You keep what you kill

Can you believe it? After one week on Hawaii I have to say: it sucks. The weather is great, the landscape is beautiful in most parts, the fruits taste great, so why am I so pissed off? Well, it's even worse than Germany, everything is totally overregulated, everything is verboten, verboten, verboten because these sick and timid bastards are either worried about the LIABILITIES or are making sure that nobody crosses THEIR LAND. THEIR PROPERTY. No fucking trespassing. That's most important. So you can't hike anywhere. Fucking idiots. Fucking idiots. Fucking idiots. And the nice beaches? Forget it. We have not been able to get to any beach yet. It's all blocked by the ugly mega resorts. Fucking idiots. So we do what all Americans do: drive. Holiday in a fucking car. Get fat and die.

Well, what can  I say. This certainly is as much a sociological study as a vacation. We flew into Hilo on Saturday. Beautiful approach by plane. Baggage was there immediately and we went straight to the rental car counter across the street. If only all airports were so fast and relaxed. :-) I had booked a car through NKT, they got me a very good deal with Alamo, so definitely recommendable. We took off for Volcano Village straight away, a relatively short drive up the mountain. The vegetation is beautiful, as is the landscape most of the time - except for the patches where US civilization got involved. But more of that later. Volcano is tiny and we found very nice accommodation at the volcano Inn. Cheap, clean, in the rainforest. Spot on. Alas, the rainforest is not called rainforest for nothing, the clouds were so low we couldn't see much further than our own hand. So we had an excellent dinner instead at a place called Thai Thai. Really good, really spicy, authentic Thai, hard to...

Had a good night's rest in L.A., a very nice breakfast at the Daily Grill, very good service. :-) Now off to the airport again, two more flights and then we're in Hilo. Can't wait.

Wie ich aus den Nachrichten erfahren habe, nutzen Sie den Terroranschlag in Boston um Werbung in eigener Sache zu machen. Indem Sie mal wieder die Vorratsdatenspeicherung ins Spiel bringen. ich bitte Sie mir zu erläutern, inwiefern die Vorratsdatenspeicherung Sie beim Verhindern oder Aufklären der Terroranschlags auf den Boston Marathon unterstützen kann. Können  Sie nicht? Wundert mich nicht. Nachts ist es nämlich kälter als draußen. Und Sie sind einfach nur ein kleiner mieser deutscher Hinterbänkler. Ich kenne Leute, die würden Sie sogar einen kleinen Drecksfaschisten nennen, aber das würde ich natürlich nie tun. Bitte sterben Sie einfach und verschonen Sie uns mit ihrer "Sicherheitspolitik".  Vielen Dank.

I'm about to check out of my hotel and leave one of the strangest (and sickest) places I've ever been to. Crazy. Can't say I'm sad to leave. Just the opposite. Vegas kinda confirms all the negative stereotypes a European has with regards to the US. And yes, I'm certainly the wrong person for this town. Nevermind, rest in piece, I'm outta here!

Woke up too early but am going to be rewarded with a spectacular sunrise view from my hotel bed. Thank you Westin for the 14th floor east-facing room! Too bad I didn't bring my camera.  Well, I'm only going to be here for a few hours anyway, off to Vegas later today for the MarkLogic Conference, where I will be presenting tomorrow. So finger crossed that my cold is really on the way out. Would you please die, stupid cold? Thank you very much. Have to wait another hour before Flour opens, so time for some blogging. Google really sucks at this, sometimes you can't log in because of "cookie" although they are turned on and I can't post any pictures lately into posts. So I'm probably going to take this elsewhere when I find the time. Hah, that was a good one. Hawaii is coming up fast - 11 days to go until I can finally do some decent helicopter surfing. ;-) Cheers from the East Coast!