last knight in the big apple

tomorrow 8 pm flight check out couchsurfing.com/profiles/batcave see you soon thanks a lot

i am Beowulf!

frisco.

san francisco is a really really nice city. though i think the hippy/punk movement ended up not so good for the city. since if you walk down all those crazy shop streets, people ask you for money everywhere. extremely messed up people trying to sell months old chocolate for 2 bucks... and so on. i really wanna come back here someday, during summertime, and when i have more enery left. i'm starting to get really sick of travelling. not haveing a "home" isn't the most pleasant thing after all. but hey, it's been great! 6 days left.



the day before yesterday, we went to see a drag show. half naked, gay men. more than naked, gay men. it was amazingly beautiful. and david got hit on twice. after that we went to a chinese private party. which was also really amusing. i tried to play one of those guitar heroe concole games. which didn't work out at all.

not all chinese people turn purple, if they drink.
italians aren't as nice and charming here than there.
vegan lasagna is awefull.
my toenails are way to long.
and burning snails isn't as much fun as it was when i was little.

xoxo. agnes.

Snooooooooooow....

...not in Los Angeles!!!


Los Angeles was great. We saw three concerts (Enan, Architecture in Helsinki, Kill Me Tomorrow) stayed in Long Beach, Silver Lake and San Bernadino, which is 100 Miles away from the city, what we simply didn't know, so we were somehow stuck there, and we bought lots of stuff (DVD's, CD's, Vinyl's, a Watch, a hat, pajamas). So when I'm back "home" (if a homeless guy can say that) I want to make a movie-night-of-dvds-i-bought-in-the-united-states in my new pajamas.

1.46! That's the conversion right know. Isn't that awesome. If anybody wants me to buy something, just tell me. For example, if you wanna buy a 2000 $ NASA-pillow it would cost you only 1400 euros.

By the way, we are right now on our way to San Francisco (it will take us about 7 hours). See you there.

People think I'm from Australia, I am not. David

Bright, brighter, Las Vegas

After an 4 hours flight and 1 sleepingbag less, we arrived in shiny Las Vegas. Immediatly after arrival I tried my luck at the automats directly located at the airport. I gambled with unbelievable 1 dollar, won 25 cents, but I couldn't stop, so i kept on gambling and lost everything!! That happend three times through the 2 days we stayed there.



I would say Las Vegas is only fun if your flithy rich and it's your bachelor party. You can spend incredibly much money, just for nothing.
Also nice is that, there is no problem for anybody who is younger then 21. In general you can gamble, if you wanna buy alcohol you don't have to show your ID, you just have to say how old you are.

Vegas was nice to see, but living or staying there longer than 1 night would be useless.

Viva La David

Washington D.C.

First of all, we were really lucky with our couchsurfers in Washington. We met 3 really nice guys. So what did we see, as I told you before a lot of sights (Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, White House, Capitol...) and some museums, great about that, every museum is for free. We´ve been in the Air and Space Museum, the Indian Musuem (which was not even the free entry worth), the National Gallery and the Natural History Museum. Besides all that touristy stuff we saw little massmurders (because of halloween) and drag queens (and no not because of halloween). It was the traditional every year drag queen race.

I have to go now, we´re on the jump to LAS VEGAS.

Captain Morgan, David

Las Los San

On the 1st of November we're going to Las Vegas. We'll stay there for 2 nights, then we'll keep on going to Los Angeles. Stay there until the 10th and go on to San Francisco, to fly back to New York on the 21st (i think).
Between Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Francisco we'll take the Megabus (10 $ each ride and person). Not bad for 440 km and 620 km.

Zero tolerance towards time-wasting, David

Weird

That´s the subway here in Washington, isn´t that awesome?!


A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.


Captian Kirk on the Rocks


DoSomethingAmazing.com

By the way, yesterday we watched a free hockey game (got the tickets from our Couchsurfer), Washington Capitals vs. Tampa Bay Lightings, was pretty cool. Washington won.

With great power, comes great responsibility. David

Jon Mortensen Bush

Two days ago we saw Bon Jovi (he is getting old), watched Eastern Promisses (WATCH THAT MOVIE, just do it), yesterday we went by Chinatownbus for 20 $ each to Washington, today we saw the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Capitol, the White House and the air and space museum.

I am tired, David

Update

Just a quick update: We got back from Puerto Rico on the 18th, finally saw a CocoRosie concert (including Jim Jarmusch) on the 19th and going by bus to Washington DC on the 21st.

Busy, busy, Lifti

Captured in paradise

Back from Vieques and moved to another Couchsurfer. The island was really nice, we stayed on a beach, which was reserved just for us. We climb over rocks from one beach to another until we found our prefered one. We stayed for one night until we realized the flood did come and we were trapped on the beach. Luckily in the afternoon the water got back again, so we could get away from that beach.


