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Näytetään blogitekstit, joiden ajankohta on tammikuu, 2018.

Days 141 - 143 Los Angeles - Paso Robles - Ridgecrest

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Los Angeles - Paradise City. Where everything seems to be artificial and fake. At least on the more touristic places. I you have the money it would be a place to spend weeks. There's everything: wax museums, tours, shows, concerts whatever you desire. For a low budget traveler... a bit too expensive city. But most of the big cities are. My goal was to see the sea from this side. So I took a bus to Santa Monica beach and pier. I was there quite early,  around 11am so there was not too much people. Such a tourist attraction. But worth seeing. Another place to see was the Walk of Fame. Especially a couple of stars there. That was definitely the most touristic place I've been in a while. But it was nice walk. I have noticed that if you want to avoid the masses you should go in the morning. Or because nothing is open before 10am go around that time. Those places took me two days. Los Angeles is a huge city so going anywhere takes a lot

Days 137 - 140 Toronto (- Guyra) - Toronto - Sydney - Los Angeles

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Sunday was unbelievably hard day. We started in the morning with Duncan to get the bike from Guyra. It was hit already then! And it got worse during the day. A lot worse! In that heat air conditioning would have been great. In addition to physical hardness the day was mentally hard as seeing the bike brought back the situation I fell. Let's see what it feels when I get on a bike again. John from Guyra Towing gave to give us the bike. Together we lifted it on the trailer and secured (yes, with ropes) it. We were extremely lucky that Annie was short enough to fit in without removing front wheel. And of we went to Toronto with no other trouble than the heat. Ivan from Bikes Abroad has a deal with a company called Pro Bike in Sydney. They pack customer's bikes in old BMW crates and deliver the bikes to the airport or harbour depending on the situation. At Pro Bike I faced bad customer service for the first time in Australia. Those guys really made it clear that