Grand Canyon, West Rim

What an amazing scenery of what nature can create, it’s almost biblical. I never thought I would be near a cliff edge with a drop of 1200 meter (4000 feet). I had to change my underwear after this experience.

Hoover Dam

What an engineering master piece at it’s time (1935). The police surveillance was all over the place and that is understandable when you see the masses of water this dam do contain.

Bellagio, Dancing Water

Las Vegas

Vegas, the cartoon town. Quite amazing sceneries, sizes of buildings and in the middle of the dessert, all together quite unreal but really cool.

Erice

Erice, the ghost town

Today we visited the ghost town Erice close to Trapani on the North West coast of Sicily.

The town was not at so high altitude, around 750m, but still the clouds came rolling in on a regular basis. Very nice scenery with old buildings, streets, churches and “castles”. The big difference between Erice and the rest of Italy is the noise level, it was so quiet and peaceful when walking though the “town”. At the same time it was allowed to drive through the town with a car and we were forced to on the way out from Erice. We were lucky that we had replaced the big bus with a Renault Scenic that is a normal sized car due to the size of the allies.

Tomorrow it will be a day on the beach before we head home, it will be sad to leave Sofia and David but we all know they will continue in the best manner as normal on the way home to Göteborg.

Some mixed pics

Yesterday we visited the wine yard Marsala Florio that produce different types of white and red wine, everything from sweet dessert wines to dry "almost" normal wines. They have a interesting history, they started to add alcohol to the normal wines to secure that the wine was in good condition when it was exported, this then became their signature way of producing their wines. the wine yard was heavily bombed during the second world war when the allies invaded Sicily 1943.

We had a guided tour, got to taste some wines and then it was time for the wine shop and as usual we ended up with some cases of bottles.

Today is the last day when we are all together, Jimmy and Linnea are flying home this afternoon and the rest of the crew are leaving on Sunday.

Today we have been scuba diving in ordinary Italian way, no licenses or questions asked and it was value for money in conjunction with professional instructors.

The trip out with the RIB was a good break from being on land to long. We had big fun and it was a good excursion. Tomorrow is the last full day for Jimmy and Linnea so we are planning to visit a wine yard before they have to fly home.

Beach mode

Midsummer Lunch

Midsummer lunch was for once in a while conducted in nice temperatures and "paltkoma" took place afterwards as normal.

During the evening we did a Sicilian BBQ with some really nice steaks, garlic/olive oil bread and some nice salad, life is good. The tools were not Weber tools but you take what you have, in this case a wrench.

Bernard, the campervan

Bernard (the campervan) has now after two moth of intensive use been put on the parking lot at the house for a 10 days of rest, it feels quite sad due to the service it has provided in a very good manner according to the age. Bernard felt a little bit lonely so we put the rental car (buss) close to Bernard and now he feels better and not lonely.

//Walle

Sicily 2011

Finally we are meeting up with Sofia and David on Sicily at Marzala Del Vallo on the west coast of Sicily. After half a day on airports and planes and then ~1 hour drive Ann and I meet up with our wonderful campervaners, hugs and kisses and ….. words can’t explain the feeling, it was just heaven.

At midnight Jimmy and Linnea came to another airport and we went and picked them up with our buss. So now we are one big happy family and we are very much missing Jonas and Veronica.

We got the keys to our Villa and reality wasn’t like the pictures but it will do just fine, at the beach and around 35 degrees with a slight breeze (thank God for that) so life is good.

Today it’s Midsummer Eve so we will have a traditional Swedish Midsummer lunch with herring, potatoes and some accessories, all brought with us in the suitcases.

Life is good

The first leg starts here, now +3 month of just big fun in front of them

Can you hear the mighty 2 liter engine bursting out tons of horsepower?

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Can it get much better? I don't think so.

The big quiz

Who left the glass at the Delta check in counter at Pittsburgh International Airport?

SAP dinner at Buca di Beppo at Stations Square

Mr. Handsome

Good old friends, you can't live without them

Donna and Herbert

Kathy and Cliff at Damon's

First evening

Herbert, Christina, Eva, Walle and Thomas during the first dinner at T.G.I Friday's

Eva and Christina at Paris

Pittsburgh

So then it was time for a business trip to Pittsburgh and the goal was to study SAP at MPD.
We were a quite big crew, Thomas, Walle, Herbert, Eva, Christina, Ulf and Lotta (Ulf’s wife).
As normal it was a lot of shopping, good food and meeting up with good old friends.

It is quite tight in small cars, especially when you are more than it’s designed for…. but still fun

The pretty couple

Strikeee....

The elegances do differ ….. ;-)

Strikeeeeee….

We end the evening in the bowling alley

Three lovely ladies…….

Ann and Ebba together with the crew at the restaurang

More presents.....

More presents from our kids to my wonderful wife….