If you wanna do something once, do it twice and it still doesn't work, it's Puerto Rico. David

mosquito island.

from tomorrow on we'll be sleeping on an unexplored beach somewhere on an island in front of puerto rico. god knows how we'll survive it (see title). but it sure will be interesting.

Puerto Rico.

coqui! i just heard them for the first time, though it was hard for me to make their birdlike sound out through david's auuuuuu's and ahhhhhh's, because of the mosquitoes. i think they will eat us alive. first language is spanish, but everybody's really really nice and helpful. in new york and chicago they had squirrels running around on every street corner, always just hiding behind the tree trunks when you approached them. here in puerto rico, they have all sorts of tiny lizards, doing the exact same thing. it is really humid and hot here. it's doesn't really cool off at night, either. and i asked for some other cities, and directions, and everything seems to be just 15 minutes away. it was a great thing to come here.

love, agnes.

Lil Girl "Cosmic Willingness" Pipe Dreamz A Revelation

So yesterday we got up at 4 am in Chicago to miss our flight to New York at 7:25 am. Yes, that sucks. Some emergency on the subway cost us 45 valuable minutes. But, we got an stand-by flight, at 9:20.
Finally arriving in New York at 3:10 with our bags searched again (they must love backpackers) we went by taxi directly into the city, to go with the Path train to New Jersey, to Jerome (a guy we stayed before). After a quick shower, we're on our way to Deitch Projects Gallery to see CocoRosie. After ten minutes of waiting we're able to go inside, to see the exhibition of Bianca Casady (actually one from the two girls of CocoRosie). Somehow nice, VERY strange and my opinion solidified, that art is only masturbation (that doesn't mean it's bad, it's just masturbation). We saw strange people, CocoRosie, gay people, dancing people, but what we didn't see, was a show. Yes, they didn't play a show.
But still... it was definitely worth it, was an awkward experience.



So finally back in NY, we went to Christopher Str. and everybody who knows the Christopher Str. Parade, knows what to expect.

We are leaving for Puerto Rico tomorrow morning, hopefully we won't miss the flight this time.

The death of Mad Vicky Lopez, David

Go Cups Go/We'll miss you

Yesterday we joined Adrian and some of his friends supporting the Chicago Cups. Since 99 years they've been not so good. But still, baseball is the most boring game in the world. It sucks. It's over 4 hours and you see fat people standing, waiting, doing nothing. Baseball is just a huge stupid excuse to drink beer. We drank Oldstyle, the official Cups beer, tasted like Gambrinous only with more water. Hey and don't forget, it's light beer ;). Isn't that awesome.
But the night was great, it was really really funny. We had a great time.
Tomorrow we'll get up at 4:00 to catch our flight back to NY. We'll fly from Chicago Midway over Atlanta to NY LaGuardia. Check that out on the map, it's crazy.

Last day in Chicago... well we're going to miss you. We got to know new friends and lost of nice people. So long dudes, hopefully we'll see you in Austria one day.

handle with care, David

me again

The weekend at the farm was awesome!!! We drank home made "letskillyourself" wine with an family big as 300 people. Crazy, man. One of our couchsurfer hosts took some pictures, so you'll see them the next days, stories will also follow. Right now, Agnes is buying an 160 GB iPod. Plans also changed, the New Yorker Festival was canceled, but still we're going back to NY. Instead of the Festival we're going to go to an FREE CocoRosie concert, yeahh. After that, we're up to Puerto Rico for nearly three weeks (not Toronto as we thought before). Kind of stupid thing is, in Puerto Rico right now is hurricane season. Today we've been up to the "highest" building of the world. The was pretty awesome, it took us only 60 seconds to get up to the 110th floor.

"Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Ieatmyp" "Ieatmyp, who?" (think about it) David

it's britney, bitch

Yihhaa... take a picture with your mobile, print it with a shitty printer, and your have it: POLAROID, and it's awesome. I bought a cam yesterday and i love it.


We've also been to the millennium park, there you can find lots of awesome art.
What do you do, if your and bad ass deer hunter, but your too lazy to actually hunt something. There can only be one answer, deer cocaine. You just get the deers addicted to that stuff. When you finally wanna shot something the deers come running towards you to get more of it.

damn delicious, david

Gotham City

The new Batman is being shot here in Chicago. They turned the post office into the Gotham City police department. So Agnes is hoping to see Heath Ledger, The Joker.



