Fant igjen dette panoramaet fra Oregons tørre stepper. Knut slapper av, Kari er på autopilot, musen sover i speedometerlavoen.
Category: USA 2012
Day 18: Consequences
Things are getting kinda droopy.
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Day 17: Weather craze
And from 35°C, the temperature violently dropped when the whole sky fell down on New York City. Little did we know that the hailstorm looked like this from above (shot by Dahni Jones), and little did we know that this wet and kind of romantic “NYC feeling” would cause fires, power outages and destruction in and around Newark Airport, which again would create great delays and even airplane cancellations from the entire world. Butterfly effect? Oh yes!
Quote from the local news media:
Jersey Central Power & Light reported roughly 10,500 customers had no power Wednesday night, while about 9,600 PSE&G customers were without service. However, roughly half of PSE&G’s outages were caused by a traffic accident.
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Little did we know that we’d be directly inflicted by this storm – not only by getting wet downtown and buying another umbrella, but by delaying our flight with 5 hours, 56 minutes and ticking.
It’s soon 02:08 in the night, and our plane is supposed to take off, 6 hours and 8 minutes after schedule. Kari has run out of juice and I am closing in as well. Too bad. Our flight was finely tuned for 20 o’ clock, giving us the Best Possible sleep/wake Cyclus™ with a short, yet pretty natural night and a very early, yet pretty realistic morning. Now it is totally fucked; we’ll be departing late in the night, and arriving in the end of the day.
Oh well. Here comes jet lag.
America – it has been an interesting experience. See you soon!
Day 16: Our 26th floor apartment
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Day 16: Waiting for interview 2 in Italian high society renaissance excess
We\’re interviewing Paul Goldberger in his home in Beresford Apartments, home of Glenn Close, Jerry Seinfeld et. al.
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Unlike some of Manhattan\’s prestigious co-op buildings, the Beresford accepts celebrities and politicians as residents. Current residents include comedian Jerry Seinfeld in Isaac Stern\’s former apartment, singer Diana Ross, actress Glenn Close, Betsy Gotbaum and Victor Gotbaum, magazine editor Helen Gurley Brown, reporter John Stossel, and movie producer David Brown, actor Andrew McCarthy, tennis player John McEnroe, Coach CEO Lew Frankfort, and Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit.[9] Former residents have included historian Alan Brinkley, diplomat Richard Holbrooke, Tony Randall, Rock Hudson, Margaret Mead, Laura Nyro[10] and Beverly Sills. [edit]
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Day 16: Interview 1 complete
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Day 16: Going to The New York Times
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Day 15: Hello, New York!
We’re here!
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Day 15: Goodbye San Fransisco International Airport
Kari (Møffy) og Knut (Pøffy) are on their way to Terminal one, and Kari is looking forward to having her coffee.
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Day 14: Goodbye Salut to San Francisco
So this years trip is coming to an end. Bawhawhaw! According to the program – I guess it is time to sum up everything in decorative, seemingly interesting, thought jamming sentences with post-ironic meaningless-to-answer-headlines.
Did we learn anything?
Well… Yes. America is great. In so many different ways.
- It is – as always as always – difficult to get a decent cup of coffee (too bad we didn’t make it to the R&R Diner this time, I hear they have some brew).
What we didn’t do that we should have done
While we think the well researched ad-hoc way of traveling is great and provides us with many great opportunities, there is one part we se needs some work: Staying.
We are so occupied with traveling and moving that we forget about staying.
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Problem: We always arrive late.
Even by Japanese speed-tourist standards, our two weeks on the road was a stretch when taking the length in comparison. Going North from Salt lake City when the destination is to the south-wes even had the tourist information puzzled for a while, and the distance increased as we wanted to see more of the country. Google has estimated our final road-toll to be AAAA miles, equivalent to BB hours on the road.
Is that much? We wouldn’t know!
Thus we invented the Stay/Go ratio, S/GKari og Knut Goes USA
S/G ratio: CC,CWhile most of our sleepovers were in the low/medium range, we sometimes got tempted to going higher end. Arriving late means we get little out of the lodging. And that it wasn’t worth it, as we saw little or nothing of it.
Where should we stay and where should we go?
Decide what are the go-miles and where are the stay-places.Solution: Decicivness
Stay
- Arrive as early as possible
- If not applicable, spend +1 day and leave early the second morning
- Use high end lodging
Travel
- Travel as fast and long as possible
- Stay as cheap and short as possible
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Problem: When we get to a great location, we don’t really know what to do with it.
Here I’ll give my ups to the charter planners. When we arrived in San Francisco, we used a lot of time on Yelp, finding where the restaurants and bars were in our neighborhood.
Solution:
1. Kickback
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Day -1, Day 0, Day 1
Å ha en bil eller andre typer tidslås/rom. Planlegg -1 dag til å undersøke
- Tourist information
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Kickback
Working with it!
I’ll try to update this thread as we go. In the meantime, here is the final salute to San Francisco, recorded in the once lavishly extraordinary Cliff House on the east coast of SF (now a little less lavish, but still in a great spot!)
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