Arrivo a New Orleans in Louisiana
Fall 2007
We Arkahansas , the sale of cars is always visible ... huge fleet,
the edge of each small town even as Arkadelphia we are about to leave.
These fleets make me a little
sadness with all the fast food on the road.
The landscape from now on will be a little repetitive
we pulled over interstate ''which is as if it were
a corridor of fir and cedar ... moltobello ,
but too long ...
We enter the northern half of Louisiana
day, the landscape of North
does not change much compared to ' Arkahansas West,
that change, the population here is more diverse with the presence of many African Americans.
We would like to see something historic,
leave the main road to Alexandria and
for Nachitachez , but it all seems very new, just built, as if the centers, while retaining old names, they were gone and in their place there were new houses, a little anonymous, mostly single-family. The rooms are very modern exterior, but inside is passato.Forse keep the memory of a past way too quick but intense, that has had little about these people who seem ready to change.
Old photos, guns, horse sculptures, mannequins of Indians, checkered tablecloths and preparations for the celebration of Halloween , colorful gourds, hanging skeletons, colored lights and dream catcher ...
The feeling is that everything is demolished and rebuilt with no style,
urbanization is becoming a priority and cut the roots, perhaps too shallow.
I see many houses on wheels ... even a stone. The billboards advertise
prepared food and suggest ways to earn fast money "Do you Want to earn much money ?", Or invite you to easily get funding.
Louisiana descended from the north to south, toward New Orleans.
This state is also called " Pellican State" we speak English but you hear a lot about French and English, here use the term "parish " instead of " country" to call a country.
It 'a very populous state which is affected by both French and English cultural influence.
E ' become an interesting area, at some point in the history of unification of American States, especially in the presence of a major river like the Mississippi .
Appalachian Mountains to the east were transposed to a barrier between east and west in the States while possession of the port of New Orleans and the practicability of the river, passed over the problem of internal connections (I continue to study while Simone guide. ..
The capital of Louisiana is Baton Rouge and eat a good chicken fried ... More
through the south and the landscape becomes more swampy and tropical vegetation, we get more and more
the delta of the Mississippi and the Port of Orleans
come to town, passing on a narrow bridge in the middle of the lagoon, we begin to see farms and houses with large gardens and colonnades ... French bread, coffee au lait with bigne ', music in the street ... Europe and Africa are mixed with the dynasty of
New Orleans ...
City unforgettable and unimaginable after all these miles.
wonder and joy.
We drove 3200 miles. (5760 km!)
the French Quarter
I do blonde tonight! The weather is beautiful
temperature as well!
these wrought-iron balconies are wonderful
play jazz on the street
there is also tram here
the city is full of colorful shops
this shirt may have too many flowers for my dad!
street artist ... good eh! Building, maintaining the outstanding balance
necklaces glinting on the balconies become the game of the evening when they start from passersby who collect them and wear them ... Yes in French Quarter at night there is great rejoicing, singing all dancing crowd the balconies throwing necklaces and especially drink alcohol freely in the streets.
Across America 's strictly forbidden to drink on the street, who drinks beer is bottled in glass must be removed in a room and do not show themselves for not giving a wrong example, especially to children. In
BURBON Street in New Orleans you can drink for the road and this combined with the music of the premises along the street and the glittering necklaces around the neck of men and women, creates a colorful and whimsical, certainly bit excessive, but fun.
go by policemen on horseback and people continue undisturbed revelry, because in this way everything is allowed around the corner ... back to the rules.
many memories come to mind for each one hundred words that I write more ... I do sorridere.Ancora few days and we'll be Miami ... UAW !!
as they say here every two to three ...
Friday, November 9, 2007
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Plans For Street Legal For Sand Rails
Verso il caldo del sud
In Colorado there Pikes Peak would go to a summit of the Rocky Mountains, has to be very scenic as they say here, but sin ... a sheriff with the star we do not recommend the road to Pikes Peak and the first snow in the evening you will go below zero, Okay we understand it, the Rocky Mountains just do not want us to take you anywhere in the ... Pass by a shop that sells ornaments for Christmas, I took them all away ... as in Lubeck, where there were large wooden boxes divided on compartments with all possible tree ornaments and nativity ...
instead bought two beautiful Omer Simpson,del resto non sono poi tanto lontana da Springfield...
Poi via verso sud, sempre per correre dietro al sole e nel primo pomeriggio siamo in New Mexico!!!
Anche questa terra è estremamente vasta, non si vedono i confini all'orizzonte, siamo su un altipiano piatto e vediamo mandrie felici,daini e cavalli.
Siamo sull'interstatale 64, ancora con la ferrovia accanto.La strada è quasi deserta come il panorama, noi chiacchieriamo, ascoltiamo la musica e ci riposiamo nelle aree di servizio,ad un certo punto vediamo il nome di un paese: Capulin...disabitato.Il sole sta calando la luce è irreale, la macchina fotografica non funziona, ci riempiamo gli occhi, e ci ritroviamo seduti su una panchina verde, Wood, in Capulin (country regularly on the card), front porch with an old grocery store, closed.
