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yohan4ws
04-07-2005, 02:30 PM
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Day1 :: Thursday March 24

Drove to seattle, went through the mountains .. found Canada's probably only west side toll road exempt ferries .. $10 dollars yikes.. whipped down about 170km (105mph) chasin a GTI who had more balls than me to take those curves .. meh.

Got to Seattle and found my hostel after going through customs .. beer was 1 dollar each in a 24 case, like $25 no gst no deposite .. hurray for Canadian beer!

In seattle found my hostel, checked in .. the place seemed pretty shady, guys all telling me to keep NOTHING visible in your car because things always get broken into dont walk down such and such an alley (which was right outside the doors of the hosteL) .. I'm in my car checking in and chatting with Hien sayin what a sketchy place this is all paranoid of my car and 2 black guys walk up .. stop .. 2 steps back and stay there, one gives me kinda a corner look .. im like great, they know i got laptop, heres a car gonna be parked prolly all night.. fabulous .. im ready to leave seattle and call it ghetto town even though I had paid my hostel ... well, the guys stayed around smoking a joint and turns out they were cool, I chatted w/ them about seattle vs canada, asked their suggestion on clubs for a white boy from up north and then I checked the night life .. lots of homeless people, crackers and people heatin up spoons everywhere downtown seattle .. double decker highways (something ive never seen) and the harbor. clubs were the same .. I wake up early the next day with an uneventful night and hit the higway.

Oh yes, doris was inflated in the front seat most the day including crossing customs but i packed her later to not draw attention to the car while it was parked.

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Day 2 :: Friday Mar 25

I was thinking I'd be able to make Klamath hostel in so cali ..I didnt, the coast line was amazing, I stopped everywhere to take pictures. washington is ugly and boring, even the ocean wasn't exciting .. but it was the ocean!! HURRAY! I drove straight on this one road to see if i could see the ocean i drove up this little bit of a sand hill and wham .. there was the great pacific in all her glory .. I had a moment took pics of my car at the beach .. awesome .. I'm on the west coast.

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All along the west coast is incredible in oregon .. fabulous.

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I missed the Sea Lion caves earlier in the day which I really wanted to see so I camped north of Coos bay to make the trip back up the coast and then backtrack .. I saw the sea lion caves, it was cool but not 8 dollars worth .. I found out later down the bay was FREE places to see them up close.

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I made it to coos bay and partied there the night, talked with these guys who were pretty young outside of Wendys where i had my dinner .. apparantly the "best restaurant" in the area for seafood didnt want to serve me in a timely fashion in the pub ... waitress never came near so i just left. Wendys it was .. I find out that at any gas station in seattle downtown theres import meets pretty much, thats too bad I found about it so late. Blah blah blah about imports, some guy there has a boosted h22 4gen that blew a big block built camaro off the line .. everybody was shocked and im like yea theres a couple those in my city .. fast cars once they grip .. went to a bar, didnt find any axion but got an exposure to the nightlife in Coos bay ... its a bit of a grungy town but had an all right dance club .. for a friday night.

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Day 3:: Saturday.

Sea lion caves. meh .. Though it rained all day and packing my tent sucked I still saw some more amazing shoreline ..

I didnt really have a destination, Just klamath where I thought i'd check the hostel the night before .. I couldnt find the hostel so found an RV campground south of Crescent City by klamath. This is just through the redwood forest on highway 101, huge trees.. holy crap.. and hella fun to drive through, even late at night..

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I partied in Crescent City that night, met some people and was out til the bars closed .. danced it up. People wished Doris and I the best for the trip. Just when I thought I was going to sleep at 2:30 -3am 2 girls I met from the first bar I went to showed up at my campsite .. one was quite cute but unfortunately and ironically married. Obviously I was shocked that I had been stalked but it turned out ok.

They took me back to crescent city and showed me the town, I hopped fence at som ewildilfe sanctuary where they nurse injured sea lions and such . I pet a seal . .woo! Saw sea lions up close, did a night time tour of crescent city, hopped on a fishing boat and saw some crab traps. There was some place I was told I needed to see paul bunyon and his big ox's big blue balls .. low and behold I got a picture of myself (the girls too) holding bunyuns blue ox's big blue balls.

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After that was g'nites.

Day 4 :: I made it to San Fran. The coast line gets better the further south you go and keeps getting better. The highway 101 is the way to go. I got turned off of highway #1 somehow after I drove through the chandalier tree.

