Chicago here I come!
I have arrived at my last destination, Chicago. The plans for today is already made up. I will be going to the National Vietnam Veterans art museum to pay my respects to those who lost their life in the Vietnam war.
This time I decided not to go with a guide and a group through the museum because of what happened last time. So this time I walked around and looked at all the amazing things that was used in the war and that still amazingly well preserved. An interesting fact about museums, when I think about it. The USA have much more museums than Sweden does. It is only natural because the US is so much of a bigger country than Sweden is and they have served much more in war than we have.
This blog entrie will be a short one because im longing to go home and meet my family. They have been writing to me allot since I left. Just because I´m longing to get home does not mean that I will miss the US. It have been an amazing trip and I would gladly do it again.
The day ended with me sitting in a restaurant eating with a friend, a friend that was with me on the trip from Los Angeles to Flagstaff. Me and Zac will surely miss each other. Zac had gone from Flaggstaf to Chicago just to say goodbye to me and that ment allot to me. As it started to get dark we said our last farwell and the next thing I knew it I was on a plane on my way home to Sweden, the country that I had missed allot. My family is waiting for me at the airport and is eagerly waiting to hug me.
It has been a pleasure to write to you all!
André Dahlvig out!
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Art is art
Hello everyone!
The road have led me to my next destination. Today I will be staying in St Louis. I heard that St Louis have some beautiful art that I really want to check out.
I arrive in St Louis when the clock strikes 2 in the afternoon. I have made small savings for my last trip but today I feel like going to a restaurant that serves buffet because I´m quite hungry after the long trip on the road.
The sun is shining when I arrive at the restaurant and as I walk in to the restaurant two policemen walk past me with a man between them. The man doesn´t seem to struggle at all. One of the policemen looks at me because I look interested and wonder what I´m thinking. I said that the man doesn´t seem to struggle at all. The police laugh a bit and asks me if I was joking. We used our tazer and looked at me as if that was very obvious. The police in America seem to be more violent than the police in Sweden. In Sweden the police try to talk to the person they want to arrest and see if he/she is willing to go without a struggle. But as I see it, the police in America just "goes for it".
After I left the restaurant I checked in at a hotel that was a 3 star hotel, wich was perfect for me because I needed to save some of the money for my last trip to Chicago. The room was very well decorated and it even had a toilet and shower in the same apartment. Not that I´m not used to it but it felt like I lived somewhere now. As you probably remembered I slept in my car the last time.
I decided to check out the art in St Louis that was placed out all over the parks in the city. When I arrived there was a group of tourist that also was there to see the art. After about 10 minutes our guide arrived and she told us her name and then we started to walk through the park. I must tell you that this art was different from any art I had seen before. It didn´t really represent anything (what art does these days?) but something about it made it beautiful and exciting to watch. Art is an inspiring thing all over the world and we have different taste in art but one thing that you can say about art all over the world is that there is always a group of people that cant imagine thing in their head. Why do I bring this up? There was this really annoying couple that always said "what is that suposed to look like?". I was so irritated by this so I just said "IT IS ART" and then walked away. I know it wasn´t nice to scream that out but things happens.
I headed back to the nice cosy hotelroom and slept through the night to wake up with breakfast beside my bed. Time to get some rest before my last trip to Chicago, see you there!
The road have led me to my next destination. Today I will be staying in St Louis. I heard that St Louis have some beautiful art that I really want to check out.
I arrive in St Louis when the clock strikes 2 in the afternoon. I have made small savings for my last trip but today I feel like going to a restaurant that serves buffet because I´m quite hungry after the long trip on the road.
The sun is shining when I arrive at the restaurant and as I walk in to the restaurant two policemen walk past me with a man between them. The man doesn´t seem to struggle at all. One of the policemen looks at me because I look interested and wonder what I´m thinking. I said that the man doesn´t seem to struggle at all. The police laugh a bit and asks me if I was joking. We used our tazer and looked at me as if that was very obvious. The police in America seem to be more violent than the police in Sweden. In Sweden the police try to talk to the person they want to arrest and see if he/she is willing to go without a struggle. But as I see it, the police in America just "goes for it".
