Roadtrip part 2 Phoenix- Grand Canyon

After leaving this:



..we headed to the north towards the Grand Canyon.
On the way there we stopped a couple of times to take photos. But sometimes I had to try to snap some as we were driving.







This is a necklace that I bought in Camp Verde. Marke didn't know how to appreciate my deep thinking: which one to take. But the most of them were too nice. Luckily I finally decided and ended up buying only one.


One bigger stop before Grand Canyon was Flagstaff. It was very cute little town, right on the world-famous Route66.





When we finally reached Grand Canyon, it wasn't too easy to find our own camping spot. We totally assumed that it will be like a tent-village and the cars need to be parked further away. But no, everyone had their own little spot where to put up the tent and park the car( right next to it).


The Grand Canyon itself..was..well..it was exactly like in the picture and what I heard: big. But that was about it. Sure it was captivating. But still I think that one time is enough. So no need to go back.



After seeing this part of the Grand Canyon we went to do some shopping. We needed some food. When I was still in the line for the check-out, Marke informed me that it was pouring outside! And sure there was some thunderstorm too! Nice. And our tent was outside waiting for us.. "Now it would get wet.. all the way through to my blanket" I thought. The tent was 90% dry when we got there. Luckily! So what did I buy? As a well-educated girl that I am, I chose some cinnamon-brown sugar mini-bagels and triple chocolate pudding! Healthy shit! But I also had some Animal Crackers, red grapes and green apples that I had bought from El Cajon and Phoenix. (Later I forgot one half of one of the apples into the car for quite some time and the smell was absolutely gross!! Luckily it went away with the apple)

When we had dined at our gorgeous dining table, we tried to sleep. In the tent. Of course! It was still thundering and we weren't tired enough to sleep..
Thank God I had my iPod Touch with me. And not just the iPod Touch.. but I had:

TWILIGHT! Yes thats right!! I had the entire movie in my iPod. So we watched it. It was my (just an estimate) 100th time and Marke's FIRST TIME. Can you believe it!? The screen was kinda small and my earphone's were 50% broken so the sound wasn't that good. Or it wouldn't have been. Luckily Marke brought a bag with her, that had a little speakers on it! So, in the end, we watched the Twilight-movie from my iPod, using bag's speakers, in a tent, at Grand Canyon. And during a thunderstorm.
Just an average day for us ;)

The Roadtrip part.1 San Diego- Phoenix

I'm now forcing myself to finally start telling about my roadtrip. I guess I should do this when I feel like I really have the time and the will to do this, but let's do it anyway!
So, early in the morning me and Marke left from my home. I bet Marke was supertired, since she said it was "waaaaay to hot"(wtf?! I had my fan on 'high' and I was freezing!). So maybe it wasn't the heat, but the Edward Cullen -giant poster on my wall. She did mention that he looks scary.
First stop was 7-Eleven. There we bought some ice! Can you believe it!? ICE. We bought fuckin' ICE! This was the first time EVER I had to PAY for DAMN ICE! (Little did I know then..) Then we started really driving towards Phoenix. We did stop "a couple" of times though. Sometimes we had to stop: the views were just too great to ignore and the Border Patrol wanted to check most cars driving near the Mexico border.
The Border Patrol guys were pretty cool. And they didn't stop us even though we laughed at them(okay we laughed at us..I guess..I'm not sure anymore :D)

Here's some pics of the views. Cool, huh?



We stopped in El Centro to eat. And what's the best place to have some very nutritious meal? IN 'N OUT!

Did I mention we got some company? He got the backseat.

I'm really sure about is he Marke's child/baby or hostchild or just a friend or a pet. He was a real sweetheart. When everyone else was having a bad moment. He kept smiling!



This last one is a view from out MOTEL -room. Motel6 was WAAAAY better than I thought it would be!





The streets of Phoenix were.. well.. EMPTY.. DESERTED. But Phoenix was totally worth going! But let me tell ya what was the big thing of the moment there: Green Day. It was the only thing there was to do really. Some shops were closed. Even Starbucks was closed! Can you believe it!? But gotta admit we met 2 awesome dudes there;) I'm gonna post a pic of them some day, when I do my US-people -post. So stay tuned.(And in case someone is tuned,ever, comment! You morons..)
The dinner in Phoenix was one of the best of the trip. Look at it! And think, it was delivered right behind our door! And man I was hungry! And fuck how hungry even looking at it made me! Luckily this is the last picture of The Day One anyway, so now I'm gonna go scavenge some food. (I wish I had kettle corn, but I only have some popcorn, and I had some yesterday..but managed to burn it! Damn stupid instructions: "1-4MINS" and I put 2,5 and 20% of the popcorn burned!)