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I ended up in Anderson Valley, even ppl in san fran didnt know where it was .. it was the best wrong turn I ever made. Unfortunately I didnt get near enough pictures to show how magnificent the landscape was through here. Everything is so green and lush, vineyards, orchads and rolling hills between mountains. wow.

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Checked into my hostel in san fran after getting a couple good night shots of the cityscape of San Francisco.

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Proyecto2000
04-07-2005, 02:33 PM
aawsome pics :thumbsup:

yohan4ws
04-07-2005, 02:34 PM
Day 5-6 :: Monday March 28 - Tuesday March 29 - San Francisco

I wake up in the hostel and had my waffles and orange juice at the hostel. I went outside to find it was somewhat raining, .. frikkin great, 2days of rain wasnt enough .. now I know California rain. Luckily it cleared up so I went down thinkin I'd get to alcatraz but went the wrong way to Pier 41 drive or something of the like, my first exposure to San Francisco in the daylight.

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The tour to alcatraz was booked so this is as close as I got

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To my suprise I could get closer free pictures of the sea lions ... frikin sea lion caves.

and of course, the 3 of us under the golden gate bridge.

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Doris, Lee (a guy I met at the hostel) and I all went to Castro to hang out with the locals http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid163/p86dc384a482fa2b7709a6ab946964bd7/f48f7dd2.jpg

I took a couple really stellar sunset shots of the GGB ..

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Of course when I saw this I just knew I had to goto the bar and have at least a beer in Larry Flynt's Hustler Strip Club. I was fortunate enough to find some lady company to go with. Later that night I went to Larry Flynt's, asked the lady situation bouncer claimed that it wasn't the place to go to get laid or meet chicks. I went to a place called Fuse and met a couple girls, they were both really cool and very nice. They opted to goto Larry Flynt's with me after Fuse. The look on the bouncers face was priceless! This out of town Canuck showing up with 2 girls to the peelers ... My ego was flyin high.

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We had met this other girl earlier that said that all the locals go to this place on Haight street and they'd be belly dancing at this club called 'Nickies'. I stayed there Tuesday night to check this out and the night turned out to be a flop. It was all east indian people there dancing to east indian music ... I really wasn't feeling the vibe and nobody there caught my eye so I pub hopped to Noc Noc's, tried some of the other local beers and finished off at some night club I didnt get the name of.

I woke up early the next day and I was off to .. well, I didnt know where but somewhere south of where I was at.

Deetz
04-07-2005, 02:35 PM
Some great pics. The trees down there are amazing.

7thgenvic
04-07-2005, 02:36 PM
wheres the boobies! GOD





jk

shakalaka
04-07-2005, 02:37 PM
Nice one man!! I feel like going on a trip like that now. Awesome pics

yohan4ws
04-07-2005, 02:38 PM
Day 7 : Wednesday March 30.

Disapointed with last night I was hoping to goto Santa Barbara and maybe check the party scene there, luckily somebody else told me about Venice Beach a bit off of Santa Monica. Told me it was a great party town .. there I went ..

It was a beautiful day to be driving down highway #1. The coast line gets more beautiful the farther south you go ..

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Some trained squirrels mildly entertained me:

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But none so much as the Sea Lions that I walked up to on the beach. I hear its against the law to be within 15 feet of these, and petting them lays up a hefty fine - some these pictures got me a bit of trouble from the wildlife official at the beach.

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I stopped in Morrow Bay and bought a t-shirt, really great little town. I love the relaxed feeling of all these places in California. It's so chill down there, everybody takes life in stride ... its an awesome calming energy.

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The sun was setting as I drove on towards Santa Monica so I took some silhouette photos:

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After that it got dark so I trekked on and ended up at Venice Beach. The hostel I stayed in was a total dive but when I woke up it was allll worth it.

[b]Day 8 :: Thursday March 31[b]

About the girls here.. well.. I'm sure most have seen ATM girl ..

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The beach was also great.

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I met some guy, Sean Davison from the LA Clippers, he introduced himself to me just like that - to which I replied I'm Andrew from Canada ... "What?!" .. Hi I'm Andrew. cool to meet you, then we went and hit on these 4 girls who I thought may have been too forward to ask for the photo .. I asked one of the girls so what he plays college ball? She's like no, NBA ... im like huh how about that .. the girls all left so I called up Brian who offered to give me a place to crash in costa mesa ... Off to the next place on the map!

