if they are trees or cacti.


There are parts of California that live under a permanent shroud of fog and uncertainty.


Us at the giant sequoias. Some are dead some are alive.
+10% points in the visitor contest at the first that spots Yvonne in one of the pics.


A beautiful beach (by the way it closes at sunset) and Yvonne's disappointment when she found out that it wasn't a cave.