Then after a bit of mileage out of nowhere a building, called Sierra Restaurant is worth a visit ... and of course everything is sold at a few dollars as if they were selling out, I see lots of small souvenir shop remained in the now half-empty ... girl behind the counter was smiling and lives here in the desert must have good character ... I think ... Every so often comes with the hat by some factor cawboy and orders a coffee, sitting at ...
At sunset we are in the small town of Clayton, eat in an old hotel with a saloon ... the atmosphere is authentic, the town lives around this venue, tutti bevono birra e portano il cappello...L'edificio è mantenuto in buono stato,vedo le vecchie foto appese alle pareti e un pianoforte che ancora funziona, tutto è di legno, guardo la strada e immagino i cavalli con le redini attaccate ai pali che sostengono la tettoia di legno. Alle finestre tende bianche di pizzo...mangiamo cibo messicano, pasta di mais ricoperta di formaggio fuso e sugo di carne, tortillias e birra.Peccato non ho le foto di questo luogo magico...
Il New Mexico è definito anche lo "Stato Spagnolo", è il nome dato dagli spagnoli ai territori a nord ovest del Rio Grande.La capitale è Santa Fè a 2000 metri di quota.Questa terra è stata conquistata dal popolo indiano chiamato Pueblo che anche attualmente lo abita.
The annexation to the United States has been slow and it took place in several phases, the eastern part of New Mexico is now the state of Arizona. (Just in this land detonated the first atomic bomb in '45, is still a area of \u200b\u200bnuclear laboratories)
The motto of this land is "Land of Enchantment" (land of enchantment)
These mottoes of which I write are always written well plates on cars of different states!
Clayton is near the border with Texas.
I think of Paul, a dear friend who now lives over here in Italy, we can also send us an e-mail because the Best Western to stay always have the option of connecting to the internet ... but meet with Paul is not, Texas is huge, as an extension comes after the 'Alaska and is also very popolato.E' the state in which Bush was born, is the most conservative of America and is also the state in which the sentence Death occurs most often.
His motto is "Lone Star State" (Lone Star), its capital is Austin.
The landscape is flat and monotonous and there curious about the many oil wells and the big machines that extract crude oil and the large silos on the road, sometimes a plant or a truck.
if you look at the map of the USA can see that being enough to the north the road soon leads in Oklahoma, it seems to go downhill ... we go down!
In Oklaoma cambia fuso orario per la seconda volta +1 ora verso l'occidente...sempre più lontani da Tokyo che è nei nostri pensieri ogni giorno.
Sì, siamo felici di questo viaggio eppure abbiamo il mal di Giappone e nessuno ci aveva detto di questa possibilità...tutti sappiamo che esiste il mal d'Africa... ma nulla di più.Pensiamo alla nostra casa di Tokyo e non solo io, anche Simone che normalmente non soffre di malinconie...Mi tranquillizza sentire che è un sentimento condiviso.
In Oklahoma molto sole e vento, alla stazione di servizio mi compro un paio di occhiali rossi e un portachiavi con le lettere OK!
Un camionista ci avvicina e ci dice:"where are you guys headed? "
(where you're going guys?) look at the map with him and gives us some consiglio.Io still understand too little, but I try a lot, definitely my English has improved, but I still grind listen ...
Panorama: red earth, low hills, wide meadows, cows, cows, cows ...
We are the famous Interstate 40 quella che avremmo imboccato a SanFrancisco se non avessimo avuto la sfortunata idea di passare per Yellowstone...
Vediamo nel cielo un grandissimo sciame di uccelli sembra una migrazione.
Arriviamo a Oklaoma City e abbiamo percorso 2270 miglia cioè km 2270x1,6=km 3632 (dato che ogni miglio terrestre corrisponde a 1600 metri!!!! )Per mio padre,tanto lo sa.....(MIGLIO: dal latino milia passuum mille passi...) da non confondere con il miglio marino che corrisponde a circa 1800 metri
In Oklahoma ci sono più di 200 laghi artificiali e non, è uno stato utilizzato come riserva indiana già dalla prima metà dell'800. Le riserve indiane sono in realtà luoghi di deportazione, esistono su tutto il American soil today, but especially in Oklahoma, perhaps because it is a land where we could and can exercise more control than on the mountains of New Mexico, where many tribes preferred to live. And 'one of the six states that separates America from western Europe, it is located on the Frontier Strip, the line from North Dakota down to here. It 'a mainly agricultural, there are many roads will be to divert the trail and get to the farms that can be seen from far away ... or even the reserves that are designated as tourist sites ... We went up to Oklahoma City capital, and we stopped in a Best Western wonderful ...
Like all Best Western is located on the outskirts the city, is about swimming, is very green and the pool is wonderful as well as the 'whirlpool and sauna.
inevitably remind the Japanese onsen since it is early for dinner, we enjoy everything, including the mutual massage japan ... docet! Great enjoyment
evening with dinner served in your room virtually by the pool ... not to mention the breakfast that morning I will take at least a kilo ... but I can not resist ...