We went to Huntington Beach for dinner, Beer and Pizza .. awesome, Brian drove which was a nice break for me. It's wierd being passenger side in a Prelude. We took off in his roommates lazer to a game place that night, arcades billiards, air hockey .. tickets to buy different things, a grown up chuck-e-cheeze but it closed about an hour after we got there ..

Day 9 :: Friday April 1

Brian took me to the beach the next day .. damn. Better than venice!
Who likes Volleyball?!?!?

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bikini bikini bikini bikini bikini bikini bikini bikini bikini bikini bikini bikini bikini bikini bikini ..err ahem ..

Yea the beach was great, I did some body boarding and we threw the football around some. Pacific ocean sure isn't all too warm this time of year but what do I care, I'm Canadian!

We went and checked out Laguna beach at a place called inspiration point for some more sunset pics ..

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We met up with Hein later on and then hit the bar ... where I shamefully displayed no game, but got a free beer from some dude for taking a picture of him and some chick .. hurray for free beer! -- Amstel light gets my Canadian thumbs up! :bigthumb: Thanks Hein for being the DD that night!

After that we played poker til 5am .. I was sporting my In-N-Out burger hat that I got after having my first in n out meal. Rawk!

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yohan4ws
04-07-2005, 02:38 PM
Day 10 :: Friday April 2

Checked out the Ferrari dealership today and took it easy after a late night....
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Sunset photos at Newport beach weren't as great and we were pressed for time but still not too shabby.

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Day 11 :: Sunday April 3

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Met some SoCal Preluders .. rawk! Tyler, Robin, Hein, Brian and I all went to see Sin City. They serve beer in the foodcourts, wow! $2.65/bottle of beer! Awesome .. I purchased a nipple thermometer and tried my game on some cali girls, couple were insulted the 3rd invited me out to the bar with her and her friends that night ... unfortunately I was leaving to vegas that night. But not before a bit of a Prelude meet , Introduction of Doris and a small photo shoot ::

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Day 11 :: April 4 2005.

I arrive in Vegas at 3:00AM and started taking pictures at night .. some turned out great.

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I woke up after getting a few hours sleep at Traveloge, took a souvenier pic of Doris and then I drove home.

I got searched at customs, they emptied my whole car ... went through everything read all my notes and stuff.. like.. why read my notebooks ?? "Welcome home, hope you had a great trip .. now stand over there while we make you feel like you are smuggling stuff".

Thing is, Customs USA searched the trunk liner of my car .. they didnt even remove a panel of anything ... what a PITA. best part, I had to repack my vehicle. Horrible. The best is watching another vehicle drive right on through without even a 2nd glance... I shouted at them through the 2 way mirror "How is that fair ?? You suck!"

They didnt even cavity search doris nor let me have a picture of them doing it like I wanted... party poopers.

Day 14 :: Wednesday April 6.

And so I came home some hours later. and here I sit ... in my work cubicle with dreams of the west coast, socal, the friends I met, the good times had, and the memories made that will be never forgotten.

A huge thanks goes out to Brian for his hospitality and showing me the town and setting up my first Honda Prelude meet in SoCal. He's gotta come party it up in Canada in the summer time and check out the lake lifestyle and the weekly clubs that get PACKED here .. DO IT!

Kirbs17
04-07-2005, 05:26 PM
Damn man, looks like you had one hell of a time... :thumbsup: great pics

Kobe
04-07-2005, 05:40 PM
yah.. i wanna go now :(

Vegas pics look sweet.. Good read..


I think im going to have to hit up cali now..

rmk
04-07-2005, 05:57 PM
:thumbsup: excellent pics and an even better story!!!!!! ahhh california girls ;) nice to look at but most aren't worth yer time. glad to see you made it home safe!

Chester
04-07-2005, 06:01 PM
sweet man. You went by yourself?

yohan4ws
04-07-2005, 06:04 PM
No I didnt go by myself... I had my dear ol' Doris!.

I have some more pics yet .. these are just a few, I took 1100 in total I'll post up my imagestations and beach pictures yet (yes, you know what I mean by beach photo's)

Hash_man
04-07-2005, 06:49 PM
Looks like a super fun trip... i definately want to go to cali this summer.

