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Well, don’t even try asking me how and why our second day could start that weird; I only knew that when I was woken up (by the sound of my dog Leo having a drink), my watch said that it was some minutes after four in the morning; after finding that I could not fall back asleep anyways and therefore getting up, I discovered that my computer on the other hand had the opinion of it being shortly after nine already. One of these watches had to be wrong - but which one? How does a blind person who is supposed to have a jetlag find out if it is early or rather late in the morning? I must say that I did struggle with this issue for a little bit, since not even the internet who could have for sure told me seemed to work in this very moment. In the end it was the phone, confirming my sad suspission: My computer was right; my other watch (including the alarm clock I had set) must have jumped back five hours somehow during the night and I found myself hardly having any time left before my bus would have gone.
Yes, this day did start up kind of turbulent - and unfortunately also without complimentary hotel breakfast But it still ended more than satisfying.

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OK, so Leo and I finally did succeed and are now already in a bus, on our way to Longbeach. Yesterday was not really overwhelming in providing events that would be worth being bloged about, but still there were some surprises here and there.
The object of this Tuesday for us was definitely The Chair or the seat. From early morning to latest evening, I had the oportunity to claim the ’service’ of dozens (feeling like hundreds) of them and to wait for something, me sitting on, Leo lying under them.

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Only some hours to go and it will finally be true: We, which is me (René), the most intelligent dog in the world (Leo) and our fat suitcase (whom we haven’t given a name yet) are taking off again, this time heading towards the american continent - to the California area to be more exact - where we are going to at least visit the cities of San diego, Long Beach (both in the United States) and Ensenada (in Mexico). The trip, which seems to have been booked kind of too spontaneously and which is, by now, everything but entirely planed, will probably cause lots of excitement, which - provided that we shall find internet access at all over there - I will write about daily on this blog.
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After the overwhelming succes of the Blinde Insel (The Blind Island) project, the crew of the Grossen Halle association has decided to spontaneously do three additional nights of serving dinner in the dark. But even with those, on March 30th, it will be the last time (this year at least) where one gets to enjoy that culinary experience in the dark. As for me, I did have my last Island shift on last Saturday already; all that remains for me to do is to say thank you all of you who took the risk letting me be their waiter throughout one night.

But now, what are we going to do with those who never got to enjoy to be on our limited guest list at all?

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YEP! Rhiannon Oehlke, which is my girlfriend, just started her own picture blog at schlapillon.com. She, who actually is from Wisconsin, is spending at least one year in Switzerland right now and shares her traveling impressions with the world by publishing her pictures, taken with her digital camera!

Besides mountains and Swiss traditions, it is your ultimate chance of seeing her papillon dog Maria, some more pictures of Leo and I as well as herself.

So if you ever wondered how she looks that I am in love with or if you want to know how an American can feel over in Europe, I urge you to check it out right now, comment on the pictures and tune in frequently, for the adventure just begun!