I can do a bit of washing machines that are basically a fun after so many hours in the car ... and then change the dollars in coins from a quarter I can buy the detergent to the machine and operation as well as the washing machine also the dryer ... and laundry! all done in an hour ... a real game! This Best Western you can serve drinks and coffee will, in short all night the pace back and forth, while Simon enjoyed all lying on the king bed, watching the Monday Night (evening of football) on TV.
We are very relaxed, the climate is wonderful. The next day
you have to start and I stop here for three seasons at least ... We must continue to the east, the machine must be returned in time Oct. 14 in Miami, we are at 7 and we have yet to cross the Arkansas, Louisiana and Florida. ..
Arkansans is also called "The Natural State" is its motto "Ruling Popolus" Little Rock.E its capital is' the country where he was born Bill Clinton, specifically in the town of Hope is in our way and you think ... has lived in Hot Springs (Arkansas could not even give up a town Sprins ....) We still see lakes, forests and Mississippi that borders the state on the east.
We are tired, we decide to stay in Hot Spring which is described as a beautiful city ever ... decisione fu più sfortunata...ma noi ridiamo...Il navigatore si sbaglia come tutte le macchine e ci dà questo luogo vicino in termini di tempo...Dopo un bellissimo tragitto in mezzo ai pini e agli aceri che dura almeno un'ora, arriviamo in un luogo, per l'appunto Hot Springs, che rientra in un progetto residenziale in costruzione...ruspe ovunque dopo il bosco e la strada piena di curve...Scappiamo, ma non ci andrà molto meglio arrivando ad Arkadelphia...Best Western di decima categoria. Buona la cena a base di steak in un ristorante tipico, bello anche se fa parte di una catena che si chiama cracker barrel, con negozietto annesso, sedie a dondolo di legno dipinte di rosso e dama sul tavolo per giocare sul terrazzo esterno...
Si dorme e si guida....io poco...
con occhiali rossi....Simone con cappello rosso
se Simone riuscirà a caricare qualche video potrete ridere un pò...
In Colorado there Pikes Peak would go to a summit of the Rocky Mountains, has to be very scenic as they say here, but sin ... a sheriff with the star we do not recommend the road to Pikes Peak and the first snow in the evening you will go below zero, Okay we understand it, the Rocky Mountains just do not want us to take you anywhere in the ... Pass by a shop that sells ornaments for Christmas, I took them all away ... as in Lubeck, where there were large wooden boxes divided on compartments with all possible tree ornaments and nativity ...
instead bought two beautiful Omer Simpson,del resto non sono poi tanto lontana da Springfield...
Poi via verso sud, sempre per correre dietro al sole e nel primo pomeriggio siamo in New Mexico!!!
Anche questa terra è estremamente vasta, non si vedono i confini all'orizzonte, siamo su un altipiano piatto e vediamo mandrie felici,daini e cavalli.
Siamo sull'interstatale 64, ancora con la ferrovia accanto.La strada è quasi deserta come il panorama, noi chiacchieriamo, ascoltiamo la musica e ci riposiamo nelle aree di servizio,ad un certo punto vediamo il nome di un paese: Capulin...disabitato.Il sole sta calando la luce è irreale, la macchina fotografica non funziona, ci riempiamo gli occhi, e ci ritroviamo seduti su una panchina verde, Wood, in Capulin (country regularly on the card), front porch with an old grocery store, closed.
Then after a bit of mileage out of nowhere a building, called Sierra Restaurant is worth a visit ... and of course everything is sold at a few dollars as if they were selling out, I see lots of small souvenir shop remained in the now half-empty ... girl behind the counter was smiling and lives here in the desert must have good character ... I think ... Every so often comes with the hat by some factor cawboy and orders a coffee, sitting at ...
At sunset we are in the small town of Clayton, eat in an old hotel with a saloon ... the atmosphere is authentic, the town lives around this venue, tutti bevono birra e portano il cappello...L'edificio è mantenuto in buono stato,vedo le vecchie foto appese alle pareti e un pianoforte che ancora funziona, tutto è di legno, guardo la strada e immagino i cavalli con le redini attaccate ai pali che sostengono la tettoia di legno. Alle finestre tende bianche di pizzo...mangiamo cibo messicano, pasta di mais ricoperta di formaggio fuso e sugo di carne, tortillias e birra.Peccato non ho le foto di questo luogo magico...
Il New Mexico è definito anche lo "Stato Spagnolo", è il nome dato dagli spagnoli ai territori a nord ovest del Rio Grande.La capitale è Santa Fè a 2000 metri di quota.Questa terra è stata conquistata dal popolo indiano chiamato Pueblo che anche attualmente lo abita.
