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Quelques photos d'une promenade un jour ou il faisait un peu froid :

Tiens, je suis tombé par hasard sur cette page, et je crois que j'aime bien.

Some new pictures added :

I missed my train last sunday ... so spent half an hour waiting.

Waiting for the RER going to Paris last sunday night ...

That's le Kremlin Bicetre, near where I live, just near Paris (Porte d'Italie).

That's San Francisco.

I put some photos from some american cars before. Now here are some french cars.





Yes, everybody has that kind of car in France, you didn't know ?

I like this car. There are a lot of old cars like that in the USA. They are beautiful. I took that picture while I was walking in Grants Pass ... more than 2 months ago. I wish I had a car like that.



A beautiful green car, in Long Beach.



The police in Seattle.



This one was funny. Somewhere in San Francisco.



This one wanted a 4x4, so he modified his car. Somewhere near Salinas.



In Ashland (some people write Assland).



That's Linda's car. I like her car, even if it's old.



An other car like the ones we can see in the movies ...

I need to come back there sometime.

I added a few pictures. Thoses from one night we was going to Ashland. An other day when I was walking in grants pass, and today in grants pass.

Christopher is working.





And I'm working too, of course.

Hmm, so I did nothing special this weekend (at least, nothing worth mentionning here, or that I should remember), except this afternoon. I had nothing to do, so I drove a little in the forrest taking pictures, and thoses 3 small videos : 1 2 3













Then back in Grants Pass ...



This afternoon I also spent some time looking at old pictures I had taken before. And found thoses (I put them back online) that I took last year when driving to Athis Mons last year. It's been a long time since I didn't take this road (or any road like that). And also thoses pictures which I find quite funny. And now I'm listenning to Asia - The Smile Has Left Your Eyes before going to sleep.
This week I have to work on the report I have to do for school for my intership (and abstract and xml document for the end of next week).

A few photos I took in the car ...











This cat is funny, and he always come to see me when I'm walking outside :

I was looking at some photos from last year ...









And sometimes I would like to be able to come back in France for a few days.

...

On the road between Grants Pass and Portland :



Entering Washington :



Entering Seattle :



The next day, going to Redmond, we saw this car, probably a KDE fan :



Then we found the Microsoft Campus, and took a few photos. Ooops, I had a Linux Tea Shirt :



And a "Powered By Linux" Cap :



Then we came back to Seattle :











We decided to go to the top of the Bank Of America Tower (the tallest one in Seattle) :

















We've been to the east of Seattle, and came back when it was the beginning of the night :







The next day it was raining in Seattle, so we decided to go to Portland :

Yesterday morning I didn't know what to do. I took my map, and saw something called "lava beds national monuments". After looking on google, that looked good so I decided to go.



I took the I5 to Ashland.







then the 66 that goes from Ashland to Klamath Falls (but I turned before Klamath Falls) which is a beautiful road in the forest.



Then on the 161.











Then entering Lava Beds



















A small trail I can take maybe an other day.





Entering the Modoc National Forest.



"rought road ahead"



That was a small road, and I wasn't sure where it was going ...







So I decided to come back. But I saw later (when I found a map) that it was actually the road I wanted to take, but it was too late. I'll have to come back an other day.











It was almost night.









Lava Beds is definitivly a nice place. Very good for hiking, and camping. And it's also possible to visit some caves (but I wouldn't do it alone) ...

Some photos I took today on a small road on Onion mtn.




























And some photos from last weekend, in Carmel, San Jose :



When I arrived in San Francisco, I stopped a little to take this photo.



Hmm, they don't seem to like France :)













And the next day I came back by the 101, that was a little long :)

Today is saturday. This afternoon I didn't really know what to do, so I took the car, and decided to drive on the I5 to Roseburg. Actually I took the Riddle exit. Then I saw on my map that there is a small road between Riddle and Glendale (Glendale is an other small city near the I5, on the south). This road is called the cow creek road.





I drove for some time on this road, then decided to go on a small path near the main road to see where it was going.







Actually there was not only one path, but a lot. A very big labyrinth in thoses small mountains full of trees, with no-one :)
After 1/2h I decided to come back to the main road. Did I come from left or right on this path ? That was not always easy to remember :)
Then back on the main road I drove about 15 minutes and found this bridge.



