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This is what you look like if you board the flight to early in the morning... |
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This is what you SHOULD look like... |
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It's gonna be a looong trip with lots of lay-overs. |
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Hey, I had a seat right next to the window. yay! |
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The interior design of the plane needed some improvements. |
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Ready for Take-Off! |
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Frankfurt. They have tunnels under the runways, you know? |
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Waiting in line... And waiting... And waiting... |
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This plane was supposed to fly us over the Atlantic. |
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And it did. Even after sooo many people boarded it. |
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This is the coast of Germany. Or Great Britain. Or Greenland... Dunno. |
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A mid-air snack. |
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Finally... Over Canada the clouds kinda disappeard. But can you tell the difference? |
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Not really... |
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This is the Hudson Bay. |
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An american quilt... Farm! Sorry! |
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The first thing I heard when I left the plane was "Ey Baby. Don't be like this." |
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Two engineers and a plane. |
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No photographs allowed. Awwww... |
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Denver airport. So big. So little time... |
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"This way?!"- "No. That way!" |
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Las Vegas. See what all the fuzz is about! |
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Welcome to the New York New York! |
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My Motel room. |
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Goooood morning! |
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My room was on the first floor, but this view was much nicer... |
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Beware of the klingon |
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This is Quark's bar. |
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Star Trek themed, of course. |
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The motto of the trade fair was "Pimp my Ride", I guess... |
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Or maybe "Find a weird place for your monitors" |
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The world's largest 102" Plasma TV |
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The world's largest 103" Plasma TV |
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The gold course behind the Wynn. |
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A typical american car. |
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I got a haircut that day! Before... |
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... and after. |
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Esther did a great job, didn't she? |
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The excalibur. |
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A vending machine for iPods. |
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xmRadio |
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Another Best Western. There are 7 in Las Vegas! |
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Oh my god... |
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A room full of porn actors next to a room full of engineers... Great! |
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This is a projector. Can you believe it? |
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This one as well. |
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It smelled like chloride... |
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Inside the Venetian. |
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INSIDE the Venetian. |
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Inside the VENETIAN. |
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Inside the Wynn. |
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Oh, and the top-most photographed sign in whole Las Vegas. |
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Me in front of the Luxor. |
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Somebody else in front of the luxor. |
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This would be the point where I usually wake up... |
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I must have taken the wrong turn somewhere. |
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Yum... Slurpee! |
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Beware of the pharaos. |
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Palm-trees in their natural habitat. |
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Quite funny, don't you think? |
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Beware of the cat! |
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I had a slurpee that day. Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Pepsi. |
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Yuuuuuuummy! |
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The show in front of the Treasure Island. |
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Where smoke is, there was A LOT OF fire. |
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Back in Paris. |
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Because the first Slurpee was so great I had another one. With banana flavor. Yuck... |
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Luncheon at the conference. |
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Raw meat. |
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Dinner AND a show. I really is Vegas! |
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Every speaker got this nifty gadget. The lamp I mean. |
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The presentation were given in rooms like this. |
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On screens like this. |
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Me in front of the Luxor again. |
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Luckily I am not his dentist. |
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Like I said |
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Come here! |
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The room I gave my presentation in. |
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A bird. |
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My session. |
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And she won a the grand prize at the other luncheon. |
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Beck's. |
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Acceleration. |
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A sunset over the desert. |
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Entering Arizona. |
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Hoover Damn |
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Overflow control. |
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Damn that's high. |
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Power! |
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Looking over the state border. |
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Those ones are growing high! |
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The swedish are conquering the world. |
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Our hotel room in Tuscon, Arizona. |
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The same one in the morning. |
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The hotel in Tuscon, Arizona. |
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The famous(?) O.K. corrall. |
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Wild wild west. |
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Welcome to a tombstone. |
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Tombstone used to be a miner's town. |
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Miner's used to be small. |
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I'm just trying to blend in. |
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Some people shot by an Earp. |
