Wow wow wow.. What more to say.. That was that, we are back, we are happy, and this is the last bloginnlegg..
What more is there to say? We had a blast, we are tired and happy and need to rest and sleep and we are looking forward to see you all again!!! And we are so grateful to have had the opportunity to make this trip.. Already planning the next..
Some have asked about a more philosophical ending, if we found the meaning and all, I don´t know, I´ll leave that one for Kristoffer.
Thank you all for reading:)
Gunhild
lørdag 18. april 2009
New York!! :)
So, Heine was one of Kristoffers seminar teachers at philosophy a long time ago, and he and his girlfriend, Trine, welcomed us to New York with open hearts and a warm livingroom! (Despite the fact that Heine didn´t quite place Kristoffer right in his memory till the last night we were there.. Amazing people!!) The first night at their place we sat up till half past 2, none of us knowing the time, talking:) The next morning they went to school, and K and I went to take over New York (was even my birthday, nice day for that!) Started the day with New York bagels, mmmmm, walk all the way from 30th street to Wall street, saw quite a lot of different districts and sensed the tense feelings at Wall Street. Took the ferry over to Staten Island to see the Statue of Liberty on the way. Took the ferry back, and took even more pictures of Statue of Liberty. Metro to Brooklyn, saw Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Skyline and Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn, beautiful!! Walked Brooklyn Bridge, wow wow wow. Took Metro to Central Grand Station, wow wow wow, walked to Empire Sate Building, was approx 1 1/5 hour queue to get up, so we walked back to Rockefeller Center, paid and went up to 70th floor, and saw the city by night.. Wow wow wow.. Went down again after a few hours, and went to Times Square, to see it by night, amazing. Went home to Heine and Trine, exhausted!
Tuesday we didn´t have quite the same speed, but walked a lot in Greenwich village, Soho, Noho, Meatpacking District and so on. Quite a lot of shopping(spend the rest of our money and a little bit more, or what K?) Tired after mondays walking, tired after Tuesdays walking, we slept very well that night! Wednesday we got up at 8, had bagels for breakfast with Heine and Trine, and then we moved to Harlem, to couchsurf! Stayed with Nathan and Rachel, nice people! Spent the day just me and K, saw most of Central Park, Guggenheim(just the outside, the lobby and the cafè, hehe) and the International Center for Photography, and more of Downtown. Went home to Harlem, Nathan had cooked for us, so we brought New York Cheesecake for dessert, mhmhm! Went to a jazzplace and had a Manhattan on Manhattan, hehehe!
Thursday was our last day in New York, but it was sunny(the rest of the days were not!), so we went back to Central Park to get some sunny pictures, more shopping in Greenwich Village and then we packed our bags and left Harlem and New York and went to JFK. The flight went well, but we didn´t sleep at all, almost, because ther was a personal screen and lot of movies and tvshows, yeah!
Arrived in Dublin(amazingly cold!!!!!!) at 5 in the morning, spent some time at the airport, then went to town, sat in 2 different cafés and slept because of jetlag. Decided to go back to the airport without seeing much of Dublin, next time, to tired, went back to the airport and checked our luggage, ate and flew to Torp, Norway, slept almost the entire way, but saw Hardangervidda with snow from above, Norway is beautiful too, I have to say!!! Arrived on time, immigration and customs was really quick, and then WE WERE BACK!!!!!! Mamma, pappa, Britta, Janjan, Halvard, Marita and Oda Sofie met us, and had made us a picnic in the cafeteria with norwegian milk, brown cheese and knekkebrød, mmmmmmm!!!
Then we left, K to his mothers house, and I to my parents house, and this is so weeeeird, being home, but really great too!!!!!!! PUH!!!!g
Tuesday we didn´t have quite the same speed, but walked a lot in Greenwich village, Soho, Noho, Meatpacking District and so on. Quite a lot of shopping(spend the rest of our money and a little bit more, or what K?) Tired after mondays walking, tired after Tuesdays walking, we slept very well that night! Wednesday we got up at 8, had bagels for breakfast with Heine and Trine, and then we moved to Harlem, to couchsurf! Stayed with Nathan and Rachel, nice people! Spent the day just me and K, saw most of Central Park, Guggenheim(just the outside, the lobby and the cafè, hehe) and the International Center for Photography, and more of Downtown. Went home to Harlem, Nathan had cooked for us, so we brought New York Cheesecake for dessert, mhmhm! Went to a jazzplace and had a Manhattan on Manhattan, hehehe!