Could just be my comp... but probably like 50% of the photos arent showing up, a few more change when i refresh, try another host, imagestation sucks.

yohan4ws
04-07-2005, 06:51 PM
** If Pics dont show up, right click / show picture on the red X (a couple-few times if need be) **

All the rest are here :: http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=2128475177&mode=invite

GQBalla
04-07-2005, 10:29 PM
looks like you had a good trip juss wondering why do you keep sayin hostel? are you tryin to say hotel or what ?

yohan4ws
04-07-2005, 10:39 PM
A hostel is a place to stay when you're by yourself. 25bucks per night. Basically they give you a bed, a locker, and continental breakfast. The bed is in a room with 4 other bunk beds for a total of 8 people, sometimes less sometimes more. Hence the locker to lock up your stuff with yor own padlock. I paid 25/night to stay everywhere I went .. beats 50+bux for a hotel.

As well a lot of single travellers stay in the open lounges so you can meet people (sometimes hot chicks too if your lucky). They have free wireless internet and a big kitchen everybody can share with couple stoves, fridges for everybody and storage for food silverware etc.

It's where I met my friend Lee from San Francisco, he and I took Doris out in Castro.

JordanLotoski
04-07-2005, 10:46 PM
what the hell is this? where are the ladies man?


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:rofl:

and if u did meet some ladies i sure hope there not these gurls hahaha
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anyways awesome pics man.

yohan4ws
04-07-2005, 10:53 PM
^^ hahah .. how'd that pic get in there??? .. there must be hot girls around there somewhere ...

nah man, cali girls aren't really into tourists, they see em all the time.. place to go for axion would be Vegas or Mexico especially .. or anywhere at spring break.

I dont care, I went for the scenary and a good time.

And I definately got that! :thumbsup:

chris
04-07-2005, 10:55 PM
took pretty much the same road trip in the summer, they had a storm off the coast so there were 8 footers all day at huntington, it was crazy. Huntington beach/newport are two of my favourite places in the world. Gotta love the california beach towns.

GQBalla
04-07-2005, 11:02 PM
ohh i see
kinda good for people that are on a budget

ecstasy_civic
04-07-2005, 11:15 PM
Man that looks wicked, I think I have my holidays booked for summer lol

Out of all the places you visited, where was the nicest, and where did you have the most fun??

Seanith
04-08-2005, 12:21 AM
Looks like image station isnt' working right now. I'll have to check it later!

hyperwhite
04-08-2005, 08:53 AM
damn thats looks like you had one hell of a trip. now i really wanna go on vacation

ecstasy_civic
04-10-2005, 02:58 PM
i forgot all in all what did it cost you?

yohan4ws
04-11-2005, 10:02 AM
How much did it cost?

Not really sure, I guestimate about $1200 CDN that includes all gas, hotels, food, & spending cash. That also includes the $40 admission to the rave I went to in Los Angelos. I really wish I brought my camera to that ... the outfits people were wearing were pretty outrageous.

Think about it though, 2 weeks inclusive with spending cash for $1200cdn ? Would have been another $75 - $100 US if I stayed in a Hostel when I got to SoCal for those 3 nights.

The drive back sucks but I highly recommend this trip to anybody, even if you're going alone - heck I'll lend you Doris.

240droptop
04-12-2005, 07:20 PM
pics look great I bet it was an awsome trip

yohan4ws
04-13-2005, 01:29 PM
Ok ... I want to exceed 1100 hits so im gonna post up some beach photo's ..

copy location and open in new window, add .orig.jpg to the end of the filename for the BIG picture you can zoom on.

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ill post link to imagestation album later.

Lo)2enz0
04-13-2005, 11:25 PM
wow, i envy you. mainly because my car wouldn't make it past washington ha ha ha

but great pic's and it looks like you had a good time.

sillyd
04-14-2005, 10:01 AM
Sounds like an awesome trip! I'm sooo should have gone. Anyone want to go for a drive next month?

Kobe
04-16-2005, 07:17 PM
Dose it rain alot in Cali, i want to take a trip down there in Octoberish


Also, did you find any cali based forums?

d-UNiT
04-16-2005, 07:47 PM
awesome read, im playing on doing a roadtrip with a couple buddies to seattle this summer, do you recommend it.?

yohan4ws
04-17-2005, 03:47 PM
Seattles a dive man. I wouldnt recommend it.

Goto Cannon Beach. Highly recommended.

Great party town, awesome beach. and from what I hear .. girls girls girls girls girls.

Need to know anymore? (just bring bug spray - and lots of it)


Originally posted by d-UNiT
awesome read, im playing on doing a roadtrip with a couple buddies to seattle this summer, do you recommend it.?