When stopping there I also saw there was someone fishing near the river: I was not alone in this big forest !!
Then it was almost night. There was 2 roads, one on the left, one on the right over a bridge. Which one take ? I didn't know, but on the map, it didn't seem I had to cross a bridge, so I took the left road. If I was where I though I was on the map, then it shouldn't take a lot of time before I can take the I5. I drove for some time, but still nothing. And the road was smaller and smaller, with sometimes some peaces of wood on the border of the road, or some rocks. I didn't have a lot of gas, so I decided to come back. It was then night, and completly dark. I wanted to come back to the bridge. But there was a lot of smaller roads on the left and rights, and I was always wondering if I really was on the same road I was before, as I didn't recognize anything (and it seemed to be too long). I had no idea where I was, and wanted to ask someone, but I was complety alone. I finally arrived at the bridge. There I took the other road (crossing the bridge), and I saw a car parked here. I had seen someone fishing and that was his car. I found him near the river, and asked him if he knew the road to Glendale. He told me to just stay on the main road and I would arrive to Glendale, that it is where he was from, and that I could follow him if I wanted. And that's what I did. After 20 or 30 minutes I was in Glendale. I was back to where there are people living :)
It was then easy to get back to the I5. And if you're lost, it's easy to get help, just stop on the border of the road, and someone will probably come. I stopped 2 times (not because I was lost), and 2 times someone came a few seconds after I stopped to help me find the right road :)

Last weekend I had decided to go to the Southern California Linux Expo in Los Angeles. It's quite far, and I decided to take the bus (maybe flying or driving would have been better after all, I'll see next time). And you don't sleep very well in the bus :)



So I arrived on friday afternoon in Los Angeles, at about 4pm, and it was raining. I had a reservation for the student inn international hostel (which is quite cheap) on Hollywood Blvd, and my problem was to go there. I walked a little from the greyhound station on the 7th street, and that's where I found that some places in Los Angeles doesn't look safe. And finding a map, with the metro and bus lines is not that easy ... After walking for some time (and a little scared alone in this part of the city), I decided to take a bus that was stopping there. I didn't know the price, so I gave 5$, but she (the bus driver) told me they don't have change in the bus, but she let me stay for free as I seemed to be new in this city. After some time the bus stopped for some reason (I think the bus had some technical problems and needed to be changed). I was now in Downtown LA (where there was a lot more people, in a place which seemed more safe). I was looking the streets names on my map, when some people helped me find the nearest metro station (after walking about 5 minutes), showed them the address where I wanted to go, and they told me I had to go to Hollywood/Vine. I was then able to buy a ticket (it's $3 to be able to take any metro or bus for one day), then took the metro, and walked 30 minutes on hollywood blvd before finding the hostel (and I found that the Hollywood/Highland station was closer).



The next day I walked a little in hollywood, before taking the metro and bus to go the the LA Convention Center.







Some of the presentations was quite interesting.



After that the night was falling, and I decided to take a bus to go anywhere (in china town where there was a lot of people, then some place where there was some fun-fair, and a bridge over the highway).







I came back to Hollywood Blvd, and walked from one end to the other end. There was a lot of animation here, a lot of people ... After that it was about 11:30pm, so it was time to go sleep.



Then next day ... everything look different when it's no more night



Some roads was closed, I didn't know exactly why, so I had to take a different way (which was not a bad idea).





In the afternoon I saw why they had closed some roads.



A lot of limo cars, probably from rich people. I don't know what they were doing, but I don't really care about people who pretend to be stars because they have a lot of money or they're on tv (actually I think I hate show business), so I didn't stay and decided to take the metro to Long Beach (and see the sea before leaving).









Then it was night ...











Then it was time to come back ...



In downtown LA to find a bus to go to greyhound. There are a lot of people whithout money sleeping in the streets.







The road where I wanted to take the bus was closed as they was making a movie.



So I walked a little more ... That's where I met someone else going to greyhound, speaking french (and living in the US for about 3 years).



(I like the phones here)
Then I took the greyhound bus, and arrived about 17 hours later in Grants Pass (after some stops in various cities in central California).

That was a good weekend ! I hope I'll be able to come back to Los Angeles in the futur (with a car) ...
Next cities to visit are Portland and Seattle (I don't know when).

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