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I don’t know if I can recall this memory in any good way, because it’s so…. strange… but I’ll give it a try!

We were visiting some people we know in a forreign country. There was a lot of unusual strange weird things going on around that family and our visit there, but I’m not going to tell you all about that now, simply because it was too strange to even write down!!! I know I’m making you curious here, but I’m sorry… The full story would take about ages to write and you would still not understand a thing - we still don’t understand ourselves.

There were no seightseeing to talk about there, we still don’t count our visit there as we actually have visit that country. Anyway, one evening they were taken us out for a ride in their car and we were grateful to come out and at least see SOMETHING. Even though we at that time were a little bit frustrated of the situation, to put it mildly. We had travelled so far away to get there and for what…?

To begin with, they handled over a whiskey bottle to us in the back seat. (The same bottle Balvenie he got from us as a gift when we arrived, we know that’s his favourite brand). To drink in the car. They wouldn’t have any themselves, it was for us. OK, I can give them a little bit credit to say that it may had something to do with the fact that I had a tooth ache at the time, but that was not the whole reason. No, I’m sure that, at least one of them wanted something to accuse us of. And that was: us having drinking habits…

I really had a bad tooth ache, but we both also were stunned over the situation and quite frustrated, dejected over the whole stay there. So, I guess we both simultaneously just had enough, we started to drink whiskey in the car. I don’t even like that whiskey! It always the first time for everything. I’ve never been drinking in a car before, except from maybe some beer in my youth.

The main reason for driving around was that they should look at some house prospects. They wanted a new house. That was OK for us, if it had been one of the reasons for taking us out, but that was about the only thing we did. Driving around in the darkness looking at small streets and houses that we hardly could see anything of…

And drinking a lot of whiskey…

What could we do? We were tired of not doing anything, not having a nice time, so we got a little drunk. We decided to have fun anyway and we did. It’s a matter of attitude, ha? The only thing is: I don’t think that they understood that we had fun at them, how they could do this to us! Sometimes I couldn’t look at Mr Lifecruiser, because I may have reveiled the whole truth of why we were laughing so much under that actually so boring trip. We were even singing, despite none of us have any good voices, that was fun.

It truly was a hot car - because of the whiskey steams from the back seat ;-)

And yes, we were actually accused of being alcoholics later and for drinking beers and having fun in the evenings!!!

That was the first time in our lifes that we actually have been ACCUSED of having fun….

Whispering a secret: Actually we did have one habit that alcoholics have: we did hide a bottle of alcohol… It was that old bottle of Dom Perignon Champagne that we attended to give them as a gratitude for our stay there. We decided to keep it for ourselves, they wasn’t worthy of it, so the bottle flew back home with us again!

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At last, done with our Flickr Pro account!!!

We have a lot of photos to choose between so I suspect that we’ll have a lot to do for a long time ahead sorting out the good ones and uploading all of them to flickr….

The first ones out is from our journey to the guest ranch in Paraguay and Iguazu falls, after that it will be a few from Brazil and then from our other passed journeys too.

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During the year of 2004 and 2005 we did quite a lot of travelling. It was our intention to write something about them here, but we simply have been to busy. We’ll se when we have the time for that.

We will be publishing a photo gallery shortly, so keep your eyes open for that!

This will be a summarize instead, just to mention where we’ve been.

Here’s the travel list of 2004:

- Dröbak/Oslo, Norway, 5 days
- Helsinki, Finland, 48 hours cruise
- Fårö/Gotland, Sweden, 1 week
- Milano, Italy, 4 days
- Algarve, Portugal, 1 week
- Paris, France, 4 days
- Fårö/Gotland, Sweden, 1 week
- Reykjavik, Iceland, 8 days *)
- Fårö/Gotland, Sweden, 4 weeks
- Gothenborg, Sweden, 1 day
- Aalborg, Denmark, 3 days
- Sylt, Germany, 2 days
- Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 day
- Mullsjö, Sweden, 1 day
- East coast/Higlands, Scotland, 8 days *)
- Crete, Greece, 2 weeks *)

*) The favourites from 2004 (except from Fårö which always will have a special place in our hearts!)

