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12/6: So we had reached the last destination on our roadtrip. Yosemite National Park. And really, there isn’t much to say. The pictures can barely give you a feeling of the magnificense of this natural wonder. But never the less, I will try to show you. As the geography nerd I am, this sight madeContinue reading “Chapter 238: Yosemite”

11/6: The map is misleading when it comes to the last stretch of the 49 before it reaches the turnoff toward Yosemite. On the map, the road looks pretty straight and easy. But as the geographer I’m supposed to be, I should have known not to trust the map so fully. I’ve had entire coursesContinue reading “Chapter 237: Night time mountain driving”

11/6: The guidebook said that if we did a slight detour from the 49, we would arrive in Calveras Big Trees State Park. And there, along an easily hiked trail, we would see some of the largest trees in the world. Well, as the tree lover I am (and seeing as I was the oneContinue reading “Chapter 236: You won’t believe the sequoias”

11/6: Highway 49 is the highway that goes north to south along the Californian feet of the Sierra Nevadas. Mostly, it is a narrow road that crawls up and down the slopes and to drive there, you really need to concentrate in order to not just drive off the mountainside. The landscape along the highwayContinue reading “Chapter 235: Along the 49”

In Placerville, Hanna and I decided to do the only respectable thing you can do if you happen to find yourself in need of breakfast in the United States of America. We went to a diner and ordered the breakfast special. And really, I was in heaven. Normally I don’t like breakfast, back in myContinue reading “Chapter 234: My first real American diner experience”

11/6: We ended up sleeping at a cosy little motel in Placerville instead. And when we woke up on Monday morning, we realised that we couldn’t have ended up in a better place in this old gold country. Because Placervill has all the aesthetics of an old gold town, with the wild west movie setContinue reading “Chapter 233: Placerville”

Back in real time, today, Wednesday the eleventh of July 2012, I finally finished “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy. It’s been a long journey, both physically, mentally and timewise. I started reading it one morning in Frida’s dorm room in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in the beginning of March. Now I’m in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, CaliforniaContinue reading “Chapter 232: Today, the eleventh of July”

10/6: It was in Coloma in 1848 that the first Californian gold was found. Today, they have made the place into a strange kind of amusment park. Luckily, we drove through after closing time. We just got a shot each of the old Trading Post, and then we continued on our way toward a reasonablyContinue reading “Chapter 231: Where the gold rush started”

10/6: The guidebook said that Nevada City was a pretty little town, built by newly rich golddiggers back during the gold rush in the middle of the 1800s. So, even though it was slightly out of our way, we thought it could be worth a visit. Maybe we could even find a good motel thereContinue reading “Chapter 230: Nevada City”

10/6: In Colusa, a small town in the middle of the valley, we decided to fill up on gas. I went into the gas station shop to ask if there was any place nearby where we could buy pancakes, but when the very fat woman behind the counter just said no and looked at meContinue reading “Chapter 229: My impression of Colusa”