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Some other people had one hell of a party. |
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So much for the death penalty. |
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Biiiiiiiig surprise. |
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A typical american graveyard. |
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Leaving Las Vegas. |
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"Art" |
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Yeah, our plane was late. |
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Joanne! I met her on it. Somewhere between Las Vegas and San Francisco. |
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"Sunny" California. |
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Now we are on holiday. |
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Florida was the sunshine state, right? |
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You need that sort of car with the hills of San Francisco. |
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We took a car with a Sirius radio this time. |
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And entering San Fracisco. |
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Colorful houses, eh?! |
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Hills, hills, hills. |
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And cable cars. |
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They are slow. |
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Veeery slow. |
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*Yawn* Is it over now? |
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Alcatraz. This used to be Al Capone's residence once. |
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Lombard street. Probably the only street in America with curves. |
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The others are sooooo straight. |
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Lombard street. Looking down. |
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Looking up. |
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A first glimpse of the Golden Gate bridge. |
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This can be understood in two different ways. |
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Pier 39. San Francisco. |
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The one with all the sea lions. |
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And the tourists. |
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And the sea gulls. |
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Looks like something is crawling out of my soup. |
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Parking on an airfield for sea gulls is kinda dangerous... |
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... you see? |
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The other side of the bridge. |
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And San Francisco. |
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The City where all the houses are slanted. |
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190 expensive ways to store your dust. |
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Including an authentic chinese last supper. |
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Lastest fashion. |
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Entering Chinatown. |
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Chinatown for tourists. |
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10 Mark. |
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The window alone is worth a fortune. |
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Chinese restrooms. |
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This really is a strange city... |
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Leaving Chinatown. |
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Could somebody PLEASE tell me what this means? |
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Yuck. Diet, cherry AND vanilla. |
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St. Pauli!!!! |
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Driving over a red bridge. |
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I wonder if it's really working or just a backdrop for the tourists. |
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Hold it right there!! |
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That's what I call one hell of a cable. |
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In which movie was this house so important? |
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This really feels like the land of the free. |
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Yeah, I know, I photographed it quite often. |
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But... Yay! I'm standing in front of it!! |
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Muir woods. |
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There are biiiiiiig trees there. |
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And biiiiig bears. |
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Squishy the blowfish. God rests his soul... |
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Silicon Valley. And Altera. |
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nVidia Headquarters. Or something. |
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Very intel-ligent. |
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Yeah, I am always wearing that when I design chips. |
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This is where microchips are born in. |
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Look how shiny pure silicon is. |
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Fuck You Moore! |
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Intel inside. |
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A time capsule. With the old logo still on it. |
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Oh! Look! A photo location! |
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The power of intel. |
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Ten years ago we had to toss our junk secretly in the woods. Now we got ebay. |
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This thing told me that I am "naughty but nice". Works for me! |
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Golden Gate... You know... The red bridge. |
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Oh yeah! I was in California!! |
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How romantic... |
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It says "Fire line." not police... |
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But cars on the sidewalk where in fact allowed. |
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Our room in San Francisco. |
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San Francisco by night. |
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Sotp! |
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More slanted houses. |
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We went to the cable car museum. |
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Welcome to it. |
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It is a museum. |
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It works completly mechanic. |
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What? You want to see my ticket? |
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Clear instructions about boarding a cable car. |
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0 carbs, 0 sugar... |
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...0 alcohol... |
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We climbed the highest mountains. |
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Just to have a view over the bay bridge. |
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And the Golden Gate Bridge... again... |
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What's with the rainbow? |
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Come on in, stay a while... |
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Last exit before entering San Quentin. |
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This guy must be an agent! |
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High thread condition at the airport. |
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Logging out of the states. |
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Up up and away. |
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$HOME sweet $HOME. |
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I need to get a better spam filter... |
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Those are aaaaaall the souvenirs I brought back home. |