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April 2002 Timeline: May 2002 June 2002

Happiest Bernd on Earth
Anaheim, 4 May 2002 		Cab-air NAY so-veen-yohn
Anaheim, 4 May 2002 		Two Moneypits, side by side
Anaheim, 4 May 2002 		Fascism, Disney Style
Anaheim, 4 May 2002
I hope Bernd's kitten, Dr. Tod (Dr. Death) can't see this photo and get jealous....
Disney's California Adventure park is taking a departure from the clean family image and has a vineyard on its ground, full with educational info on winemaking.... Here the different grapes and their spelling are shown... Mare-low and Cab-air NAY so-veen-yohn....
 The Hangar is California Adventure's best attraction, the Condor flight over areas of great beauty in California... Really fantastic.... In the back on the right is Space Mountain and the Matterhorn is to the left... Both of Disneyland....
 A cinema showing a Disney version of the history of California....
Donut World
Anaheim, 4 May 2002 		Give that man a few drinks....
Hollywood, 4 May 2002 		After the Ledge....
Hollywood, 4 May 2002 		Thousand Dishes
Los Angeles, 5 May 2002
Me standing in the 'O' of Calif-O-rnia....
...and he wields a camera around like a madman...
 After we had went againt with Holger to one of the infamous LA clubs that serves booze beyond 2am we headed home.... Only to wake up the next morning with a headache the size of a blue whale. Joe sent me a religious email the next morning with the subject 'Jesus' and the text 'Oh my God!'.
 Korean food in downtown LA....
First Group Photo
Santa Monica, 6 May 2002 		Baywatch
Santa Monica, 6 May 2002 		The old man and the sea
Santa Monica, 6 May 2002 		Sushi and Pizza!
Burbank, 6 May 2002
Inga, Markus, Kerstin, Bernd, Karin and Bernhard.... on Santa Monica's beach....
Pamela Anderson was reincarnated as a seagull.....
 A homeless man on the beach looking at a Seal that was sleeping at the shore....
 By the evening, PW and Vreni arrived.... so we were complete for the trip for the next day.....
Jetlag and Red Wine...
Burbank, 6 May 2002 		Phase 1: JOURNEY
Mojave, 7 May 2002 		Yellow Convertible
Mojave, 7 May 2002 		Pit-stop
Big Pine, 7 May 2002
...do not mix... 10 minutes later Karin was snoring on the floor of my apartment....
A quick stop at Mojave, where I had been half a year earlier.... Grey Spider, Golden Eagle and Pissnelke....
 Inga driving our shrieking yellow Ford Mustang....
 It was boiling hot, yet there were snow-covered mountains in the distance....
Hamburgers in the desert
Big Pine, 7 May 2002 		Nice view....
Big Pine, 7 May 2002 		Deja Vu....
Death Valley, 7 May 2002 		A second later....
Death Valley, 7 May 2002
Stopping at Carl's Junior to grab some hamburgers....
Inga looking back at the mountains as we head east towards the Death Valley....
 Step through the timemachine.... Again, just like last time we mistook what lies behind us as the Death Valley....
 ...a roar went through the air and a fighterjet almost blew us to the ground.... if the camera had gone of then, this is what it would have looked like....
Sand Dunes
Death Valley, 7 May 2002 		Fashion Accessoire
Death Valley, 7 May 2002 		Bye bye Fraenk!
Death Valley, 7 May 2002 		J's 9 at Badwater....
Death Valley, 7 May 2002
Screaming hot....
At first the color of our Mustang was a bit too much of a screaming one... However after a while we realized... It totally fit Bernd and his hair color.... Like an essential fashion accessory....
 10 seconds later we drove on... We wish him well....
 The entire gang.... At Badwater.... That place hasn't changed much in the last 9 years... apart from the sign....
He ran all across the Death Valley!
Death Valley, 7 May 2002 		The fast and the furious
Death Valley, 7 May 2002 		Krusty the Clown
Death Valley, 7 May 2002 		Phase 2: LAS VEGAS
Las Vegas, 8 May 2002
Fraenk reunited with us after being left back at Furnace Creek....
Really great photo of our gang and our vehicles....
 PW at Badwater.... with Makeup on.... His new name is Krusty the Clown....
 After we arrived in Las Vegas and gulped down our food, we sat in the bar and the contrast between our long trip and Vegas decadence was taking its toll.... Even though it was just my birthday I banned the singing at that point.... I wanted to celebrate when we are all happy, fit and fresh....