Thursday was our last day in New York, but it was sunny(the rest of the days were not!), so we went back to Central Park to get some sunny pictures, more shopping in Greenwich Village and then we packed our bags and left Harlem and New York and went to JFK. The flight went well, but we didn´t sleep at all, almost, because ther was a personal screen and lot of movies and tvshows, yeah!
Arrived in Dublin(amazingly cold!!!!!!) at 5 in the morning, spent some time at the airport, then went to town, sat in 2 different cafés and slept because of jetlag. Decided to go back to the airport without seeing much of Dublin, next time, to tired, went back to the airport and checked our luggage, ate and flew to Torp, Norway, slept almost the entire way, but saw Hardangervidda with snow from above, Norway is beautiful too, I have to say!!! Arrived on time, immigration and customs was really quick, and then WE WERE BACK!!!!!! Mamma, pappa, Britta, Janjan, Halvard, Marita and Oda Sofie met us, and had made us a picnic in the cafeteria with norwegian milk, brown cheese and knekkebrød, mmmmmmm!!!
Then we left, K to his mothers house, and I to my parents house, and this is so weeeeird, being home, but really great too!!!!!!! PUH!!!!g
Washington DC
We flew to New York, landed in the morning, and left quite quickly to go to Washington DC, to visit Taylor for the weekend!!! The bus took long enough, but not much more than 5 hours, and then he picked us up, we went to a restaurant and then had a scenic drive through Washington DCs nicest parts. Saw the skyline(hehe) from the big cathedral and the main shopping street and more. Went home to his parents house, skyped with Ayumi in Japan, and then had to get some sleep. Had big plans about getting up early, but woke up at 9:30, when Taylor came to tell us the time and maybe we wanted to get up.. Hehehe! Went sightseeing after breakfast, saw the White House, Capitol, Washington Monument and Natural History Museum and Air and Space museum, where they had a planetarium, which we definitely need to build in Norway, great stuff! The weather was not so good, so it was great to be in Washington, where almost all the museums are free and very good! :) Cooked dinner(or Taylor and K cooked, I watched..) and made a lot lot lot of popcorn with butter and salt and watched Annie Hall on digital TV:)
Sunday we got up slightly earlier, left to see all the memorials, saw Jefferson, Roosevelt, Second World War, Lincoln and Vietnam War memorials, quite happy with all of that sightseeing in one day!
And all of a sudden the weekend had passed, and we said goodbye to Taylor(again) and cried a bit(again) and took the bus to New York!! Arrived quite late, and was met by Heine, a norwegian philosopher who had said yes to let us sleep in the livingroom for a few nights, but that is a different story!
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Sunday we got up slightly earlier, left to see all the memorials, saw Jefferson, Roosevelt, Second World War, Lincoln and Vietnam War memorials, quite happy with all of that sightseeing in one day!
And all of a sudden the weekend had passed, and we said goodbye to Taylor(again) and cried a bit(again) and took the bus to New York!! Arrived quite late, and was met by Heine, a norwegian philosopher who had said yes to let us sleep in the livingroom for a few nights, but that is a different story!
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Copan Ruinas
I just have to say that I must be the nicest girlfriend, I stayed 7 days in El Salvador doing nothing, just so he could surf all he wanted.. Well, it was not so bad, laying in the hammock and sleeping and reading all day, but I usually get really bored after a while.
I did this time too, so 7 days went just ok, then it was time to move on. We tried to take the lazy way back to Honduras with a direct bus, but couldn´t find the one that left when we wanted, so we took a chickenbus to the border, and then a tuk tuk over the border, then taxi to next town, and then a new bus. Ended up spending a long time on the last bus, so we missed the final bus we needed that day and had to spend a night in La Entrada, don´t do the same, it is not a nice place, and definitely not an exciting place! Hahaha! Was just for one night though, and the next morning we got up early and left for Copan Ruinas, a small town with big Mayan ruins and all. (All Ragnhild said when I asked if we should go there was : Well, if you want to luck at old stones, go ahead!) Went shopping the first day and watched tv, yeah! Next day we saw the ruins, they were amazing, great, and then we got so tired we hardly had energy to see the museum that had all the original stones and carvings, hehe!