NOTE: The other trips were very nice they too, we just sorted out the absolute favourites. The lists is sequenced from the beginning of the year and forward.

It was our intention to go to Malaysia at a Spa and Golf resort for 2 weeks and The Philippines for 2 and a half month in the beginning of 2005 too, but after we (both!) had pneumonia and the tsunami came in, we cancelled the trip. It took us a quite a while to recover, we have never ever been so sick in our whole lives.

The travel list of 2005:

- London, England, 4 days
- Fuerteventura, Spain, 2 weeks
- Amsterdam/Haarlem, Holland, 4 days
- Fårö/Gotland, Sweden, 1 week
- West coast/Higlands, Scotland, 2 weeks *)
- Fårö/Gotland, Sweden, 6 weeks
- Cleveland/Ohio, U.S, 1 month
- Caacupé/Asuncíon, Paraguay, 14 days *)
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3 days
- Natal, Brazil, 14 days

*) The favourites from 2005 (except from Fårö which always will have a special place in our hearts! We can repeate this how many times you want :-)

All trips except from the one to U.S were planned by ourselves, searching for all the information and booked at the internet. We don’t count the trip to U.S because that was a combination of visiting family and business, so there were no exploring of the country involved there. We wish to go to the U.S again sometime to explore at least some of the country and enjoy it.

Now we’re planning to stay at home for a while. We think… You’ll never know with us, suddenly we may take off somewhere again. But we have some important stuff to take care of this year, so it may not be as much travel as earlier, if we’re unlucky…

There are a lot of wonderful places were we want to go!!!

Miss ass Lifecruiser has reported that she arrived safe in Chicago, nothing *b* happened, no hijacking of the airplane, no airplane crash - nothing - except from a little bit of stomach pain. (We think she was a little nervous to meet her Love again :-)

She did go there with suitcases that were totally stuffed, so we wonder how long she will be there this time….?

WARNING: Miss ass Lifecruiser is on her way here! Everything can happen…

Just thought that it would be fair with a little warning. It always happens things around her. Not her fault, it just does for some strange unkown reason.

I wonder what will happen this time…. ? *nervous wreck*

Remember what happened the last time? I certainly does, it left a ugly scar on me!

Better not to think about it. We are going to have SO FUN!

After all, she is flying back to Chicago, Illinois again, to her Love and we really don’t know when we are going to able to meet again.

So if we are not writing new post in the same pace as usual, there is 2 alternatives:

1. We are having way to fun to have time to write.
2. Unusual things are happening us that keeps us occupied.

Both alternatives actually is bound to happen…..

Let us introduce you to one of our many PETS. This pet is a very very bad boy.

He humped Mr Lifecruisers leg one morning in the kitchen, obvious craving for some pet-thing… Luckily I heard Mr Lifecruisers scream for help and rescued him.

We suppose that it happened because he had a wild party all night long with a lot of his petbuddys, suffering from a bad hang over and - obviously - a lack of girls at the party.

There was his petbuddys, totally beaten by all the drinks, laying all over the floor, none of them were possible to talk any sense to. As usual, he only have buddys like that.

We are very concern about where he is going. *shaking our heads like every concerned parent would do*

Say Hello to Harry Petter caught at the very act:

OK, it might not be the best shot we taken, but how easy is it to take the picture when Mr Lifecruiser is shaking his leg all the time to get rid of the humping pet…?

This is a very special pet and he is rather demanding, we have to watch him all the time, he is always up to something. Come to think about it, maybe he is influenced by me…? *scary thought*

Once when we were in Scotland riding The Jacobite steam train, he was totally freaking out of control. He had set in his mind to step up on the roof on the train and was humping Mr Lifecruisers leg again!

OK, Mr Lifecruiser was on his way up on the roof too, but hey, there is a difference between them. I think….

So, there was Mr Lifecruiser, hanging out of the train halfway up on the roof, Harry Petter humping his leg as hard as he could, screaming about justice and me humping (?!) Mr Lifecruisers other leg, desperate to not let him go up there!!!