The annexation to the United States has been slow and it took place in several phases, the eastern part of New Mexico is now the state of Arizona. (Just in this land detonated the first atomic bomb in '45, is still a area of \u200b\u200bnuclear laboratories)
The motto of this land is "Land of Enchantment" (land of enchantment)
These mottoes of which I write are always written well plates on cars of different states!
Clayton is near the border with Texas.
I think of Paul, a dear friend who now lives over here in Italy, we can also send us an e-mail because the Best Western to stay always have the option of connecting to the internet ... but meet with Paul is not, Texas is huge, as an extension comes after the 'Alaska and is also very popolato.E' the state in which Bush was born, is the most conservative of America and is also the state in which the sentence Death occurs most often.
His motto is "Lone Star State" (Lone Star), its capital is Austin.
The landscape is flat and monotonous and there curious about the many oil wells and the big machines that extract crude oil and the large silos on the road, sometimes a plant or a truck.
if you look at the map of the USA can see that being enough to the north the road soon leads in Oklahoma, it seems to go downhill ... we go down!
In Oklaoma cambia fuso orario per la seconda volta +1 ora verso l'occidente...sempre più lontani da Tokyo che è nei nostri pensieri ogni giorno.
Sì, siamo felici di questo viaggio eppure abbiamo il mal di Giappone e nessuno ci aveva detto di questa possibilità...tutti sappiamo che esiste il mal d'Africa... ma nulla di più.Pensiamo alla nostra casa di Tokyo e non solo io, anche Simone che normalmente non soffre di malinconie...Mi tranquillizza sentire che è un sentimento condiviso.
In Oklahoma molto sole e vento, alla stazione di servizio mi compro un paio di occhiali rossi e un portachiavi con le lettere OK!
Un camionista ci avvicina e ci dice:"where are you guys headed? "
(where you're going guys?) look at the map with him and gives us some consiglio.Io still understand too little, but I try a lot, definitely my English has improved, but I still grind listen ...
Panorama: red earth, low hills, wide meadows, cows, cows, cows ...
We are the famous Interstate 40 quella che avremmo imboccato a SanFrancisco se non avessimo avuto la sfortunata idea di passare per Yellowstone...
Vediamo nel cielo un grandissimo sciame di uccelli sembra una migrazione.
Arriviamo a Oklaoma City e abbiamo percorso 2270 miglia cioè km 2270x1,6=km 3632 (dato che ogni miglio terrestre corrisponde a 1600 metri!!!! )Per mio padre,tanto lo sa.....(MIGLIO: dal latino milia passuum mille passi...) da non confondere con il miglio marino che corrisponde a circa 1800 metri
In Oklahoma ci sono più di 200 laghi artificiali e non, è uno stato utilizzato come riserva indiana già dalla prima metà dell'800. Le riserve indiane sono in realtà luoghi di deportazione, esistono su tutto il American soil today, but especially in Oklahoma, perhaps because it is a land where we could and can exercise more control than on the mountains of New Mexico, where many tribes preferred to live. And 'one of the six states that separates America from western Europe, it is located on the Frontier Strip, the line from North Dakota down to here. It 'a mainly agricultural, there are many roads will be to divert the trail and get to the farms that can be seen from far away ... or even the reserves that are designated as tourist sites ... We went up to Oklahoma City capital, and we stopped in a Best Western wonderful ...
Like all Best Western is located on the outskirts the city, is about swimming, is very green and the pool is wonderful as well as the 'whirlpool and sauna.
inevitably remind the Japanese onsen since it is early for dinner, we enjoy everything, including the mutual massage japan ... docet! Great enjoyment
evening with dinner served in your room virtually by the pool ... not to mention the breakfast that morning I will take at least a kilo ... but I can not resist ...
I can do a bit of washing machines that are basically a fun after so many hours in the car ... and then change the dollars in coins from a quarter I can buy the detergent to the machine and operation as well as the washing machine also the dryer ... and laundry! all done in an hour ... a real game! This Best Western you can serve drinks and coffee will, in short all night the pace back and forth, while Simon enjoyed all lying on the king bed, watching the Monday Night (evening of football) on TV.
We are very relaxed, the climate is wonderful. The next day
you have to start and I stop here for three seasons at least ... We must continue to the east, the machine must be returned in time Oct. 14 in Miami, we are at 7 and we have yet to cross the Arkansas, Louisiana and Florida. ..
Arkansans is also called "The Natural State" is its motto "Ruling Popolus" Little Rock.E its capital is' the country where he was born Bill Clinton, specifically in the town of Hope is in our way and you think ... has lived in Hot Springs (Arkansas could not even give up a town Sprins ....) We still see lakes, forests and Mississippi that borders the state on the east.