Left Copan on Skjærtorsdag, and K got all nervous and sweaty because we hadn´t thought about it being Skjæertorsdag, so there was no buses they told us at the hotel. Turned out there were buses, all we needed, hehe! So we got to San Pedro Sula, ate some pizza at the busstation and left straight for the airport, where we waited 6 hours to fly out, to NEW YORK!!!
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I did this time too, so 7 days went just ok, then it was time to move on. We tried to take the lazy way back to Honduras with a direct bus, but couldn´t find the one that left when we wanted, so we took a chickenbus to the border, and then a tuk tuk over the border, then taxi to next town, and then a new bus. Ended up spending a long time on the last bus, so we missed the final bus we needed that day and had to spend a night in La Entrada, don´t do the same, it is not a nice place, and definitely not an exciting place! Hahaha! Was just for one night though, and the next morning we got up early and left for Copan Ruinas, a small town with big Mayan ruins and all. (All Ragnhild said when I asked if we should go there was : Well, if you want to luck at old stones, go ahead!) Went shopping the first day and watched tv, yeah! Next day we saw the ruins, they were amazing, great, and then we got so tired we hardly had energy to see the museum that had all the original stones and carvings, hehe!
Left Copan on Skjærtorsdag, and K got all nervous and sweaty because we hadn´t thought about it being Skjæertorsdag, so there was no buses they told us at the hotel. Turned out there were buses, all we needed, hehe! So we got to San Pedro Sula, ate some pizza at the busstation and left straight for the airport, where we waited 6 hours to fly out, to NEW YORK!!!
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fredag 3. april 2009
Okey!
Allright, 3 comments convinces me! (I kind of know you all are still reading, haha, but I sat on a scorpion, so I thought that might was enough to get a comment, and now I got 3, I´m happy as ever;)
So, the donkey story, it all happened in Trujillo, but I think maybe I haven´t even told you about Utila? No, I haven´t!
After that sick week in Guatemala and San Pedro Sula, we had 2 good days in Tela, stayed at a great new hostel, with clean rooms and all, and why is that interestin? It is not so many of those, and it was really pleasant, and we felt like we were splurging, but it wasn´t expensive, so it was just a great deal! OK, maybe not so interesting, but it was a wooden house, and I´m so tired of all the cement..
OK, so after Tela, we were a bit in the blue about what to do and where to go, but we decided after some time to join Ragnhild and go to Utila, and island outside La Ceiba on the Caribbean Coast, where Kjersti was kind of waiting for us and hoping that we wouldn´t force her to join us on the mainland again, and I kind of can see why, Utila is a tiny island with ok beaches(have seen better, but is you came straight from Norway they would be more than ok)and lots of good restaurants and hostels, and lots of diving! So we took the boat over there, and surprised Kjersti a lot, and found a nice little hotell, and after that we spent 5 days just eating good food and enjoying good company and nice beaches. The last day we went on a day trip tp the Cayes, a small bunch of tiny tiny tiny islands just outside Utila, I spent the day at the biggest one of the tiniest one, it lives 1000 people out there, in total, and they live on top of each other, it was not room for one more house or one more person, haha, it was full! Did some snorkeling and some sunbathing and then Kristoffer went with the boat to have 2 fun dives!!! He saw giant sea turtles and a lot of fish, and I don´t know, cause I can´t dive, so you have to ask him when we are coming back. But on the way back to Utila in the evening we all saw 4 dolphins from the boat!! Amazing!
