Sunday 29 June 2003
Sunday morning we went to visit an open house arrangement with new built houses. It was great fun to examine how the construction of buildings takes place in sunny California using frames of steel and wall of wood. In Scandinavia, we use mostly bricks for houses, but then again we do not have earthquakes and high temperatures at all.
We examined the luxury in housing mostly meant “European style” with heavy mahogany furniture, many carpets and grandiose staircases.
Everything was big, the kitchen was huge and the energy waste considerable. The price of the houses was about $5-7 million, which we found crazy, compared to quality and location. Here we were standing on plain field with no water or trees at all, actually a real desert. On the other hand, it was close to Silicon Valley, which obviously makes a market for expensive house everywhere nearby.
We used rest of the day by the pool together with Morten and the kids. Later we tried out Morten’s new gas barbeque, got a taste of barbeque the American style, and ended up drinking nice ice-teas with gin and gut drunk in short while. We returned late at night to our motel excited the coming weeks in Mexico. Now the adventure was to begin for real.