We are tired, we decide to stay in Hot Spring which is described as a beautiful city ever ... decisione fu più sfortunata...ma noi ridiamo...Il navigatore si sbaglia come tutte le macchine e ci dà questo luogo vicino in termini di tempo...Dopo un bellissimo tragitto in mezzo ai pini e agli aceri che dura almeno un'ora, arriviamo in un luogo, per l'appunto Hot Springs, che rientra in un progetto residenziale in costruzione...ruspe ovunque dopo il bosco e la strada piena di curve...Scappiamo, ma non ci andrà molto meglio arrivando ad Arkadelphia...Best Western di decima categoria. Buona la cena a base di steak in un ristorante tipico, bello anche se fa parte di una catena che si chiama cracker barrel, con negozietto annesso, sedie a dondolo di legno dipinte di rosso e dama sul tavolo per giocare sul terrazzo esterno...
Si dorme e si guida....io poco...
con occhiali rossi....Simone con cappello rosso
se Simone riuscirà a caricare qualche video potrete ridere un pò...
Monday, October 29, 2007
Mask Of Pregnancyafrican Americans
On the road
October 4
From California to Nevada to all'Idaho.
The day is cold and bright, we start very soon ... at 10 am from California we are already Nevada.Siamo sull'Interstatale 80 Outside It 's a two-lane road in both directions, the toll is gratuito.Pochi services, a few gas pumps.
I like the Union Pacific train in the desert ...
's all great, infinite spaces, desert.
Sometimes malls "deserted desert" I see a casino, it is strange in the desert ... and yet so, I wonder where people live, we stop in Winnemucca (nice name right?) And eat a steak superb.
through a beautiful river, I think the Carson River.
Nevada is the driest state in the U.S. and the light is amazing ... at a service station I feel so happy in the desert comincio a correre con Simone che mi guarda e ride.
Mi piace molto il deserto, mi da un senso di infinito come mi da il mare...l'uomo qua non ha potuto trasformare e la natura è sopravvissuta intatta
Sì, LO SO, SEMBRA IRREALE EPPURE E' COSI'
Passiamo vicino a Reno che, dopo Las Vegas, è la città più popolosa.Las Vegas è a sud e non è sulla nostra rotta...peccato deve essere una città incredibilmente strana.
Il nome Nevada deriva dallo spagnolo e significa "innevato", qui si incontrano le montagne Rocky, on the border with Montana, its nickname is
"Silver State" and the capital is Carson City, while traveling ... I study ...
E 'is the only U.S. state where legalized gambling and prostitution.
The Great Plains run I see cowboys and Indians, seems like a dream, is a place where the imagination can run free. We enter
Idaho late afternoon there is still a special light,
the landscape is wild, wind and rain have carved the rocks, arid mountain ranges are separated by barren valleys, we begin to see the gorges and peaks like in the movies ...
this state's nickname is the "Gem State" is a large surface area and sparsely populated 6 inhabitants per square km! I look at the map and it seems impossible to see the road traveled, a state daily, sometimes two!
get tired, but satisfied in Jerome, Idaho, change the time zone for the first time in SanFrancisco, we're going to the west and the air is cool now ... ... + 1
October 5 after a good rest and a good breackfast the Best Western in office, we start from Jerome which is a center of little interest, past, Soda Springs (many names of cities in America end up with the word ... Springs) a pass in a great valley crossed by a River, Green River and ferrovia.Vediamo pastures, plants that are colored red stain in the green and blacks ... Let bison near the Great Salt Lake and lost by a few miles into Utah.
This state has an Indian name meaning "mountain people"
"Beehive State" (state of the beekeepers? Mah .. I have yet to discover) the capital is Salt Lake City. The weather here starts to deteriorate and, unfortunately, it begins to rain and very cold ... do we make 1000 miles! and enter in Wyoming!
prairies, farms, farm surrounded by trees so many horses on the long straight ... the federal police stop us for a check, all right, only we were driving too close to the car in front of noi.Il police officer approached the passenger door ( I!) holding the side of the machine, it seems suspicious, then we look at him, drew a smile and I see that relaxes ... we see that in Wyoming do not seem so hospitable, we can understand mostly in service stations or stops we do to eat, our human relations are poor, but the smile does not seem at home here.
's the state of the U.S. along with the more conservative Texas.
arrive in Rock Springs (springs again!) That is already evening we are very tired and we seem to see the snow fall from the sky, the rocky mountains are covered with snow.
These towns are really strange, we are not accustomed to such countries where everything is concentrated in a commercial area, found on the main road where you see mostly gas stations, Burger King and small supermarkets that sell everything from food to clothes ... the houses are around, a few lower and a little sad.
I do not see children, the effects appear to places disabitati.In Wyoming is the least populated of the U.S., 2 inhabitants per square km ... His nickname is "Cawboy State" In this state there are several Indian reservations inhabited by the Sioux survivors who lived in this territory before the arrival of Europeans.
The capital of Wyoming is Cheyenne.
A Rock Springs we killed a little, eat Chinese food in the room ... we can almost certainly continue to Yellowstone ... we gave up in Las Vegas, Arizona and New Mexico and unfortunately we to leave the mountains of Wyoming due to bad weather and heading south-west.
I really like American trucks and I imagine the life of a trucker who travels alone
all these miles ...
We'll see how the weather will be tomorrow morning when you wake up, but the weather is bad.
