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Kern River

May 24, 2014 by popnea

I have to say that maybe I stayed up a little later than I should’ve had last night so it took me a while to wake up this morning.

Had breakfast but went back and tried to get a nap in the shade before it got to hot. I’m a terrible napper though, but it was nice to just lay down, listen to the nature and not think about anything for a while.

Around 11am I felt human again and could be social.

We went for an hour long stroll in the heat by noon to find cell reception to call our incoming friends. Exercise of the day done! Time to head back and cook lunch.

Everyone is finally here and we are ready to hit the water!

We saw this little guy in the water. Got me excited, but also kind of wishing I had some sort of shoes on so he wont cut my toes off.

The river was pretty strong but a ton of fun! We got hungry from all the playing and was ready to start cooking before the sun set.

Father’s Office

May 8, 2014 by popnea

I took the bus down to Abbott Kinney after work to meet up with the Swedes at Intelligentsia.

As usual we had no plans and just roamed around. After some window shopping we were trying to figure out what to eat for dinner. I suggested that maybe we could head back to Helms and go to Lukshon so they can eat fancy food from a “TV Chef”, and if they don’t like the menu, there’s still 3 other good restaurants in the area, one of which is tried and true Father’s Office, owned and run by the same known TV Chef.
Of course, we picked Father’s Office at the end.

It’s My Sister’s Birthday

April 28, 2014 by popnea

We went out to celebrate with pizza. Sadly, she lives some 6000 miles away and couldn’t be here.

Bye Bye Mammoth

April 27, 2014 by popnea

Or as I like to say it; Let’s close this shit down!

Even though they got a bunch of snow over the weekend and the mountain stays open for another month, this will highly likely be my last ski day of the season.

Slasher and his posse is moving houses in a few days. I made sure I’m busy all through May so I don’t have to help with the move.

Washington D.C Day Two

March 22, 2014 by popnea

There’s a ton of free museums in Washington DC and everyone has their own favorite. People kept telling me to go to The Smithsonian, but The Smithsonian is actually about 20 different museums so when I got to DC I just walked around to see what seemed interesting.

I decided I wanted to see those important documents that stated that “This is our country now, whoever was here before can bugger off!” – Also known as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. I figured they would be in the National Archives Museum.

There were no photos allowed, but I could not resist. They are in there!

Beer lunch, hell yeah! I miss these old Brit like, not dive like, pubs – I wish we had more of them in Los Angeles.

My feet were still super tired today from all the walking yesterday. I kept walking today, but a lot slower and with a lot of breaks. There’s always something to look at though, so that’s cool!

Memorials everywhere! The Jefferson Memorial;

The Cherry Blossom Festival started today, but it’s been so cold on the east coast so the blossoms were not out yet. This is all supposed to be pink… I’ll have to come back some other year to check them out.

Kind of knackered I felt it was time to head back, have a beer and fall asleep early, but then I walked by the National Museum of American History and felt I should pop my head in and see what it was all about.

They had the vey first Star Spangled Banner on display which was cool, but then I got to tired and fed up with America that I had to leave. A beer was definitely over due.

I figured one thing out over the past two days; if a building has pillars, it probably means it is important.

Washington D.C

March 21, 2014 by popnea

I got into Washington DC at 8am and it felt like I walked about 100 miles throughout the day. I started off with the Capitol Building.

These two R’n’B singers win! They were recording a music video. I don’t think I need to do anymore sightseeing today, nothing will top this!

I heard you might be able to go inside, but I could not be bothered researching that, I felt there was so much to do anyway. Off to the Washington Monument I went.
“Off course the have to renovate it now, when I’m here” I thought as I saw it had turned into a construction site. I later learned it was damaged from the 5.8 earthquake in 2011. So, fair enough…

A glimpse of the White House, but I’ll get back to that later.

The Lincoln Memorial was crowded! A few busloads of school kids must just have arrived.

They had drained the Reflecting Pool, but I could still see some reflection!