Well, yesterday we had the first time problems getting into a club, because of Agnes not being 21. Well, sucks somehow, but it's ok.
Our couchsurfing hosts a pretty cool, they invited us to a wedding. It's one of those original american "redneck" weddings, on a farm. If you want to shoot a deer and spend time in nature, you can go to that farm. So I'm looking forward to thtat. Lots of eating and lots of drinking with an original "unique" big white family.

Nerd

Ich mechat in Martin recht herzlich dazu gratulieren das er in WCIII auf 350 RANDOM victorys gekommen ist.

Martin, SUPER!

Chicago Chicago Chicago

Yes it's true finally Chicago. After a 2 hour flight, the city of Al Capone, Jazz and the biggest tower in the USA. Yesterday we got drunk and today we're going to meet Ralph (the guy from Jai Alai Savant).

See ya, Daviddddd

spider bjork, spider bjork, does whatever a spider bjork does.

we got up, watched braveheart. and went to a BJORK concert!

it was so perfectly amazing. so many special effects, like lasers, snow, spiderwebs out of bjorks fingers*, fire...
she played all the good new songs and some of the most amazing older one. she even gave oceania (which she hadn't played a single time since the olympics) to the best.
i love her so much.

here a video.

it's not from yesterday, but from coachella last year.

anyways, agnes.

noah's ark.

we've been to the amazing bronx zoo today. it's huge!



highlights were the tigers, you could have touched because there were so close (hadn't there been that glaswindow).
thousands of little crazy monkeys.
the "world of darkness" where they had all sorts of night animals, like huge bats, crawling around.
and the bison.
i loved it there.

pictures.

krist is back from venice and she brought some awsome pictures with her.



check it out.

xoxo.

.

we didn't do anything.

Captain Baseball

Yersterday we've been to the movies. Watched Mr. Woodcock, Billy Bob Thorton at it's best, but in fact just an oridnary love-fun comedy made in Hollywood.



Jersey city itself is quite boring.
At night there was a big fight in front of our "apartment", including a big mexican guy beating a chinese guy, with an baseball bat from an black guy. In the middle a woman screaming like joe when he sees a girl. It ended with 4 police and 2 ambulance cars.
I also ate an 5$ burger, that wasn't worth it, and we wanted to go to the Bronx Zoo today, but it is raining.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Lifti

Back to Black

Heyhey, there we're again, in the city, not really, just in Hoboken. But still, were back. Yesterday we got to know Christina and Jerome, two friends of Anthony. They were really nice, two photographers. They've been always traveling around in the world. Jerome for example spent 2 and a half years just traveling through Asia. They told us some nice tricks to travel cheaper, further, ... when we succefully tried one of those things, we'll let you know.

Today's Jersey City on the plan.

ca, David

P.S.: Bud Light is like drinking from a (warm) puddle of mud

transportation.

friedrich asked how we get from one place to the other. in new york we use the metro system, that means subway, and buses for 74 dollars monthly. most couchsurfers so far lived inside the city so it was no problem getting there. to new jersey we took the PATH train (a train system through new jersey). and orville picket us up by car.

we will fly to chicago and back, the same for canada. and will take chinatown buses to washington.

chinatown buses are cheap buses that take you from one chinatown to another. i think to chicago it's around 35 dollars there and back again.

i hope that answers your question, friedrich.

i'm glad you came back savely.

xoxo.
agnes.

ludu. luda. loser!

we spent the whole day sitting around, reading, eating (just like at home). david didn't feel too well, so we didn't go to german class. instead we found a nice jamaican boardgame called ludu. it's like a mix between mensch aergere dich nicht and malefitz. we played it with four people (orville and his sister)'till we were overcome by fatigue.

love. agnes.

Plans

So, plans for the next weeks. On the 25th of September, after the Bjork concert on the 24th, we're going to Chicago, stay at Ralphs place (the guy from "The Jai Alai Savant") for 14 days. Come back to New York on the 5th, to go to the New Yorker Festival on the 6th. After that, we're thinking of going to Carly's place, also a former couchsurfer of us, up to Toronto.

I am Liftinger David, you killed my father, prepare to die!

"Das Fenster ist schmutzig"

Yersterday, I finally realized, we're in the Garden State, YESS! We also saw the William Paterson University were Orvielle used to go (In Austria he told us his second name, Anthony just beacause nobody could really pronounce his first name, Orvielle). A huge university with erverything you need, football field, tennis courts, swimming pool, basketball fields, ... At night we joined Orvielle at his germanclass. So we sitting in an original american class, where 20 grown ups, all speak together:"Der Tisch ist neu." This was really nice.

Inconceivable, David

Jamacia here we are

The next days we're going to stat with our couchsurfing friend Anthony (bron in Jamacia). He stayed with us in the Kapuzinerstrasse for 2 nights. So we're right now in a small town in New Jersey. Greetings from Anthony to Joe (the Captain) and Gregor (Trixie).

