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Grand Canyon

Pictures from day 3 of the roadtrip: http://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/GrandCanyon#

Death Valley

I will write more about day 2 of the roadtrip when I have time. For now, only pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/DeathValley#

Yosemite

Picked up an almost brand new 2010 Prius (only 6000 miles on the odometer) at Hertz today, and headed east towards Yosemite National Park. 421.3 miles at an average speed of 45 mph and consumption of 49.8 mpg. That's 678 km and 4.72 l/100 km in metric.

San Francisco Coit Tower

Yesterday was rainy, and the forecast for tomorrow is wet too, so when the sun came out today we saw it as an opportunity to go see the Coit Tower.

San Francisco

I'm in San Francisco for the 54th annual meeting of the Biophysical Society. also on Picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/SanFrancisco# This is already my fifth BPS meeting, the previous ones were: 2005, Long Beach, CA 2006, Salt Lake City, UT (includes Bryce Canyon pictures) 2007, Baltimore, MD 2009, Boston, MA (see also more pictures here)

Tampere

In Tampere learning about lasers etc.

San Diego Zoo

USS Midway

Two years ago I only had time for this picture, but today I had a chance to properly see the USS Midway (see also here). It's easy to spend 3-4 hours on the ships various decks listening to the audio-guide. I could have done without the birds hovering over my lunch at the cafe, but [...]

Oulu

Joensuu

4:30 wake up, 5:15 taxi to airport, 6:15 plane to Joensuu, 7:05 arrive. Work. 19:25 plane home. 21:00 at home again. A long day, much coffee was needed.