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