The day after we left Utila for Trujillo, further up on the Caribbean Coast on the mainland, so we said goodbye to Ragnhild and Kjersti late that night, and took the boat at 06 in the morning back to La Ceiba, and then onwards with bus for a few hours. We arrived at 12 at a place called Casa Kiwi, outside of Trujillo, a small hostel thing on the beach which Lonely Planet says a lot of good things about, but it turned out the restaurant, the only option for getting a meal, wasn´t that good.. But the thing they have got is a shipwreck, close to the beach, which you can go snorkelling on.. Lonely Planet says it is "easily accessible from the beach", but I think maybe this is a place they have not been to, just written about! Kristoffer managed to swim out there, I guess it was 400 meters, and then you can add the wind and the tides, so on the way back, he really felt it, I didn´t have the guts to try.. The next day we tried to get closer to the wreck on land, but then the beach stops and we walked in rubbish and I don´t know what, it was disgusting, and the water was yellow and smelly and full of slime and algae, so when we reached a point where it was maybe just 200 meters to swim out, then the water was so disgusting that I decided not to do it, not worth it.. Maybe some other time! But this is where the story of the donkey comes:
We were walking along the mainroad that goes along the beach to get as close to the wreck as we could, when all of a sudden that thing that moves towards us is not a donkey and a man or a man on a bike or whatever, it is just a donkey, trotting on alone along the mainroad, nice and gentle on the side of the road, hehe, but when it got closer to us it started screaming, you know, skryte, like donkeys do, and it showed us it´s teeth in a scary way and running towards us, and Kristoffer just lept over the road to the other side, and I followed his example, and then the donkey passed us, but it didn´t attack or anything, it just shut up and followed it´s original plan, whatever that was, and continued along the main road on it´s own. HAHA, WHAT A SIGHT! And then later that day, after we had not swum out to the wreck, but returned to Casa Kiwi and had a swim at that nice beach, clean and all, then all of a sudden a cow comes walking towards us, all alone on the beach!!! HAHAHAHAHA
So we left Casa Kiwi (and are planning to send LP a mail about what it is really like..) We went in to Trujillo, a small town (only 10 000 or something) and saw an old spanish fort and had a great dinner of Conch soup and Lobster soup, mhmhm! The next day we thought of going to El Salvador, but Trujillo was so nice we decided to stay one more day. We went and saw the strangest museum ever, just a giant collection of old stuff, a barn full of items and dust and I don´t know what, but I do know that that museum is perfect for all the men in my family, they know how to see the valuable in old stuff like that, old coins and stamps and chairs and telephones and writingmachines and bombs and even some old Mayan sculptures and so on and so on.. Crazy filled barn.. Outside the barn was a big cage with 4 spidermonkeys in, and althought they looked really bored and that is really sad, it was amazing to come so close to them. Did you know that monkeys hands have the softest fingers, and even fingernails? It was amazing.
And that evening, of all things, a lonely horse comes walking down the street in town, all alone, but definetely with a plan and mission, HAHAHAHA!!!!
So, after more good food and good vibes in Trujillo, we finally left for El Salvador, on the Sunday, caught a bus at 06 in the morning, and changed buses in San Pedro Sula, didn´t get all the way to El Salvador that day, since it was Sunday and less buses, so we had a stopover in Santa Rosa close to the border in Honduras, a nice little town, with a good pizzeria and we even had TV in our room, so I watched Sense and Sensibility, HAHAHAHA!!
On Monday we arrived in El Salvador, spent a few hectic hours in San Salvador, the capital, to try and find the right bus, and finally we left for La Libertad, changed buses again and arrived at Tunco beach in the evening. Found a nice place to stay, with a pool and a good restaurante, and every day since, it is Friday today, so for the last 4 days, I have stayed in the hammock and the pool and Kristoffer is surfing all he can, getting better every day! Yeah! We like El Salvador too:)
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So, the donkey story, it all happened in Trujillo, but I think maybe I haven´t even told you about Utila? No, I haven´t!
After that sick week in Guatemala and San Pedro Sula, we had 2 good days in Tela, stayed at a great new hostel, with clean rooms and all, and why is that interestin? It is not so many of those, and it was really pleasant, and we felt like we were splurging, but it wasn´t expensive, so it was just a great deal! OK, maybe not so interesting, but it was a wooden house, and I´m so tired of all the cement..