I’ve always found the Lincoln Memorial a little creepy. Why does he have to be so huge like? Sitting on his throne looking out over the people.

After the creepy Lincoln, I headed over to Georgetown. The old part of town. I had made my research before hand and learned that Baked & Wired was the best place to find delicious baked goods. There were a huge line out the door when I arrived, and I got a little stressed and disappointed. All I could see was cupcakes. I’ve never been a big fan of cupcakes. I wanted a cream pie, not a stupid cupcake. I couldn’t find anything on the menu that really looked appealing to me, so I just grabbed a gluten free chocolate cupcake, that surprisingly was really good. Coffee was pretty good as well. As I had my coffee and cupcake I finally saw where they were hiding their pies – under the counter! What the hell!

I liked Georgetown a lot, super cute old buildings.

Washington DC has this awesome bike share system, you pay $7 for 24h and you get to use a bike as much as you want. There’s hubs all over the city where you can park your bike and pick up a new one. Brilliant system, I want Los Angeles to adapt this as well!

By 4pm I was already exhausted from all the walking, but I made it to the real reason I came to Washington DC. I had an appointment with Sweden.

After being laugh at by the Swedish ambassador due to my Justin Bieber haircut on the 5 year old documents, I made it out of there. The first beer of the day was way overdue!

I was gonna meet my friend at 7pm in Chinatown, 2.5 miles away from where I was. I was tired, but had plenty of time, so I kept walking.

I walked by the White House, the light from the sunset was really nice.

The White House seem a lot smaller than I was expecting. We have bigger houses than that in Los Angeles, haha!

I walked by the Capitol City Brewing Company. I had to stop in for a beer.

Back to Chinatown!

Off to Washington D.C

March 20, 2014 by popnea

I get to spend the weekend in Washington DC, pretty excited about that since I have never been.

I always have to have a pint of beer before boarding a plane. It helps me fall asleep before they even shut the doors.
I am supposed to be on a gluten free diet, but I can cheat while on vacation. This beer tasted so good!

Birthday Dinner and Party

March 15, 2014 by popnea

Martin is in town, and it is his birthday so we had to go out for dinner! We went to Osteria La Buca in Hollywood.

I gave up gluten for Lent. Don’t ask me why… You do get one cheat day a week though and my cheat day is Saturday, so a beer was a given. You can’t beat having a drink out of a jar, right?

We headed over to Sawtelle and GR2 that was celebrating 20 years of business.

Big Bear

March 2, 2014 by popnea

I should’ve picked up my new skis yesterday that was shipped to my friends house, but I got stuck at the bank for 3 hours counting my change that I wanted to deposit (eeeh, I’m at the bank, don’t they have machines to do that for you….??), so I got to use my old skis again today.

So excited to see real snow for once! In December I said I was gonna try to ski at least once every month for the season and in the car up I realized it was already March so I can check that off! I wonder if Big Bear will still be open in April, that would be neat!

Due to the recent storm, all of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Orange County thought it was a good idea to go boarding. It took us quite some time to get up the mountain and we started to get a little scared it might sell out, but once we got a spot in the line for the shuttle that would take us up to Summit like kettles, we were all set. Just have to wait patiently.

Once we were up, the lift lines weren’t all that bad. The weather kept rolling in but it didn’t matter, we had to much fun skiing.

I very rarely have a drink before or during my ski sessions, I usually save that for after, but today was definitely a heiße Schokolade mit Rum day!

We didn’t see much sun today, but we kept skiing until they closed and I still felt like I could’ve kept going. This rarely happens to me, I usually feel like I’ve had enough around 3pm. I wanna go again!

We stopped by Big Bear Mountain Brewery on the way home, how come I have never been here before?

Big Bear Weekend

February 8, 2014 by popnea

You ski and board for free at Snow Summit on your birthday so a bunch of us headed up to the mountain for the weekend to celebrate. Happy birthday to me!