Californication

As promised - some more pictures from our California road trip. Hope you enjoy:

above: on the knees for my hero David Bowie at Hollywood Walk of Fame

Venice Beach

 

Look at this crazy miniature-encrusted van in Santa Barbara!

Oh, they smell!

 

driving the Highway 1 to the great Santa Cruz: 

beach fun, vintage shopping, mexican food and an art-deco-cinema, needless to say I was very happy there.

arriving at San Francisco  

 

after vintage shopping at Haight Street I enjoyed all my shopping successes

 for so far at the bedside locker in our 1930s hotel

playing Mini Golf at the Lake Tahoe

watching TCM on a rainy day in a retro motel near the Mono Lake

 Welcome to the wild Wild West on the 4th of July! 

 

  

talking to the ghosts in Ghost Town Bodie

 

 

After hiking in the more than beautiful Yosemite National Park, 

we were heading trought the unscalable Death Valley by 50 degrees strait to Nevada.

 

Las Vegas was overlain by a giant smoke cloud from the bushfire,

but at night - it´s just neon lights and show girls.

on Route 66 trough the Mojave Desert we reached Palm Springs, our last station.

There I was finding myself, as a vintage clipons collector,  in real HEAVEN...

but more from that in the next post.

PS: a big thanx to all our fabulous air bnb hosts!