Sorry, for the short messages, but the last days internet was short. Right now I'm typing this with a 56k dial-up.

As you wish, Lifti

Wos kost die welt?!

Just one word: Butternbutternbuttern

ca, david

Catfight

hey there, our new place is pretty nice, though our host reminds me dangerously on the crazy catlady from los simpsons. Last night one of their cats first tried to scratch my eyes out and suffocate me, in sleep. Just before the cat tried to kill Agnes. 

But, well THIS IS SPARTA! (*keuch* couchsurfing)

See you soon, Agnes and David!

Hey! ho! let's go!

Yes, that's what happend, we met goose. Imagine the dirtiest corner in whole new york city, there we met him. We were walking down the street to a couchsurfer party, and met drunken goose with 4 other austrians, just standing there. I was like: "Klaus, Ganser Klaus" and he looked at me like a drunken ninja, and didn't move. After seconds of just standing still, he realized that I am me, and I finally ralized that it is him. So we invited them to join that party (10 dollar + drink as much as you can). It is sooo crazy, 10 million people, and we meet on some dirty corner.



At the party we said, let's meet on Monday at 12 on the Brooklyn Bridge. That's what we did, they came from Manhattan, we from Brooklyn. So we 7, standing in the middlle of the Bridge, and it starts to rain. The first time here, and we can't go hide anywhere. So what I wrote Agnes and I did on Monday, we didn't do alone, but with all of them. When we saw that girl under the bridge jumping up and down, we did the same. Jumping up and down.

Running away into you! So true. David

P.S.: Today we're changing again, to Lisa Something, but we're coming back to Steve on Monday.

That's was happend on Saturday

Yes we did it, survived September of 11th, but no, we took no pictures, sorry alex. I didn't feel too comfortable with it. We didn't even go to ground zero, there would have been so much security, searching your backpacks, and whatever... In fact, the whole remembering thing, was on every of those 400 tv channels, and I'm sure so it was in Austria. One cool thing we saw was the two blue lights, symbolizing the two towers.

Yesterday we also met the mother of our hosts, 92 years old, and still fresh as an green banana. She's surfing the internet and did already host a couchsurfer.

By the way today's the day of change the couchsurfer, today we move to New Jersey. To, Steve Byrne. Tell you about that later.

So long David

The day before yesterday, the next day, we did some touristy stuff. We finally went to the Time Square and wow... this is the REAL bling bling. Everywhere you look at, everything you see, all is enlighten. It's ridiculous! Even the sign for the NYC Police Department is blinking. If you are an epileptic, hey that's the place to be.


We also went to the biggest shopping center in NY, to Macy's. But that's kind of stupid. You can buy everything and nothing. I don't know, a bit strange.

Before that got in the first rain in New York, sadly we were in the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge, so it was hardly possible not getting really wet. So we went to Grimaldi's the best place you can buy pizza in whole New York, whatever. We've also been to the DUMBO park again, and there we saw a photo shot of Lacoste. A beautiful long legged, blond woman jumping up and down on a trampoline, in a very short dress. Looked pretty funny.

Elvis has left the building, Lifti

There is STRONG, and there is ARMY STRONG.

Hey there, after that strange Saturday, at Sunday we slept till 3pm and stayed home the whole day. At night we got invited by our hosts to a great meal at the Vietnamese. So during the day we watched television and got nearly seduced to join the Army. And we read a lot. During the stay in New York I found an awesome author, Kurt Vonnegut. He is truly amazing, read 2 books of him and his first novel "Slaughterhouse Five or The Children's Crusade" is just great. Has everything from 2nd World War to Alien sci-fi.

Join the Army, David

P.S.: Support our troops out there! (Check it out on youtube)

Poooooahhh

Yesterday happened such a crazy, super duper, terrific, awesome and kind of scary thing. But I can't tell you.

ca David

RePop

Yesterday it was the first time we got to knew a bit of New York nightlife. The week before we got invited to an exhibition of two artists, including free snacks, free red and white wine and of course free beer. So we went there and had a couple of drinks, and before we went home we sat in a park and watched the Manhattan skyline at night. It was pretty nice. Good thing of New York's number 1 transportation system is, it runs 24 hours a days.

See ya, D a v i d

Lower Manhattan

Hey there, it's me again. Yesterday we just walked around in Lower Manhattan with our heads up to the sky. I have to admit these skyscrapers are really really high. We saw the American Express Tower, Woolworth Building, ... and so on. We also took another look at Ground Zero. Well it is not so impressive just a huge building ground.


So, see you on the other side, David

france sucks. but paris swallows.

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