Goodbye San Francisco

Goodbye San Francisco, goodbye California. I have given you 4 months of my life. In return I have received many good friends, sunny days, some great adventures wonderful time. Yeah, it was hard at times to deal with you and your people, but I think you have given me more than you have taken.

I am definitely leaving a part of my heart here. This way I reserve the right to come and meet you some day.

Up the Irons – Iron Maiden at Concord, CA

Wooohooo. For the second time in my life I’m visiting an Iron Maiden show, and once more I’m convinced that they are one of the best band. There’s no such show, no such energy, and enthusiasm as they show on the scene.

Setlist:

1. The Wicker Man
2. Ghost of the Navigator
3. Wrathchild
4. El Dorado
5. Dance of Death
6. The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
7. These Colours Don’t Run
8. Blood Brothers
9. Wildest Dreams
10. No More Lies
11. Brave New World
12. Fear Of The Dark
13. Iron Maiden

Encore:

The Number of the Beast
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Running Free

Photo is shot by rnair

The support band were Dream Theater – another favorites of mine, but with extremely short set.  Just 6 songs, three of which we missed queuing to enter.  Anyways – I heard ‘Pull me under’. It still counts

Some new albums uploaded

Hey folks. Not having much time lately to drop by here. But thanks a lot to those of you sending me messages and keeping in touch. I want to share some new albums from USA trips:

1) I’ll start with the latest one – the Yosemite trip. ~HERE~ you can find a couple of pics from this two-day adventure with Bobi and Megi. Wonderful waterfalls, great picturesque rocks, beautiful nature. Dated June 5-6, 2010

2) The trip to the famous ’17 mile drive’ near Monterey, California. ~HERE~ is the short report from this closed circuit private property with many big houses, a great forest drive and closeness to the Pacific Ocean. Dated April 26th, 2010

3) The previous day I took my first trip to Santa Cruz over the scenic highway 1. ~HERE~ I took lots of short breaks to watch the ocean. Magnificent. Dated April 25th, 2010

4) The visit to the Danville museum of auto-history. ~HERE~ – many old good-looking cars, including my favourite there – Plymouth Fury, famous from the novell Christine, by Stephen King. Dated April 18th, 2010

5) My walk around the Mount Diablo park – ~HERE~. I got lost a little bit, taking a different trail than the one I originally wanted. In the end I had a good time around.  Dated April 17th, 2010

6) My first visit around San Francisco – a city of so many layers. ~HERE~. Rumen and Toni were so great to take me around for a whole day trip and showed me many of the famous things in San Francisco. Dated March 20th, 2010

7) The pics from the flight Amsterdam-San Francisco. ~HERE~. There are not many of them, but I stayed awake during the whole flight, watching the views, drinking Heineken (thanks KLM) and enjoying every minute of it. Date March 15th, 2010

Well, not too bad. For a newbie in US this is pretty good. I hope I’ll have some more to show till I get back to Bulgaria. Stay healthy all!

The center of Sillicon Valley… and me

This is just to show you I’m alive And photographed “inside” The Great Seal Of California in San Jose

Alright USA, here I come!

Monday, March 15th, 7AM – I’m flying on the route Sofia-Amsterdam-San Francisco. US, wait for me!

Some hope for this year’s Big Plans

I certainly have more hope for this year’s Elbrus after the last 40 days. I stopped drinking (only on rare occasions), no sweets, no soft drinks, no white flour and such things. Things are improving little by little – so far 6-7-8 kilograms down (not sure how much exactly). Although during New Year’s parties I think I had 4 more, so this is actually 3-4 down from before New Year. Still – something to start from. We’ll see where it ends

Stay healthy!

Winter Mousala trip

Another mountain trip. I guess this was my first serious challenge after my surgery. From Feb. 4th to Feb. 7th we were on a trip to Mousala and Malyovitsa.

Again I realize that I repeat the same mistakes over and over again. I still carry weight that is not needed, I never get a good sleep before a trip, I never hydrate properly. Can you guess what this results in? Muscle cramps… dizziness.

I couldn’t get to Mousala this time. Instead I just waited in the hut.

Anyways… lesson learned … I hope.

A day in Bucharest

It’s 26th of December… after Christmas. What do we do? We are already a couple of days off, holidays, drinking, eating – the usual. Well not for us – Me, Anatoli and Moni decided we could do a trip to Bucharest. A short walk, some shopping, etc. Do something different.

Here are some pictures from the trip:

AC/DC in Sofia, Bulgara – 14 May, 2010

wooohooo. This was officially announced minutes ago.

Waiting for Dio now

First snow in Ruse

A photo, taken just a minute ago – the first snow in Ruse. View from my window.

Snow in Ruse

In the upper left is my father’s car.