Rogier’s Road to Recovery

And so I tried to pick up sports again…
A big, big, big group of friends formed a team at korfball sports club Pernix. We have 15 teammates, while only 8 can play at any given time… It’s a happy mess : it consists of players totally new to the sport, players who played last [...]

After Las Vegas we drove to Yellowstone – America’s first National Park. It has unique thermal features like hot springs and geysers (only to be found here, in Iceland or in Australia on this planet) and has tremendous ecological importance. I have attended some lectures while I was at Princeton on research done on the [...]

All I can say about Las Vegas is that I was ill-prepared for it. You’ll have to go there for yourself.
Nevada is quite crazy anyway, with loads of slot machines at the gas stations and local laundromats…
In Las Vegas, we stayed at the fourth-largest hotel in the world located on the strip : the Luxor. [...]

We left for Yosemite Park and it was quite a drive getting there. After a day full of driving we got to Yosemite National Park – and even though our drive through the park was during dusk – it was gorgeous with it’s towering hills, closely packed green trees and clear water rivers.
We [...]

We drove on to San Diego over regular highways and found that there was absolutely no hotelroom available to us there! Quite surprising as we read that San Diego has over 45.000 hotelrooms in the city. We ended up after driving for a couple of hours at La Jolla – a very atmospheric suburb aligned [...]

Los Angeles is quite a BIG city!! It consists of many many many different cities, with independent flavours. We stayed in a great hotel next to the beach in Santa Monica – perhaps the nicest area in LA.
We drove through Hollywood (trashy!), Beverly Hills (definitely not trashy!!), Venice Beach (weird people), South Park (many homeless), [...]

After Monterey, we left for Los Angeles through route 1 – also dubbed Scenic Highway 1 and with reason! It closely follows the coastline and yields spectacular views along the way! We stopped at least every 200 meters to take pictures (so we really have a lot of them!).
Close to Monterey there is the ‘17-mile [...]

Sanne and I are now sitting in the Library of Monterey, a small city on the coast of California. We’re still a little bit dizzy from the 5-hour boat trip this morning : we went out on the sea to spot whales! We actually saw Humpback Whales, different kinds of Dolphins, Sea Lions, Seals and [...]

So we arrived in San Francisco! Unfortunately a little late since we started out with delays already at Schiphol and therefore had to be booked to another flight and blablabla…
We’re here! San Francisco is quite special. It’s very hilly in the outskirts of the city as well as downtown. SF has got very different feeling [...]