It 'amazing how in America the weather forecast is accurate, all rely with certainty to the weather in Italy ... I do not believe anything, but here I am realizing that they are reliable, maybe we weather variability has become in the long run even a hint of character ...
I think it's a bit like going to sea when the weather forces you to stop or change course to port. We
front of more than 2500 miles and a wave of bad weather throughout the course of the Rocky Mountains ...
October 6
We remain sull'Intersatale 80 southbound: Pueblo, Colorado.
We want to leave the cold country of Wyoming and find the sun.
The road runs along the railway, we are up and it rains a un'altopiano dirotto.E 'a lousy day, I have a bit of a bad cold and umore.In these cases better "disappear" ... I sleep a lot while driving
Simon, then a light through my eyelids, and the sun Colorado!
We are in Fort Collins is a beautiful country full of beautiful trees and small houses, single-family, surrounded by greenery, the people are dressed lightly despite the 1000 meters that characterize this state Central America.
SEE this continuous springs? ? invented it ... MICA ME !!!!!
We have the Rocky Mountains to continue west and south.
eat a pizza in two in a room is nice ... lots of wind, the leaves are swirling, the sky is very
terso.Addirittura is seen to reach a kind of small typhoon ... tell us that is quite a abituale.La people are smiling, relaxed and more willing to talk and give us information on the road.
We're going to Denver the capital, and we continue to see illuminated in Colorado Springs.
Colorado's nickname is the "Centennial State" (state centennial)
was the state of the miners because of its important mines of gold and silver.
Utah Wyoming and Colorado are the three states have their borders drawn on the meridians and parallels ...
arrive at a Best Western very hospitable, welcoming us a nice guy, we're the Colorado has given us joy with its red earth ... the morning after a good night's sleep we see the sun and then take advantage of his presence to a ride in a natural park, Garden of the Gods.Troviamo tourists for the first time in three days of street people percorsa.La tossed his horse to ride, others walk or ride bicycles.
Simo and I happy we are everywhere ...
A SOON!
October 4
From California to Nevada to all'Idaho.
The day is cold and bright, we start very soon ... at 10 am from California we are already Nevada.Siamo sull'Interstatale 80 Outside It 's a two-lane road in both directions, the toll is gratuito.Pochi services, a few gas pumps.
I like the Union Pacific train in the desert ...
's all great, infinite spaces, desert.
Sometimes malls "deserted desert" I see a casino, it is strange in the desert ... and yet so, I wonder where people live, we stop in Winnemucca (nice name right?) And eat a steak superb.
through a beautiful river, I think the Carson River.
Nevada is the driest state in the U.S. and the light is amazing ... at a service station I feel so happy in the desert comincio a correre con Simone che mi guarda e ride.
Mi piace molto il deserto, mi da un senso di infinito come mi da il mare...l'uomo qua non ha potuto trasformare e la natura è sopravvissuta intatta
Sì, LO SO, SEMBRA IRREALE EPPURE E' COSI'
Passiamo vicino a Reno che, dopo Las Vegas, è la città più popolosa.Las Vegas è a sud e non è sulla nostra rotta...peccato deve essere una città incredibilmente strana.
Il nome Nevada deriva dallo spagnolo e significa "innevato", qui si incontrano le montagne Rocky, on the border with Montana, its nickname is
"Silver State" and the capital is Carson City, while traveling ... I study ...
E 'is the only U.S. state where legalized gambling and prostitution.
The Great Plains run I see cowboys and Indians, seems like a dream, is a place where the imagination can run free. We enter
Idaho late afternoon there is still a special light,
the landscape is wild, wind and rain have carved the rocks, arid mountain ranges are separated by barren valleys, we begin to see the gorges and peaks like in the movies ...
this state's nickname is the "Gem State" is a large surface area and sparsely populated 6 inhabitants per square km! I look at the map and it seems impossible to see the road traveled, a state daily, sometimes two!
get tired, but satisfied in Jerome, Idaho, change the time zone for the first time in SanFrancisco, we're going to the west and the air is cool now ... ... + 1
October 5 after a good rest and a good breackfast the Best Western in office, we start from Jerome which is a center of little interest, past, Soda Springs (many names of cities in America end up with the word ... Springs) a pass in a great valley crossed by a River, Green River and ferrovia.Vediamo pastures, plants that are colored red stain in the green and blacks ... Let bison near the Great Salt Lake and lost by a few miles into Utah.
This state has an Indian name meaning "mountain people"
"Beehive State" (state of the beekeepers? Mah .. I have yet to discover) the capital is Salt Lake City. The weather here starts to deteriorate and, unfortunately, it begins to rain and very cold ... do we make 1000 miles! and enter in Wyoming!
prairies, farms, farm surrounded by trees so many horses on the long straight ... the federal police stop us for a check, all right, only we were driving too close to the car in front of noi.Il police officer approached the passenger door ( I!) holding the side of the machine, it seems suspicious, then we look at him, drew a smile and I see that relaxes ... we see that in Wyoming do not seem so hospitable, we can understand mostly in service stations or stops we do to eat, our human relations are poor, but the smile does not seem at home here.