OK, so after Tela, we were a bit in the blue about what to do and where to go, but we decided after some time to join Ragnhild and go to Utila, and island outside La Ceiba on the Caribbean Coast, where Kjersti was kind of waiting for us and hoping that we wouldn´t force her to join us on the mainland again, and I kind of can see why, Utila is a tiny island with ok beaches(have seen better, but is you came straight from Norway they would be more than ok)and lots of good restaurants and hostels, and lots of diving! So we took the boat over there, and surprised Kjersti a lot, and found a nice little hotell, and after that we spent 5 days just eating good food and enjoying good company and nice beaches. The last day we went on a day trip tp the Cayes, a small bunch of tiny tiny tiny islands just outside Utila, I spent the day at the biggest one of the tiniest one, it lives 1000 people out there, in total, and they live on top of each other, it was not room for one more house or one more person, haha, it was full! Did some snorkeling and some sunbathing and then Kristoffer went with the boat to have 2 fun dives!!! He saw giant sea turtles and a lot of fish, and I don´t know, cause I can´t dive, so you have to ask him when we are coming back. But on the way back to Utila in the evening we all saw 4 dolphins from the boat!! Amazing!
The day after we left Utila for Trujillo, further up on the Caribbean Coast on the mainland, so we said goodbye to Ragnhild and Kjersti late that night, and took the boat at 06 in the morning back to La Ceiba, and then onwards with bus for a few hours. We arrived at 12 at a place called Casa Kiwi, outside of Trujillo, a small hostel thing on the beach which Lonely Planet says a lot of good things about, but it turned out the restaurant, the only option for getting a meal, wasn´t that good.. But the thing they have got is a shipwreck, close to the beach, which you can go snorkelling on.. Lonely Planet says it is "easily accessible from the beach", but I think maybe this is a place they have not been to, just written about! Kristoffer managed to swim out there, I guess it was 400 meters, and then you can add the wind and the tides, so on the way back, he really felt it, I didn´t have the guts to try.. The next day we tried to get closer to the wreck on land, but then the beach stops and we walked in rubbish and I don´t know what, it was disgusting, and the water was yellow and smelly and full of slime and algae, so when we reached a point where it was maybe just 200 meters to swim out, then the water was so disgusting that I decided not to do it, not worth it.. Maybe some other time! But this is where the story of the donkey comes:
We were walking along the mainroad that goes along the beach to get as close to the wreck as we could, when all of a sudden that thing that moves towards us is not a donkey and a man or a man on a bike or whatever, it is just a donkey, trotting on alone along the mainroad, nice and gentle on the side of the road, hehe, but when it got closer to us it started screaming, you know, skryte, like donkeys do, and it showed us it´s teeth in a scary way and running towards us, and Kristoffer just lept over the road to the other side, and I followed his example, and then the donkey passed us, but it didn´t attack or anything, it just shut up and followed it´s original plan, whatever that was, and continued along the main road on it´s own. HAHA, WHAT A SIGHT! And then later that day, after we had not swum out to the wreck, but returned to Casa Kiwi and had a swim at that nice beach, clean and all, then all of a sudden a cow comes walking towards us, all alone on the beach!!! HAHAHAHAHA
So we left Casa Kiwi (and are planning to send LP a mail about what it is really like..) We went in to Trujillo, a small town (only 10 000 or something) and saw an old spanish fort and had a great dinner of Conch soup and Lobster soup, mhmhm! The next day we thought of going to El Salvador, but Trujillo was so nice we decided to stay one more day. We went and saw the strangest museum ever, just a giant collection of old stuff, a barn full of items and dust and I don´t know what, but I do know that that museum is perfect for all the men in my family, they know how to see the valuable in old stuff like that, old coins and stamps and chairs and telephones and writingmachines and bombs and even some old Mayan sculptures and so on and so on.. Crazy filled barn.. Outside the barn was a big cage with 4 spidermonkeys in, and althought they looked really bored and that is really sad, it was amazing to come so close to them. Did you know that monkeys hands have the softest fingers, and even fingernails? It was amazing.
And that evening, of all things, a lonely horse comes walking down the street in town, all alone, but definetely with a plan and mission, HAHAHAHA!!!!