Ahh, that was a sight for gods, I almost thought that they was going to make a new movie about it ;-)

Come to think about it, maybe there is a movie about it somewhere, there is a lot of people with videocameras sneaking around everywhere nowadays… Probably we are just now shown in Japan somewhere…

Of course, my only concern was that Mr Lifecruiser would fall off the train and hurt him self. I mean, if so, who would carrie all my luggage for the rest of the trips? A wife always have to think practical.

Can you please recommend any sort of retreatment for this bad behaviour from him? Ehh.. I mean them…?

Now we have exchanged our front page photos we had earlier against new ones taken on our journey in Paraguay and Brazil.

Nothing wrong with the old ones, but we like to see the new ones for a while - until we take new ones on another journey probably :-)

Every photo on this blog is taken by us (copyright Lifecruiser of course) or at least with our camera, sometimes we get help, for example when we are going to be on the photo both of us or when we were on the horseback in Paraguay.

NOTE:
You do know that we have the front page photo changes randomly every time you enter this blog?

Try it by make a click on the front page photo. There is five different ones to random with.

Back in town again, since friday evening actually, but we had to sleep and rest a bit after our long journey before we could find the strength to write something here. Pheeeew.

We can not say that we like the weather we find here in Sweden… cold and moisty, rainy yesterday. We are freezing. Coming from 32 degrees celsius and with 29 degrees in the sea in Brazil - how could we….????

WE WANT TO GO BACK!!!

At least to Paraguay, we liked that part of our trip the most even though we did not have the sea there. The stay at the guestranch were a wonderful experience, hard to find the right words for it.

As you already guessed, it was hard for us to write during the trip, trouble to find internet connection and have the time to sit down and write too.

We will write all about it now, but it will take some time for us. It is so much to tell about this journey! And we have to sort our the best pictures to show you - we took almost 1000 pictures!!!!

So please have some patience with us before you nag on us that you want to read about it here….

Been at home for two and a half week now, a long time ;-) Time to travel again!!!!

This time our journey goes to:

1) Paraguay, Asuncíon
2) Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
3) Brazil, Natal

The flight there will take us about 21 hours, pheeeww…. Hopefully we will sleep on the plane, because we are really tired. It is hard to get in bed in the right time in the evenings!

Our first stay is at a ranch with cattle and horses, where there probably is no internet connection. It includes a shorter trip to the famous waterfalls Foz de Iguazu.

The second stay is at a hotel at Copacabana in Rio with a couple of guided seightseeings, for 3 days.

The third stay is at a hotel at the very popular beach Ponta Negra in Natal. Where we shall relax for 14 days after all stress lately. They have 300 sun days during a year - do I need to say more…..?

Maybe we will come back the 9th of December as entirely new people :-)

We will try to post reports here during the trip.

Read our earlier post about the trip

Probably you are curious about how the search for the ranch owner in New Mexico are going?

We have not had the time to write about it, because we have been extremely busy with the searches!!!

As you understand he is not found yet…..

We have contacted all kind of instances to get hold of him or some information about him: TV, Radio, Newspapers, Brokers that sells that kind of ranches, Websites of all kind - not only about horses and some more instances.

Today there is a newspapers classifieds Ad coming out in New Mexico about it, we will see what it can do to help.

It is a little bit difficult to leave our friend by her self now when we are going away, she has been really ill (a bad cold with fever) but is better now, thankfully - otherwise it had been awful to leave…

And she has get some connections there too now, so she is not totally alone any more.

Read about our earlier post about the search

Swedish women now in New Mexico seeking ranch owner with Paint horses!

Feel like doing something really good TODAY?

Serious help is wanted to find a newly started ranch with Paint horses with an owner named Tom somewhere in New Mexico. (He even has some kind of Laundry business at the side of the ranch).

She sadly enough dropped the details about this man/ranch, who offered a very good job with horses.

Do you know of this man/ranch or some instances that maybe can be to her help?

Please send a link to this website to anyone that may know anything!