's the state of the U.S. along with the more conservative Texas.
arrive in Rock Springs (springs again!) That is already evening we are very tired and we seem to see the snow fall from the sky, the rocky mountains are covered with snow.
These towns are really strange, we are not accustomed to such countries where everything is concentrated in a commercial area, found on the main road where you see mostly gas stations, Burger King and small supermarkets that sell everything from food to clothes ... the houses are around, a few lower and a little sad.
I do not see children, the effects appear to places disabitati.In Wyoming is the least populated of the U.S., 2 inhabitants per square km ... His nickname is "Cawboy State" In this state there are several Indian reservations inhabited by the Sioux survivors who lived in this territory before the arrival of Europeans.
The capital of Wyoming is Cheyenne.
A Rock Springs we killed a little, eat Chinese food in the room ... we can almost certainly continue to Yellowstone ... we gave up in Las Vegas, Arizona and New Mexico and unfortunately we to leave the mountains of Wyoming due to bad weather and heading south-west.
I really like American trucks and I imagine the life of a trucker who travels alone
all these miles ...
We'll see how the weather will be tomorrow morning when you wake up, but the weather is bad.
It 'amazing how in America the weather forecast is accurate, all rely with certainty to the weather in Italy ... I do not believe anything, but here I am realizing that they are reliable, maybe we weather variability has become in the long run even a hint of character ...
I think it's a bit like going to sea when the weather forces you to stop or change course to port. We
front of more than 2500 miles and a wave of bad weather throughout the course of the Rocky Mountains ...
October 6
We remain sull'Intersatale 80 southbound: Pueblo, Colorado.
We want to leave the cold country of Wyoming and find the sun.
The road runs along the railway, we are up and it rains a un'altopiano dirotto.E 'a lousy day, I have a bit of a bad cold and umore.In these cases better "disappear" ... I sleep a lot while driving
Simon, then a light through my eyelids, and the sun Colorado!
We are in Fort Collins is a beautiful country full of beautiful trees and small houses, single-family, surrounded by greenery, the people are dressed lightly despite the 1000 meters that characterize this state Central America.
SEE this continuous springs? ? invented it ... MICA ME !!!!!
We have the Rocky Mountains to continue west and south.
eat a pizza in two in a room is nice ... lots of wind, the leaves are swirling, the sky is very
terso.Addirittura is seen to reach a kind of small typhoon ... tell us that is quite a abituale.La people are smiling, relaxed and more willing to talk and give us information on the road.
We're going to Denver the capital, and we continue to see illuminated in Colorado Springs.
Colorado's nickname is the "Centennial State" (state centennial)
was the state of the miners because of its important mines of gold and silver.
Utah Wyoming and Colorado are the three states have their borders drawn on the meridians and parallels ...
arrive at a Best Western very hospitable, welcoming us a nice guy, we're the Colorado has given us joy with its red earth ... the morning after a good night's sleep we see the sun and then take advantage of his presence to a ride in a natural park, Garden of the Gods.Troviamo tourists for the first time in three days of street people percorsa.La tossed his horse to ride, others walk or ride bicycles.
Simo and I happy we are everywhere ...
A SOON!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Negative Effects Of Boxing
Testa o Croce?
San Francisco October 3, 2007
The morning is beautiful and windy ...
If you come to San Francisco and even if you are a true gentleman, you have to change the habit at least twice during the day ... or dress in layers during the day but you take a rucksack on his back ... so do the ladies and go back home to change.
The temperature is in fact very strong and they told me that it is so throughout the year.
the early morning and evenings are chilly but the day is hot enough.
There is always wind and the air feels a special scent, maybe because of filtering systems that every car, every restaurant and home they own, which make it not stink ... you smell the sea and the scent of plants and flowers.
's funny get on the tram orange and meet ordinary people, a very heterogeneous population and very colorata.Dal tram I see my shop ... in fact find out that a chain is called in America, "Ross dress for less " (dress up little ...)
After a long walk we pass by a supermarket, my favorite game, and I realize how fast the employees at the cash, but in Tokyo where the procedure is rather slow, in fact, while in Tokyo packed with care divide the market by type and name each item, then wait patiently for time to pay, you hold out the money with both hands and withdraws the rest in the same way, getting a bow and thanking mica ... bad!
In San Francisco, but then all America, if you're not quick you say, " next " with a bit ' of impatience (the next ...) here no word and no fitting ...
I have to remember how to do it to be fast!
Change the space, the proportions, change the eyes. In the East
eyes hard to find, intense when you seem to have succeeded in catching them ...
Simon, and Zac's parents, they tell me it is better not stare at anyone in the street, at least in certain areas.
American enough??