So, after more good food and good vibes in Trujillo, we finally left for El Salvador, on the Sunday, caught a bus at 06 in the morning, and changed buses in San Pedro Sula, didn´t get all the way to El Salvador that day, since it was Sunday and less buses, so we had a stopover in Santa Rosa close to the border in Honduras, a nice little town, with a good pizzeria and we even had TV in our room, so I watched Sense and Sensibility, HAHAHAHA!!
On Monday we arrived in El Salvador, spent a few hectic hours in San Salvador, the capital, to try and find the right bus, and finally we left for La Libertad, changed buses again and arrived at Tunco beach in the evening. Found a nice place to stay, with a pool and a good restaurante, and every day since, it is Friday today, so for the last 4 days, I have stayed in the hammock and the pool and Kristoffer is surfing all he can, getting better every day! Yeah! We like El Salvador too:)
g
torsdag 2. april 2009
Hm....
Seems to me nobody cares anymore(no comment on the El Mirador trip?????), so I won't tell you a great story about a donkey.. Haha!
onsdag 18. mars 2009
The last days in Guatemala
So, the last week, it is a week today since we came out of the jungle, and we were supposed to have done so much, and what happened? We have been puking and having serious stomachtroubles, so the last week looks like this:
Thursday, left Flores, went to Rio Dulce. Not sick.
Friday, stayed in Rio Dulce to do some very much needed laundry.
Saturday, tried to get to Honduras, only got to the border town, Puerto Barrios, because Ragnhild got sick, spent 3 hours in a McDonalds(she on the toilet..) along the way to Puerto Barrios before we decided to just stay the night, when the night comes Ragnhild is better, but Kristoffer is not feeling well.
Sunday, Gunhild and Kristoffer are staying in bed all day after having spent the entire night on the toilet, no food or water is kept inside the body.. Very sick..
Monday, all 3 of us are feeling better, so we´re crossing the border to Honduras, and going to San Pedro Sula. Finds a hostel, Gunhild stays in bed all evening. Kristoffer and Ragnhild goes to a restaurant to eat dinner. The next morning...
Tuesday, Gunhild is fine, but haven´t eaten in 22 hours, Kristoffer and Ragnhild are so sick, they cannot do anything. Not anything at all..
And today, we´re all feeling better, Ragnhild is still a bit klein, but we managed to get our butts to Tela, which has got a beach, so today we have seen the Caribbean Sea! We´re here!!! Yeah!
Tomorrow we´re not doing anything, but beach.
Why am I telling all this? It has been horrible. It is so much worse to be sick when you´re far away from home, where is gulroetter og knekkebroed when you need it here? NOwhere..
I´m hungry again, and I have spent 2 hours here now, I´m going out!
Have a great not sick time back home!:)
-g
Thursday, left Flores, went to Rio Dulce. Not sick.
Friday, stayed in Rio Dulce to do some very much needed laundry.
Saturday, tried to get to Honduras, only got to the border town, Puerto Barrios, because Ragnhild got sick, spent 3 hours in a McDonalds(she on the toilet..) along the way to Puerto Barrios before we decided to just stay the night, when the night comes Ragnhild is better, but Kristoffer is not feeling well.
Sunday, Gunhild and Kristoffer are staying in bed all day after having spent the entire night on the toilet, no food or water is kept inside the body.. Very sick..
Monday, all 3 of us are feeling better, so we´re crossing the border to Honduras, and going to San Pedro Sula. Finds a hostel, Gunhild stays in bed all evening. Kristoffer and Ragnhild goes to a restaurant to eat dinner. The next morning...
Tuesday, Gunhild is fine, but haven´t eaten in 22 hours, Kristoffer and Ragnhild are so sick, they cannot do anything. Not anything at all..
And today, we´re all feeling better, Ragnhild is still a bit klein, but we managed to get our butts to Tela, which has got a beach, so today we have seen the Caribbean Sea! We´re here!!! Yeah!
Tomorrow we´re not doing anything, but beach.
Why am I telling all this? It has been horrible. It is so much worse to be sick when you´re far away from home, where is gulroetter og knekkebroed when you need it here? NOwhere..
I´m hungry again, and I have spent 2 hours here now, I´m going out!
Have a great not sick time back home!:)
-g
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