travel

Hemma hos Edith

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Woke up bright and early and I had the privilege to help my friends out in their bakery before skiing.

The cafe is located just across the street from the ski lift. Super convenient, we could just walk over when we were ready to ski after breakfast.

The giant village of Funäsdalen!

Asher is getting ready for some epic turns, pretending he’s not cold at all.

It’s cold as hell and we’re slightly jet lagged so we headed back to the cafe for late lunch.

I used to be pretty damn good at baking, but it’s been a while. Veronica must have thought I did a good job in the morning thought cause I was allowed back in the afternoon.

We made it

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We didn’t fly together cause that’s overrated, but all the flights and luggage and tourists made it all the way from Los Angeles to Stockholm.
We got a rental car and started our drive up north. Stopped for late dinner just outside Gävle, probably one of the best pizzas I’ve ever had, so delicious!

We had quite a long drive ahead of us so we went to the grocery store to stock up on snacks, how can you go wrong with a store named City Gross?

Introduced Asher to the world of Swedish chocolates.

A few hours later after driving in pitch black on shitty icy roads while listening to Swedish radio and solving world problems, we came across these fellas.

I am quite an excellent co-driver and I’ve been around reindeers on shitty icy roads before so I saw them way ahead. I missed to communicate that to the driver though so we almost bumped into them. Reindeers are also kind of stupid and they won’t move even if a car get’s right up behind them. We got some nice photos and it felt like whatever happen the rest of the weeks in Sweden, it wouldn’t matter, we got to see reindeers!

Made it up to Funäsdalen shortly after 2am.

On the road to Mammoth

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Woke up before the sun today to drive up to Mammoth. It was one of those windy days so we saw another truck that had blown over. As we got closer we saw it was a Tecate truck, we considered stopping to pick up a case of beer.

Had breakfast at Carls Jr.

Possibly the grosses chicken sandwich I’ve had. I had to remove the chicken after one bite cause it was disgusting. Still couldn’t finish it.

Made it to the mountain, this was our office for the day!

Got back to the house and had a bunch of stuff to take care of.

Joshua Tree

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My parents didn’t wanna spend a lot of time in the car, but they’ve aslo never been to Joshua Tree and I kind of like this place so I had to take them. 

It feels like most of the time I take the route from north to south but a friend of mine told me to stop by for lunch in Pioneertown so we did south to north this time.
Since we had a bunch of coffee in the morning everyone was eager to use the restroom, I just wanted to stop by this weird little cactus forrest, as its fun looking and very local.

These are mean bastards, signs said they were hazardous and not to touch.

Right around here though, my father couldn’t hold it and had to take a leak, only to accidentally be poked by a cactus and got two dozens of spikes in his arm. These cactuses were not messing around, they were almost impossible to remove.

Fun was over, get back in the car. No more stops, and please do not touch anything.

The city of Joshua Tree seems a little beige, I’m glad I don’t live here.

We found the place for lunch in Piioneertown.

Dad got to drink a beer from a jar so he was happy!

Travel light

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I’m heading up to Mammoth and gonna stay there for a few nights, but I promised I’d help Asher with his apartment first and maybe do a round of golf in-between so I pretty much traveling with my hole apartment this time.

I like building stuff and always thought I was kind of good at it. I felt a little useless today though, started off a few things but couldn’t really finish anything. I blame it on the equipment. Asher still said I was a good help, I think he just said that to cheer me up.

I wasn’t the only one having issues though. This guy set entertainment lighting for a living and he still couldn’t figure out how to get the bedroom light fixture to work. He blamed it on color blindness.

It took us longer that expected to work on the apartment so we skipped golfing and headed straight up to Mammoth. Stopped for gas and I realized I had to cool down my beer for when we get there. It got to ride in the back of the truck the last hour.

Got Goose Island Winter Ale as beer no. 2.
I like it!

Plans failed

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It rained a bunch over night so we woke up to a message that the road over to Yosemite was closed due to bad snow conditions. That’s a bit of a bummer, we were all super excited to go. I was happy to see some snow in the morning though. A few weeks from now we’ll be skiing again!

We decided to make the best out of it and drive around Mammoth and June Lake for a bit before heading back home to LA.

We stopped by the hot springs on the way home, they were super warm and awesome!

Mammoth bound

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We decided last minute to go for Mammoth for the night and then continue to Yosemite tomorrow.

Usually when I drive up to Mammoth it’s after work and I wanna get there as quick as possible but this time we had some time to explore so we stopped by the Old Desert Cafe in Mojave.
 It was very empty and charming.

Once in Mammoth, we headed out to the Mammoth Brewing Company. The Yosemite Pale Ale was fantastic!

Homebound

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Woke up bright and early, I didn’t really want to get up, but I also wanted to pack up most of the stuff before it got way hot.

We had some amusement with our morning coffee, how long does it take for the ants to pick up the cheetos? It took them a little to long, none of us had the patient to wait and see.

All right folks, its a wrap, see you back in Los Angeles!

Camping in Joshua Tree

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We got up before the sun and drove 2.5 hours into the desert, we’re going camping with the REI. 

I get excited every time I see the windmills by Palm Spring, we were so busy talking about them this time so we missed our exit and had to do a little 6 mile detour.

Got to our site around 9 am and set up camp. It was already hot by then.

REI had a few events planned out for us, one of them was Geocaching. We got coupled up, handled a GPS receiver and sent off to the desert to find things, it was super fun!

Once we found everything that was to be found we headed back to camp for lunch and chill in the shade.

We did rock climbing in the afternoon. I’ve never done it before but it was awesome! I can see myself getting into that, but I think I’ll stick to ski and golf.

Look, I do stuff!

WTF Nathan!

We found an elephant!