Cruising the Strip
Las Vegas, 8 May 2002 		Part 1 of the Night: Champagne in the Suite!
Las Vegas, 8 May 2002 		Julian's Nine!
Las Vegas, 8 May 2002 		Julian's Eleven
Las Vegas, 8 May 2002
PW and Vreni in their convertible cruising the Las Vegas Strip..... So now that we were fresh and fit and happy, we could get to the next phase of the trip....
Birthday Boy and Birthday presents....
 So Bernd, Bernhard, Fraenk, Inga, Karin, Kerstin, PW, Verena had taken the Ocean's 11 poster and modified it into a Julian's Nine poster....
The gang was joined by Joe and Janice....
Part 2 of the Night: Dinner at the Bellagio
Las Vegas, 8 May 2002 		Part 3 of the Night: Duelling Pianos
Las Vegas, 8 May 2002 		Part 4 of the Night: Club Ra
Las Vegas, 9 May 2002 		Party Couple
Las Vegas, 9 May 2002
Dinner at Aqua in the Bellagio.... Pfui Gras....
Stopover at the Duelling Piano Bar in New York, New York for some drinks and singing....
 Boozed up we arrived at Club Ra.... ogling at the girls around uns and the ones we brought with us ;-)
 Joe and Janice enjoying their time at Club Ra....
German-Scottish Reach Out Program
Las Vegas, 9 May 2002 		Ein Busserl von da Karin Vegas
Las Vegas, 9 May 2002 		Love is in the air
Las Vegas, 9 May 2002 		I am Thirty!
Las Vegas, 9 May 2002
More dancing and consumption of drinks....
A kiss from Karin.... which was intended for.....
 Well, now we know... Karin's Kiss was intended for her beloved Bernhard.... Nevertheless this is the most terrible photo on this website ;-)
 And drunk....
Party Animals
Las Vegas, 9 May 2002 		Tschuliaen und d'Karin
Las Vegas, 9 May 2002 		Come on, just one more drink
Las Vegas, 9 May 2002 		Nur die Liebe zaehlt....
Las Vegas, 9 May 2002
All still going strong....
Why would I look at the dancers in the background, if I have my Karin by my side....
 So we calmed down after clubbing and hung out at the Luxor bar.... totally oblivious to a couple of strange black women who were trying to make us customers. Joe at his happiest, with the vacation feeling starting to trickle in....
 HUNDERTACHTZIGDOLLAR!
Off to Fiji
Las Vegas, 9 May 2002 		Familienausflug
Boulder City, 9 May 2002 		Phase 3: GRAND CANYON
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		Think Pink
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002
Joe and Janice off to Fiji... On top of the taxi the poster that lured us into Club Ra....
So then we exchanged the convertibles for a minivan and headed on.... Family Dad PW driving us and determining the route....
 While PW and Fraenk had gotten up at 5am and were sweating through the canyon, we had an easy day, lots of sun and stretching out....
 Me wearing Karin's sunglasses....
Inga and Nikon
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		Think Turquoise
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		Rule No.1: Don't feed the animals
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		Xanadu... Xanaduuuu-huuuu-huuuu
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002
After I had seen Inga's amazing photos of India, I lent her my Nikon which I haven't been using since I have gone digital....
Berndi squinting against the sun....
 Vreni our rebel trying to break some rules by making squirrels fat and diabetic...
 At first a surprise.... 10 seconds later we were all singing and screaming along with it....
Bernd, myself and our friend from the little people....
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		Sun, sun, sun.....
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		Colors
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		Picnic at Hanging Rock
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002
Vreni is the size of a chipmunk on this one.....
Us all hanging around, enjoying the sun and our company....
 The amazing colors of the Grand Canyon....
 We found a passage to get up on this remote rock.... Tourists were looking at us from the distance trying to figure out how we got there.... We just rested, had the wind blazing in our faces and enjoyed the view....
Woman of Courage
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		Angsthase
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		Me, on my 50th birthday
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		Indian Decor at Desert View
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002
Vreni letting her legs hang over the abyss...
Well, as you can see, compared to Vreni I am a bit more scared of heights... Or rather that something in me takes over and tries to be Spiderman....
 Not really, but would be cool... Anyway, I was doing quite fine and took a few photos without him realizing... But this biker must have known digital cameras and how you can hold them without looking in the direction.... He actually stuck his tongue out at me after this....