After I left the restaurant I checked in at a hotel that was a 3 star hotel, wich was perfect for me because I needed to save some of the money for my last trip to Chicago. The room was very well decorated and it even had a toilet and shower in the same apartment. Not that I´m not used to it but it felt like I lived somewhere now. As you probably remembered I slept in my car the last time.
I decided to check out the art in St Louis that was placed out all over the parks in the city. When I arrived there was a group of tourist that also was there to see the art. After about 10 minutes our guide arrived and she told us her name and then we started to walk through the park. I must tell you that this art was different from any art I had seen before. It didn´t really represent anything (what art does these days?) but something about it made it beautiful and exciting to watch. Art is an inspiring thing all over the world and we have different taste in art but one thing that you can say about art all over the world is that there is always a group of people that cant imagine thing in their head. Why do I bring this up? There was this really annoying couple that always said "what is that suposed to look like?". I was so irritated by this so I just said "IT IS ART" and then walked away. I know it wasn´t nice to scream that out but things happens.
I headed back to the nice cosy hotelroom and slept through the night to wake up with breakfast beside my bed. Time to get some rest before my last trip to Chicago, see you there!
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The lifter
My plan for the following days were: Drive many many miles until I get to the city of Amarillo. I will not stay in Amarillo. I will continue to the city of Oklahoma where hopefully I can find a cheap hotel to get some beauty sleep. I hope that I will find something to do before I check in to the hotel.
I set of from Alberquerque to Oklahoma city about an hour ago and im almost at the city of Amarillo where Im hoping to find a gas station to fill my fueltank.
I did find a gas station to fill my tank and now I am ready to continue to Oklahoma. The scorching sun kept making me open my window on the car all of the time because it was so hot. On the way to Oklahoma city a funny thing happened, a lifter, on the road wanted a ride. I asked her where she was going and she said that she were going to Oklahoma city yo visit the Oklahoma city zoo. That sounded like a fun thing to do and I was thinking of doing the same. Some facts about lifters. In Sweden we do not have many lifters. But in America there is much more lifters. Why? Well it is quite simple, Sweden is a smal county compared to America and that makes it easier to travel between cities. But in America people travel between big cities and in America, big cities are a long distance from eachother and as a result people for an example run out of fuel and decide to lift.
We arrived in Oklahoma where the heat still was hanging on. I dropped of the nice lady at the zoo and then I checked in at a two star hotel because I could not afford anything that costs more. But after I dropped of my thing in the room that I rented in I went out to the car again and drove back to the zoo to check out the animals. I have not been to a zoo since I was 14 years old so I was quite excited.
I can say that this was one of the best day of the roadtrip. Of course I met up with the lady that I gave a lift to the zoo. I found out that her name was Lisa. I was suspected something but I was not totally sure if I was going to ask her the question. But I did anyway. Are you from Sweden, I asked. She looked at me as if I could see through her. Yes, she said in Swedish. Well it ended up with Lisa and me talking for a moment and then we parted. I went back to the hotel to get some sleep for my next move to St. Louis.
This is a photo i took at the zoo.
I set of from Alberquerque to Oklahoma city about an hour ago and im almost at the city of Amarillo where Im hoping to find a gas station to fill my fueltank.
I did find a gas station to fill my tank and now I am ready to continue to Oklahoma. The scorching sun kept making me open my window on the car all of the time because it was so hot. On the way to Oklahoma city a funny thing happened, a lifter, on the road wanted a ride. I asked her where she was going and she said that she were going to Oklahoma city yo visit the Oklahoma city zoo. That sounded like a fun thing to do and I was thinking of doing the same. Some facts about lifters. In Sweden we do not have many lifters. But in America there is much more lifters. Why? Well it is quite simple, Sweden is a smal county compared to America and that makes it easier to travel between cities. But in America people travel between big cities and in America, big cities are a long distance from eachother and as a result people for an example run out of fuel and decide to lift.
We arrived in Oklahoma where the heat still was hanging on. I dropped of the nice lady at the zoo and then I checked in at a two star hotel because I could not afford anything that costs more. But after I dropped of my thing in the room that I rented in I went out to the car again and drove back to the zoo to check out the animals. I have not been to a zoo since I was 14 years old so I was quite excited.
