From May 6th to 28th, 2016, we’ve been on vacation in California. Here’s our itinerary: To California! Friday 6 May 2016: Travel day Saturday 7 May 2016: Oakland and Berkeley Sunday morning 8 May 2016: Walt Disney Family Museum Sunday afternoon 8 May 2016: San Francisco Monday 9 May 2016: San Francisco Scenic Drive, Japantown & Boudin Tuesday 10 May 2016: TWiT and a last [Weiterlesen]

(Gabi) About 90 minutes before landing the cabin crew switched on the lights und woke us up with a nice hot towel. Then they gave everyone a breakfast box. The croissant and the bread roll were pretty decent, as was the curious little cup of orange juice. That’s all I ate because my stomach was still a bit nervous. First glimpse of Switzerland. Smooth if [Weiterlesen]

(Gabi) Travel day! Ugh, never my favorite because I hate airports and am a nervous flyer. But we found a way to distract me by going into town one last time. Because Apple had just opened an amazing new flagship store and you know that Apple kind of makes us happy. The store was as glorious as anticipated and I loved every bit of the [Weiterlesen]

(Gabi) Our trip was slowly coming to an end (those 3 weeks had flown by) and so it was time to drive back up to San Francisco again. It takes a few hours to get to the big freeways from the national park entrance and so we were treated to yet another scenic drive. I particularly enjoyed the yellow prairie stretching out under the bright [Weiterlesen]

(Gabi) Today was Yosemite national park day and the amount of stunning views was almost overwhelming! The first thing you see when entering Yosemite Valley is this. Just WOW! The valley just goes on and on and the giant waterfall on the right makes the whole landscape look surreal. I was truly speechless and we come from a fairly picturesque country. Breathtakingly beautiful. We went [Weiterlesen]

(Thomas) Today, we’re continuing to Yosemite National Park. Our hotel there is not too far away so there’s time for a little detour. So we take one. I’ve recently read about a train museum on a Back to the Future fan page where the steam locomotive and some carriages from Back to the Future III may be seen. Gabi suggests we go there. Yes, honestly! [Weiterlesen]

(Gabi) Today was our first National Park day. Super exciting for me because I’ve never been to an American national park before. And Thomie had very fond memories from a childhood visit to Sequoia national park. Cool entrance sign. And today’s theme: Awesome gigantic trees. The Sequoia tree really is something else and to be in its presence  is rather humbling. Gorgeous view of the [Weiterlesen]

(Thomas) Today, we’re leaving Los Angeles and head towards Sequoia National Park. But before all of that, we meet Liss, a friend of Gabi. She will show us a gymnasium. Not just some gymnasium, but the very place the ‘Enchantment under the Sea’ dance interior in the Back to the Future films was filmed. As you may remember, we’ve already visited the high school where [Weiterlesen]

(Thomas) We’ve planned something very special for today. Or rather: I have. I’m glad that Gabi supports this – thanks! :-* We’re going to visit a lot of filming locations from my favourite movie of all time, Back to the Future. Yesterday, we already saw the real screen-used DeLorean Time Machine and on Thursday, we drove to the tunnel and the start line to find [Weiterlesen]

(Gabi) Today was an interesting day: Loads of cars and stars (the Walk of Fame kind, no star sighting so far). There’s this super swanky car museum in Los Angeles called Petersen Automotive Museum. We had to go there because they have one of only three film used DeLoreans from Back to the Future. The museum building is super futuristic and quite cool. And there [Weiterlesen]