California Roadtrip - Week #01...

...To keep you guys a bit up to date see below a short overview of what we did so far. We drove already over 1,200 miles :-)

* San Francisco, California
From Saturday to Wednesday morning - we did there all important sights like the Golden Gate bridge, Golden Gate Park, Union Square, Alcatraz, Muir Woods, etc. This city is wonderful and I liked the place very much. Fortunately we could stay at the place of a friend of mine so they gave us some insider tips. Thanks again to Eszter and Jay!

* Berkely, California
On Wednesday morning we made a short stop at the famous university there.

* Yosemite National Park, California
This park was really wonderful. I have to upload some pictures - as you know they say more than thousand words.

* Death Valley National Park, California
We stayed all Thursday long at the national park. The park is very big and it's great what you can see there. Nice mountains, sand dunes, the deepest point in the U.S., etc.
In the evening we left the park and drove to Beatty where we stayed over the night. Beatty is a typical U.S. country side town where we found a nice saloon with cowboys :-)

* Las Vegas, Nevada
Friday evening to Sunday afternoon. We expected a lot from Vegas - but it was not too much. It is a crazy place and super artificial. You can gamble wherever and all the time you want. We stayed at the Excalibur hotel (its built like a castle :-)), had a great brunch at the Bellagio and went to lots of good bars and clubs like the 'Coyote Ugly' (like in the movie) and to 'The Bank'.

Today in the afternoon we left Vegas and drove to the Bryce Canyon (Utah) where we are now in a motel. We will drive through the canyon tomorrow and go later on to the Grand Canyon (Arizona).