I can say that this was one of the best day of the roadtrip. Of course I met up with the lady that I gave a lift to the zoo. I found out that her name was Lisa. I was suspected something but I was not totally sure if I was going to ask her the question. But I did anyway. Are you from Sweden, I asked. She looked at me as if I could see through her. Yes, she said in Swedish. Well it ended up with Lisa and me talking for a moment and then we parted. I went back to the hotel to get some sleep for my next move to St. Louis.
This is a photo i took at the zoo.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Concerning animal treatment
Ok I have made smal plans for my next location. I spent a lot of money on the hotel in Flagstaff so this time Im planing on sleeping in my car. I know it is not safe but you do what you have to do when you need to save some money. My next destination will be Albuquerque, "the long city" in New Mexico.
The day started out with some food from a steakhouse. The food was pretty cheap, only 2$ for one big steak some bread and sallad. There is not much that you can say about the similarities between Sweden and USA except that we have McDonalds, Burger king and TGI Fridays as similar food chains.
The something happened that really touched my inner feelings. When I was on my way to the car I saw something on the ground, it was a dog and it was alive but hurt. I went over to pick it up so I could take it to the animal hospital. I should not say that Americans care less for animals that we do but surely we are a cuntry that cares alot for animals.
When I arived at the animal hospital I take a queue ticket and sit down. The man beside me looks at the dog and asked me how it got hurt. I said that I found it on the
street and that it probably had got hit by a car. "Oh" he said with this voice that sounded like it was not that bad.
I asked him why he did´nt react so stong on the subject. Well, he said, My wife is a vet and she one time had this goose
that had lost one of its wings. My wife said that it was quite disturbing and that she wanted to put the goose down. She also said that it would cost alot to give it medicine so that it could live on. But the owner of the goose said that what ever it would cost she wanted the goose to live. The woman payed for the medecine and in the next few weeks the goose was fine. What a nice story, I said. The queue ticket I took said "number 48" and it was currently number 47. Well the next one is me, I said and thanked the man for the chat and walked past the desk to turn in the injured dog. When I walked out from the vet I feelt very pleased with myself because I was thinking that I had saved a life today.
There was not much more to do today and I could not take in to a hotel because I spent much of the money on the Flagstaff hotel. I decided to find a trailer/car park where I could park my car and sleep the night.
This is the trailerpark that I will park my car and sleep the night. Its not much but it will have to do.
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The day started out with some food from a steakhouse. The food was pretty cheap, only 2$ for one big steak some bread and sallad. There is not much that you can say about the similarities between Sweden and USA except that we have McDonalds, Burger king and TGI Fridays as similar food chains.
The something happened that really touched my inner feelings. When I was on my way to the car I saw something on the ground, it was a dog and it was alive but hurt. I went over to pick it up so I could take it to the animal hospital. I should not say that Americans care less for animals that we do but surely we are a cuntry that cares alot for animals.
When I arived at the animal hospital I take a queue ticket and sit down. The man beside me looks at the dog and asked me how it got hurt. I said that I found it on the
street and that it probably had got hit by a car. "Oh" he said with this voice that sounded like it was not that bad.
I asked him why he did´nt react so stong on the subject. Well, he said, My wife is a vet and she one time had this goose
that had lost one of its wings. My wife said that it was quite disturbing and that she wanted to put the goose down. She also said that it would cost alot to give it medicine so that it could live on. But the owner of the goose said that what ever it would cost she wanted the goose to live. The woman payed for the medecine and in the next few weeks the goose was fine. What a nice story, I said. The queue ticket I took said "number 48" and it was currently number 47. Well the next one is me, I said and thanked the man for the chat and walked past the desk to turn in the injured dog. When I walked out from the vet I feelt very pleased with myself because I was thinking that I had saved a life today.
There was not much more to do today and I could not take in to a hotel because I spent much of the money on the Flagstaff hotel. I decided to find a trailer/car park where I could park my car and sleep the night.
This is the trailerpark that I will park my car and sleep the night. Its not much but it will have to do.
Some rights reserved by camknowsFriday, February 1, 2013
The lava river cave
The past 4-5 days was amazing, not only the trip to flagstaf but also what I/we did in flagstaff was just amazing. Do you wonder why I said we? well I´ll get to that.
