happy birthday

They got me again, I did, poor me, I bought an ipod-touch, AGAIN. Pray with me that this time I will bring it back home!

Mei, what a good day, for a walk outside

Right now I'm standing at a trainstation in Nagoya and waiting for the couchsurfer to pick me up! See you soon Tokyo. David

I am Johnny Cash and I wanna fuck you like an animal

Karaoke!! Finally, I have been to one of the famous karaoke bars in Tokyo, and it was GREAT!

So, this new couchsurfer, Wade from Canada, who have also stayed with Steve from New Jersey, asked me if I would like to go with him and his friends to this karaoke bar and of course I said yes. Cool thing is, you kind of rent a room in that bar, so your just on your own, and everthing you drink is included, something like "koma-saufen". After on of my quickest beers I have ever drank it was my turn to sing something. And I sang, "Its my life" by everybody knows "Bon Jovi" and I was horrible, really, if Bon Jovi was dead, he would turn around in his grave. Next song for me, "Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song", by the way the dumbest song to sing for karakoe, and two duetts "Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues" and "Nine Inch Nails - Closer" (which was quite intense as you can imagine).
I also wanted to sing "Rock me Amadeus - Falco" but there was not enough time. Too bad. Well, it was great fun and when I am back in Austria we have to go to one of those karaoke bars!!!
I am feeling like Bill Murray, David

In Tokyo driving should be called stopping

So, i wake up the next morning, at about 3pm. I read something, I ate the best rae salmon I have ever had, get my stuff organized, I simply relaxed. At about 12pm the couchsurfer came home from his work and asked if I would liked to join him, he rented this car, wanted to pick up this girl and he wanted to show me this incredible nightview of Tokyo. Though I have already been in bed and I was fairly tired, I decided to come with him.
Sounds all great, but, BUT we never saw the nightview, because when we came to this place it was already 5 am and the sun was already shining. He said something about this buddha statue (which actually is quite impressive) we have to see and again I thought okay cool, should not take too long.

I was mistaken.. at 14 pm after a night spent in a car with a chinese japanse couchsurfer and a english teacher from florida, I was finally able to fell again deadlike into my bed... a bed not exatcly, it was again the floor.

Day 3

I bin so fertig. bin grad 20 stunden duch tokio gelaufen, hab echte japanisch kalte nudeln gegessen, a chinesin, 2 mexikanerinnen, 1 mexikaner kennengelernt, bin von huren, von ladyboys angmocht worden, bin fast von am riesen großen schwarzen in an gentlemens club vazaht worden, hob nu ungefähr siebentausend tonnen fisch und 12 millionen japaner gsehn. dazu hob i gechillt und viel zu leichtes überteuertes bier getrunken. ich werd jetzt kurz mal sterben gehen. Baba, D.

Endlich

So, I`m going to start from the beginning.
There is one thing that`s really funny everytime I`m flying away... showing my passport. It`s everwhere the same, the securities on the borders are just laughing out loud, sometimes followed by a nice "hihi, what happend to you?? hihi" and finally waving me through into their country.
So, I`m finally in Japan, at Narita Airport, here I come, nobody can stop me! Nobody? There`s　somone, something. The ATM (for those who don`t know: Bankomat) First I tried my luck at an only japanese machine, then I wasn`t able to find out how, or in wich direction I have to put my bankomatkarte into that thing. When I finally was able to get some cash out of the machine, I withdrawed the crazy amout of 1,4 euros (2000 Yen). After that, my Bankomatkarte wouldn`t give me any more money, because I`ve already taken to much of my account. After that I decided to stick to my creditcard. With finally 100,000 yen (70 euro) in my pocket, I bought a chai tea latte, and a new york cheesecakesomething (at starbucks, mhhhhh) and I was on my way into the city, to the Tokyo station. Oh yes, after I bought, that chai tea I realised 100,000 yen aren`t 70 euros, but 700 euros (I felt, and still feel, quite uncomfortable with so much money in my pockets)
So, Mr. Liftinger David is now in Tokyo. "puhh, what do I need? Sleep!" Unfortunately, I had to wait about 10 hours to meet up with my couchsurfer. So I decided to just go into a park and take a nap. Sadly, this park I was going to, was the imperial park, right in front of the imperial palace. Nobody was allowed to sit on the grass, not to mention sleeping on that grass. Lots of police man and securities made sure that no one even touched that grass. So I had to look for another park, happily I found one, right next to the imperial palace, with some shogun statue in the middle. So I finally could lay down, and took a nap (with some crazy dreams).

So I wake up again, totally confused where I am (oh yes, tokyo) and decide to get something to eat. So I walked around in that area and had to find out, that the menus in restaurantes are only written in japanese, no english at all. After walking around like a strayed dog, i finally got to some japanese sandwich thing and just pointed with my finger at something delicious, gave the cashier some money and swallowed that thing as fast as possible, like Andi would do. That was sooo good.
After spending the day near the Tokyo station and the imperial palace, I was on my way to the Tokyo tower.

There I met up with my, living and working in Japan, french couchsurfer, Louis. A huge, really nice, 2 meters guy. We went to his apartment (relly tiny) and I could finally take a shower and just fell deadlike into my bed. (not really a bed, it was more like... yes, the floor, but it was great and I slept like a king!!)

Gott verdammt!

I simple can't find time to write a blog entry.. and I hate this japanese keyboard. Hopefully I'll find some time today in the evening.

I'm not a communist, David

bin da!

After a 14 hours flight and 10 hours waiting to meet the couchsurfer, finally I`m here! In Tokyo... I`m just too tired write anything. I`ll tell you more tomorrow.

Bye, the japanese don`t understand a single word I`m saying. David

I'm off.

So, bin grad noch in good old... ähh, germany. Nach einer Nacht in der ich geprügelt und meiner Decke beraubt wurde, werde ich mich jetzt auf den Weg machen, und dann gehts ab nach Tokyo. So, see you there guys. Dav....id

Tokyo

Yes, it's true. Finally! I'm going to Tokyo. With whom do I travel? Just by myself.

Flight Details:
->
30 Jun. 11:50 Munich - 30 Jun. 13:30 Amsterdam
30 Jun. 15:20 Amsterdam - 01 Jul 09:45 Tokyo

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20 Jul. 11:30 Tokyo - 20 Jul. 16:20 Amsterdam
20 Jul. 18:15 Amsterdam - 20 Jul. 19:45 Munich


That's a map of the subway system in Tokyo...

Well, see you soon. :-)
Konichiwa. David, is happy.

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