Inside view of the tower at Desert View....
Painted Desert
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		Like a blister in the sun....
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		J's Seven at Desert View
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		J's Seven and the Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002
Scenery as seen from Desert View...
like a lizard, Vreni as seen from the tower at Desert View.... Still no success at tanning....
 Us all at Desert View....
 Just before we were heading out to meet our two lost souls.....
J's 9 Reunited!
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		Watching the sunset
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		Cigarettes
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		Rot-Weiss-Rot
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002
After they headed through the Grand Canyon, PW and Fraenk joined us back up again for a view of the sunset....
Markus looking down on the Grand Canyon where he had been hiking all day....
 No true idea what they were laughing at, but somehow I am sure it was me....
The colors of the first three faces form the Austrian national flag.... Our last dinner together before we split up the fellowship....
American TV
Grand Canyon, 10 May 2002 		Mapping the trail
Grand Canyon, 11 May 2002 		The base of Vick
Vicksburg, 11 May 2002 		Twister
Vicksburg, 11 May 2002
The bar in the hotel was absolutely terrible, so we opted for staying inside, watching TV and drinking beers....
PW trying to map and get his way....
Europeans named Vick from all over the world travel to this place in Arizona to explore their families heritage....
 As we sat there with our chili and burgers, a whizzing noise startled us and 1 second later we were all covered under a few milimeters of sand.... The patronage inside the restaurant must have laughed at us foolish tourists....
The sun sets
Griffith Park, 12 May 2002 		...And LA awakes
Griffith Park, 12 May 2002 		Clear, crisp night sky
Griffith Park, 12 May 2002 		Upside down...
Griffith Park, 12 May 2002
...as seen from my Nikon995 with my new binoculars (present of my parents) attached to the front lens.....
Downtown LA might light up, but it certainly is not getting alive....
 We had to stay still for one second for this self-timed photo....
 Take the starry sky, turn it upside down and you have the lights of LA.... They built the observatory to view stars, but there are no stars you can see in LA... Too much light pollution...
Renoir's faces
Los Angeles, 19 May 2002 		Monet's lilies
Los Angeles, 19 May 2002 		LACMA
Los Angeles, 19 May 2002 		Kandinsky's Compositions
Los Angeles, 19 May 2002
I just love the way how he painted faces.... So beautiful....
Poor monet... at the end of his life, eyesight fading... he painted his Water Lilies day in, day out....
 Inside hall at the Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art....
 Close-up of a Kandinsky composition at the LACMA....
Magritte
Los Angeles, 19 May 2002 		Miro
Los Angeles, 19 May 2002 		Los Angeles Hills
Los Angeles, 19 May 2002 		Sums E3 all up
Los Angeles, 23 May 2002
Next to this painting was his famous 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe'.... But I felt that was overexposed... I was never too impressed with Magritte, mainly because I prefered Dali's imaginations....
As we had one of his paintings - the carnival of the cats - in our living room his paintings were one of the first I'd seen....
 The Hollywood Hills as seen from the LACMA, where I went to fill the void after my friends had left....
 THe E3 expo in LA summed up in one picture.... Two guys staring at the whipping polygon boobs of their all-girl team that they control in a Beach-volleyball game....
Fraenk at Topanga
Topanga, 25 May 2002 		Kerstin at Topanga State Canyon Park
Topanga, 25 May 2002 		No worries, it's just an empty sleeping bag...
Burbank, 26 May 2002 		Crowded House
Burbank, 26 May 2002
Took Fraenk and Kerstin to a hike at Topanga....
Kerstin (Fraenk's just-ex-girlfriend) at Eagle Rock....
 Markus, having two more hours to sleep....
 Four people in my living room.... plus all my gadgets... little space to move....
Rise and Shine
Burbank, 26 May 2002 		First two are leaving....
Burbank, 26 May 2002 		Finishing the last postcards
Burbank, 26 May 2002 		And the last ones leave....
Burbank, 26 May 2002
Karin and Kerstin getting up at 2am, ready for their drive to the airport and the long flight home....
Markus and Kerstin are leaving in the middle of the night....
Karin writing some postcards at 2:30am in the morning...
 The Car leaving are Karin and Bernhard heading for the airport at 3am....
Another night out
Pasadena, 27 May 2002
In a very, very bad nightclub in Pasadena....
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