This is a true story of a women with maximum unluck and YOU may be able to make the big difference for once in her unlucky life.

It is a serious request to help a person with an amazing personality, not just some crazy idea.

Can you support her with some information of any kind?

Maybe even sponsor a transport to perform the seeking? It may be by car or even by horse if needed!

Do you know of any newspapers that could be interested in a story about her seeking?

Any tips or other help is very much appreciated!!!

Please write a comment here URGENTLY, or use the contact form under the menu choice About.

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Pheeeeeew. Not awake since we came from U.S. We have heard of the Jetlag feeling, but this is something more… We slept for about 22 hours the first night (?) @ home!!!! Then we could not sleep the second night at all, me with a terrible toothache.

Running around visiting our absolute favourite persons, the dentists and doctors. OK, I can understand that you do not believe us. Yes, we lied there, they are not our favourites.

We even have been able to stumble to the vaccination center to take the shots needed before next trip, more sleepy than awake, so we can only hope that we said the right things and got the right shots….

We are mentally very ill at the moment. (Do not say that we always are, this is much more serious than usual - promise - it is possible even though it sounds unbelievable!)

Tonight we have a birthday party to attend (Mrs Lifecruisers nephew), I hope they will get some sense out of us and not just see us like wandering zooombies.

If we are not back again, you will know for sure that we have been hospitalized in some mental hospital ;-)

@home again! Pheeew! The flight went well except from that the seats in the plane from Newark to Stockholm with Malaysian Airlaines was created for shorter people so it was very uncomfortable. (The staff and service on the plane was excellent though).

And when Mrs Lifecruisers brother should pick us up at the airport with our car, the car broke down (!) and we had to tow the car to the car repairshop, which took us a while, yes. Serious engine problems, that will cost a lot of money to repair. *heavy sigh*

Where we tired? YES x millions!

That is why we have been able to sleep for at least 22 hours since we came home yesterday!!! Unbelievable! And we still are tired…. *yawning big*

There is a lot of things to be taken care of after being away for a month…

So I guess that you have to wait a little before we can write about our stay in the U.S.

CU soon again….

There have been some really nasty thunderstorm here one night, it went on for several hours and it was raining one day. They said that it was the biggest for a long time now. Of course - I was here with my weather spell on me! *lol*

Other from that it has been quite good weather - if I dare to say that?! We have been taking daily walks an really just relax in the sun.

Went to a couple of shopping centers too, found some jeans and shirts but we are not done with the shopping yet! We must have some more clothes to put on us.

It has been really nice to visit all the relatives here, they all live very well here and are so nice to us. We get spoiled with a lot of good dinners, oh my, maybe we must shop for bigger clothes soon…

Yesterday we went to the Niagara Falls, by bus. They have this good offer, $25 for the trip and then you got a card with $20 to play in the casino and $5 to get some food. There were us and a bunch of oldies. We really did fit in the group…. *not*

We had to go up early in the morning so we did most of our sleep on the bus there. Did see some nice scenery on the way too.

Then we hit the Seneca casino there. That is a big one. Playing around in the Niagara area for sure. Did not win big though, did not play enough we think. You should see the pokerroom there, it was full of players.

The buffet lunch was fantastic, there is nothing to complain about there, so much different food and desserts to choose between!

And the Niagara falls! What can we say other than it was really magificent! Fantastic, some really great falls! It look almost unreal with that big rainbow over it. Maybe the treasure at its end was were the casino was?!

Our only concern was how to be able to take pictures from all angles when it was water dropping from all over. The wind brought a lot of waterdrops like it was raining.

At 56 metres (180 ft) high, the American Falls is slightly higher than its Canadian counterpart. Its crestline is 328 metres (1075 ft) wide. We never went over to the Canadian part which was a pity.

They say that The American Falls look spectacular at night, when it is lit with various combinations of coloured lights, so we want to go there some other time and stay over the night.

So we really recommend to go there, but to stay for a night and even go over to the Canadian side of it. Maybe even take the boat trip to really be able to see it close! That would be something!

Read about Niagara Falls here