Seattle

I spent one afternoon in Seattle before my flight to Detroit. I just hung around carrying my backpack, let buses drive me by random...

Space Needle

OMA-Rem Koolhas Library

Haha... high school..

Pine (or Pike?) Market

Dowtown, sunny afternoon

Market at Sunset

Lots of noticable buildings

On the top of Capitol Hill

Lake view Cemetery

Bruce Lee's here!

In blossom

Olympia, WA

Early in the morning on a saturday, I took the Greyhound to Olympia, where I would meet my friend Leon. We met 4 years ago in Lyon, France, at an electronic music festival: "Nuits sonores". We always kept contact, and after having spent a crazy week together in 2005, it was my turn to come over and say hi!
Olympia was also very relax. Have you seen the movie "Last days" of Gus Van Sant? It was this kind of atmospehre (fortunately less depressing!). I stayed the weekend at Leon's house with his roommates, all very friendly. We walked in the woods, cooked organic food, picked nettles, listened to good sound, made a "Clothing swap" (fun), saw a theater play on Evergreen University rooftop, I read and wrote a lot...
Thanks Leon!!!

Olympia Port

Olympia crane

Lake

Trumpet players

Leon's house

Me in Leon's Garden

Leon's car..? noo.. old abandonned truck

Hippies swaping clothes

Hippies ; )

Portland, OR

Portland was exactly what I needed after LA and Vegas' crazyness. Smaller city, much more indie and underground, arty... I couchsurfed with Petra, her 3 roommates and her pets in a cute house near Alberta Street, a place full of bars, cafés, bike rentals, organic groceries, arty gift shops... well you see, this kind of place. I spent two nights and one day, just the time to hang around in the City, downtown, Nob Hill... And I had so much fun at this theater play, Vagina's monologues, haha SO famous, it's played in France for 5 years and I waited to be in Portland to see it ; )

I really enjoyed Porland.

Petra's house (hope no mistake Petra!)

Always the same stuff

Powell's books, biggest library in US, even in the world I think.

Nice posters (I stole plenty of them...sorry)

Nooooooooo I can't beleive I missed him once more!!! It's fourth time!!!!

10$ for the Chinese garden? ha ha noo way I think I've seen enough in real China!

Always great architecture

Portland is know as "city of bridges" = happy happy happy

Introduction to Buffalo's grain elevators!

Urban parc

Structure!!

Great

Vegas, baby

I read books about it, saw movies, series, pictures, imitations... I had to check it out for real, and make my own picture of it: Las Vegas, baby, a dream! I took my first Greyhound bus from LA to Vegas, everybody told me some weird stories about Greyhound trips (Josh and Billy's last couchsurfer had his hair cut while he was asleep... seet), I wasn't disapointed. I sat near a ugly teenage girl who kept talking to me all way long, even if I had my headphones (fortunately she fell asleep). The seat behind me sat a big russian guy who said 10 times "I'm sick I'm gonna throw up I'm sick I'm gonna throw up.... Apart from those guys, the journey was amazing, the landscape were awesome (it even made me cry...). I arrived in Vegas around 2pm, I found my youth hostel which was a family house held by two young hippies with babies. I just dropped my bag and went straight to the Strip, so impatient! It was full of lights, tourists, buses, palaces, sounds that drive you nuts, colorfull capets, antique sculptures, fountains, paintings, shows, Chineses, nightclubs, fake stuff ... and free alcohol drinks!!!

Greyhound stop in the middle of nowhere

Playslist: Animal Collective "Daily Routine". It was so perfect, like I have dreamt of that moment. I was so happy.

Back to the civilization after 6 hours of nothing.

New York, New York Casino

Caesar's Palace

The Strip!!!

Where I lost my first dollar... but also where I got my first free drink! The beginning of a looong night getting drunk for free!

Treasure Island

The Venetian: craziest decors and architecture!

A real italian Palace!!

Wheel of fortune

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm inside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hahaha my vacation in Venice!

Trevi Fountain

Come and loose

The more drink I got the more awesome it is...

Beautiful flower-ceiling

Chinese style

I missed Paris...

Bellagio (Ocean's Eleven)

Hiiiii

Baguette, croissant, café...

Still so much to see, the strip is 7 miles long! But at 2 am after too many vodkas, I went back to the hostel... So much glitter so much crazyness, wonderland, I HAD to see that...

From the airport: arounf the Strip, there's nothing. I'm not even sure there's a city, a downtown.

In case you didn't loose enough money there are machines in the gate at the airport...