recently in a bank

somewhere in the us of a:
me: do you buy new zealand dollars?
b: ?
me: do you change nz dollars to usd?
b: ahm... asks her boss... yes we do, but its 15 usd service fee! do you want to do that?
me: depends. what would i get for 260 nz dollars?
b: grammel, grammel, tip, tip... u would get... 259,89 usd! :)
me: nono that cant be right, thats the nz dollar amount.
b: fetches her boss. boss also sayz i get 255 and something usd
me: nooouuu thats too much, should be around 200
b: grammel tip tip... ah, u get 213usd!
me: ah, great, i take it, thats nice
b: (30 minutes since start of the transaction)... grammel tip tip... aaah u actually only get 185 usd minus 15 usd since we are buying not selling nzd!
me thinking: thats what i said half an hour ago

see, this is why the us of a are so ahead of us and the rest of the world! ;)

tokeland

H: Cicindaellidae - Sandlaufkäfer

H:strangely enough there were a lot of firework sellers - presumably native americans; since there was also a casino and a tribe community center nearby. I wonder whats up with that,

  

depoe bay and others

devils punchbowl

devils punchbowl 

  

near garibaldi

columbia river (between oregon and washington)

columbia river

seattle...

...could get interesting: searched for amps and guitars and found 3 shops with interesting gear and a gibson showroom all in center, and paul red smith visits one of them when were there! this is what i kindof missed in san francisco.

gold (cold) beach oregon

a cats lodge?

42 - the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything ;)

H: we considered doing some stand up paddle as well, but it was too cold for us - so we'll proobably try that the first time on the old danube then ;)

killer or graywale?
H: there were at least 3 wales out there for more than 1 day, and they looked like gray wales. However THIS pic looks a lot like an orca... strange.

H: this big male butterfly looked almost like a silkmoth; we found it mostly immoveable on the shore; it was freezing - like us ;)

H: @Andrea - vielleicht gefaellt das den Parents? ;)

H: thats just so funny - to be found in many restrooms in the states

hecate lighthouse

california north coast

trinidad
H: would have made a perfect location for pirates of the caribbean

trinidad

H: this spider was hunting on the sand, and blended just perfectly into the black/white sand there

love it ;)
H: they seem to love jarmush too :)

H: diplopoda mating (and walking as if they wouldnt mate)

H: another native animal; seems to live in treetrunks

tree hugging

Sonoma Coast

california ... very very windy and coolish

great rock shark ;)

H: another touristy thing we had to do ... drive through tree

H: some serious treehugging to do on the avenue of giants 

ferndale ... nice little town where we met shawn who is a great artist/painter and also a surfer 

ferndale as well

one of the cool paintings of shawn

near cape mendocino

cape mendocino

H: more tree huggging ... those trees need so much love

... :)))

H: looking up the same redwoods, they are so huge ... an ant couldn't feel smaller

banana slug - native animal