After a long day - starting at 0330 am in Norway (add 9 h to get SF time) we took off from Heatrow (after a short flight from Oslo) in a Boing 747.

And - as you know we found a 2 seat at the far back of the plane - which was close to full!

After [...]

It’s 8 am and we’re already awake. Why? Cause we wanted to do an online check-in and get some nice seating arrangement.
After changing seats a couple of times we noticed (I guess we were a bit blind) that there were some 2 + 2 seats at the back so we took one of those. Then [...]

I’m not afraid of flying. I just find it to be very boring so I checked BA (British Airways) for unboard entertainment on their flights to SF. Not too bad really. Add a good book - some fruit - a drink or two - voila!
1. Movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2. [...]

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Since we’ll be leaving from Miami we might start to head north of Orlando before heading south. The only thing we know is that we start in Orlando and have 2 nights there before we pick up our rental car. We also know that we’d like to visit Everglades since an uncle of my [...]

The butterflies are starting to come. Until now I’ve been kinda calm, but it hit me today that we’re off to the US - THIS WEEK! (read - taking the bus to the air port at am 0450.. !!!) Anyway! We’re still looking at stuff to do - places to visit so if you’re out [...]

 
It’s 11 days till we’re off to to San Francisco and the start of our 25 days “round-trip”. We’ll be arriving on Sunday 21st so we figured that we should have atleast one day to get zoned in (new time zone) before taking on Alcatraz.
So - Tuesday 23rd we’re off to the famous Rock. I’ve [...]

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The only drawback is the lens which is a bit small so we’re gonna buy a larger one when we get to San Francisco. The camera itself is really nice and perfect for us amateurs.
Thanks again dad for spoiling us rotten!

My dad gave this to us. Can’t say anything more than it’s small - tiny! - very cute and it’s just perfect to help us catch those Kodak moments (for de norske betyr dette å fange øyeblikkene) that we can live on when we get back.