Yesterday night this was happening in my head:

Hey, the little hairs in your inner ear are moving, meaning: you are moving, but you are still sleeping. WAKE THE FUCK UP NOW!

So I woke up, looking at a Mikkel that also had been woken up by a little earthquake in the San Francisco area. Well, my comment was something with “awesome” and we went back to sleep. Here’s a map about what was going on:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/FaultMaps/San_Francisco.html

As mentioned earlier, this guy bought a new camera. He’s pretty eager to practice all the functionality of it and I’m pretty happy that I get to be around and try to pass on the technical skills that I have in our spare time.

The other night we were out looking for a harddrive, which we couldn’t get, but we got some nice shots of castro and I of Mikkel.

Oh and when we were on the way home today I got a nice pre sunset

So I’m over here in San Francisco right now and I’m having a lot of fun with the guys. The days are long and the city still appears huge and unexplored to me. We’re living in Castro, one of the biggest gay districts of the world. The people are friendly and often alternative, which makes it pretty fun and safe to be around.

Now, some first impressions:

This is what happens if you overlook that sign that says happy hour. You accidentially 4 long island ice teas although you wanted one for each.

Mister M. just got a new baby he’s been taking good care of. He bought her a nice home and a new strap already.

So today I received the sweetest letter from my girlfriend, where she, once again demonstrated her extremely awesome drawing skills. Hands up for the most comforting words and cutest owls!

In a little more than a day I will be between continents, and that not as usual, metaphorically, but physically.

I’ll be on my way to the US and I’m looking forward to a great time there! I’ll shoot a lot of photos and tell more about my stay on the usual social networks (especially Diaspora*) and over here.

This means that I’m not going to see my girlfriend in a really long time, but I just got a pretty amazing gift, that definitely will go on my wall over there. She’s probably the greatest drawing (yes, and painting, I know) talent I know and she sketches this down in really short time:

Onward to a time of multiple, different and great challenges, both personal and professional ones. It’s got its upsides to be easily challenged, because it puts you in this furious mood, where you know you can do anything you want.

These are pictures from 3 weeks of my summer in 2011, I actually already have written a lot of notes on. I could turn actually turn it into a huge travel report.

The reason I wont do this, this time is that I feel I wouldn’t be able to develop and present it as I would like to turn out to be. When we visited Latvia I worked a lot asides visiting so many beautiful places. The feeling of not completing my writing on this time of travel isn’t bad though I’m more happy that a few people will be able to let the pictures tell the story.

Thanks to my wonderful girlfriend Ieva for showing me everyything we saw and putting up with me, constantly stopping to take pictures

The flight

Jani

Liepaja – living

Liepaja – graveyard

badass Mikkel

the beach

riga open air museum

wired up

Long Island Icetea

up there

Dzels Vilks





worlds apart

lock n’ love

pidgeon!

art museum

backyard

window

river

milda

custom balcony

the road

the fallen

sunlight