So I am sitting in the car on my way to Flagstaff and all of the sudden my phone starts to vibrate. I pick it up and on the screen I see that it is the Skype app that is saying that a person is calling. I answer the phone and with suprize i shout out "Zaaac". It was my friend Zac that lives in Phoenix, south of Flagstaff. He said that on the Skype menu it says that I am in Arizona. Well enough about the call, we decided to meet in Flagstaff, where luckily I was heading and probably was going to stay in for 3-5 days.
So me and Zac ended up sitting in a sushi bar and eating and talking about... well about everything I guess since it was the first time I had to get to see him in person. A funny fact about some Americans is that they like to meet in person instead of sitting in front of the computer and talking on Facebook like we do. This is a photo of the sushi bar that we ate in.
So I am sitting in the car on my way to Flagstaff and all of the sudden my phone starts to vibrate. I pick it up and on the screen I see that it is the Skype app that is saying that a person is calling. I answer the phone and with suprize i shout out "Zaaac". It was my friend Zac that lives in Phoenix, south of Flagstaff. He said that on the Skype menu it says that I am in Arizona. Well enough about the call, we decided to meet in Flagstaff, where luckily I was heading and probably was going to stay in for 3-5 days.
So me and Zac ended up sitting in a sushi bar and eating and talking about... well about everything I guess since it was the first time I had to get to see him in person. A funny fact about some Americans is that they like to meet in person instead of sitting in front of the computer and talking on Facebook like we do. This is a photo of the sushi bar that we ate in.
Me and Zac decided that we wanted to do something so we did! Zac knew of this old cave that tourists go to, It was an old volcano that had formed a tubelike form. Most volcanos that is not active are in most cases sealed because the lava turned to stone and covered the entrance. But this one had not been sealed. The cave was formed 700 000 years ago wich some think is just magnificent, so do I. The cave lies 4-5 miles north-west of Flagstaff wich is a perfect opportunity. The tourists had been advised to enter the cave with som thick clothes because it is quite cool down there. This was just great for my long trip to Flagstaff had been so hot and I needed a cooldown. The cave is approximately 1 mile long, in other words 1,2 kilometers long. There is still ice hanging from the caves celing. But why? Well because the cave was formed 700 000 ears ago there was many other volcanos active and if all of them erupted the skies would be covered in ash wich would make the temperature go down rapidly and form ice in the cave. This is a photo that I took inside the cave, quite magnificent
This had been a great day, I met up with Zac, we ate at a sushi bar, and last but deffinently not least the lava river cave that was just an amazing thing to experience. But it is four hours from midnight and I am really tiered.
So I have departed from Zac to go find a nice hotel to stay in for 3-4 nights. I am a little afraid to sleep in a hotel in America because there is so much more things (negative) going on in America than Sweden, but this is a thing that I have to get used to. I think I´ll be allright. I am hoping for some new fun things to do when I get up tomorrow. But for now I really need to rest. By the way this is my hotel room, yes it was kinda expensive but it costs 126$ for 1 night. It was the best I could find and it has a swimingpool!
Have a nice day!
Thursday, January 24, 2013
My first blog post
So here my road trip on route 66 begins. I will start by taking the highwayroad 10 to Flagstaff where I will fill my tank with gasoline. If I encounter any problems I will not worry because I am used to solving things. I am hoping for some nice weather so that I will have a pleasant ride while I get closer and closer to my destination. I also hope to learn new things that I not yet have known about the cities that I am to travel through.
I have calculated what the prize of the fuel will be and it will be very cheap, 3.8$ per day and a total cost of 133$ for the whole trip.
This roadtrip is not just about driving to your destination because you can, it is about learning stuff and appriciate the surroundings that you have. And the most important thing is to learn to relax and not feeling any pressure.
I have calculated what the prize of the fuel will be and it will be very cheap, 3.8$ per day and a total cost of 133$ for the whole trip.
This roadtrip is not just about driving to your destination because you can, it is about learning stuff and appriciate the surroundings that you have. And the most important thing is to learn to relax and not feeling any pressure.
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