Here there are supermarkets of all kinds and for every budget, every time you enter there is a beep that indicates the presence of a human being ... because of security, but when you come to Tokyo
There is a jingle that sings a "welcome" irashaimase , irashaimase " ... or the ladies a bit ' coarse that is repeated endlessly, naturalmente a seconda del tipo di negozio, con voce più o meno alta!! Nei negozi di lusso è sussurrata...
Si, continuo a notare le differenze, qualsiasi sia la scena che mi si presenta.
Dopo una lunga camminata che ci permette di visitare la città a piedi di guardare le macchine che circolano e i distributori di giornali, notiamo che non c'è l'ombra dei distributori di bibite e caffè a cui eravamo ormai abituati,vediamo le persone che lavorano e quelle che si prendono una pausa per fumare una sigaretta.In America è proibito fumare in qualsiasi luogo interno, fumano solo i neri e i poveri, mentre in Giappone fumano in tanti anche se è preferibile non fumare per strada dopo che un bambino è stato ferito a un occhio just a passer-by who smoked ... a Shinjuku, central Tokyo, there are policemen that hands you a portable ashtray and invite you to put out the cigarette, of course telling sumimasen strong suction on the premises ... allow this gesture as damaging as it is pleasant. It
bé, we get to car, choose a nice and spacious car silver, a Trailblaizer Chevrolet petrol with automatic transmission. Strange use only one foot, the left, to accelerate the clutch and brake ... no ... I wonder if they might like to ... James and I smile to myself ... Very
efficienti ci consegnano la macchina che Simone aveva prenotato da Tokyo insieme a un navigatore che sarà la nostra voce guida....
L'impiegato resta allibito quando scopre che vogliamo arrivare a Miami ,dice che 12 giorni sono pochi,che il viaggio sarà molto lungo...
Lo sappiamo veramente solo ora,dopo aver percorso tutte quelle miglia
Abbiamo nel frattempo intervistato persone incontrate per caso,in molti ci dicono che la strada alta è più scenica, che Yellowstone è un parco formidabile, me lo scrive anche mia zia Linda;
altri, per esempio un signore anziano rilassato su una panchina di fronte al mare, al porto di San Francisco, con whom we have a good conversation, after which accompanies us to see a statue of Gandhi close to boarding the ferry to Sausalito ... he advises us to go south through the missions, the parents of Zac tell us that Arizona and New Mexico are beautiful ... "heads or tails? Here we say "heads or tails? Head or tail ?
In truth draws us all, but as always you have to choose ...
California is a very extensive and very populated, his nickname is "The Golden State" because of the famous gold rush.
Decided: we leave for the Yellowstone Natural Park !
Way!!
Back to the hotel to take all our luggage and after making some good laps in the car down the hill towards the sea, we leave this beautiful city, we cross the Way Bridge and head north-east to Sacramento, the capital of California.
through two beautiful valleys Sonoma and Napa entirely cultivated with vineyards, it has yet to harvest and the plants are laden with grapes. We also see fruit plantations, are very fertile land and cared for.
begin to see the beautiful colorful truck, with the funnels ... I'll see a lot during the trip and will never cease to admire ... too good!
We arrive at dusk to Best Western of Napa Valley .
We will use this chain of motels throughout the journey.
I am very comfortable clean and affordable, some really beautiful and with many services, laundry, parking, ì cos we can leave our luggage in the car, plus there's always the swimming pool and the beds are three squares (they call them king bed) ... huge, but useful in this land of fatties ... but the little futon on the tatami in Japan ... everything here is enormous, even the bottles of coca !
San Francisco October 3, 2007
The morning is beautiful and windy ...
If you come to San Francisco and even if you are a true gentleman, you have to change the habit at least twice during the day ... or dress in layers during the day but you take a rucksack on his back ... so do the ladies and go back home to change.
The temperature is in fact very strong and they told me that it is so throughout the year.
the early morning and evenings are chilly but the day is hot enough.
There is always wind and the air feels a special scent, maybe because of filtering systems that every car, every restaurant and home they own, which make it not stink ... you smell the sea and the scent of plants and flowers.
's funny get on the tram orange and meet ordinary people, a very heterogeneous population and very colorata.Dal tram I see my shop ... in fact find out that a chain is called in America, "Ross dress for less " (dress up little ...)
After a long walk we pass by a supermarket, my favorite game, and I realize how fast the employees at the cash, but in Tokyo where the procedure is rather slow, in fact, while in Tokyo packed with care divide the market by type and name each item, then wait patiently for time to pay, you hold out the money with both hands and withdraws the rest in the same way, getting a bow and thanking mica ... bad!
In San Francisco, but then all America, if you're not quick you say, " next " with a bit ' of impatience (the next ...) here no word and no fitting ...
I have to remember how to do it to be fast!
Change the space, the proportions, change the eyes. In the East
eyes hard to find, intense when you seem to have succeeded in catching them ...
Simon, and Zac's parents, they tell me it is better not stare at anyone in the street, at least in certain areas.
American enough??
Here there are supermarkets of all kinds and for every budget, every time you enter there is a beep that indicates the presence of a human being ... because of security, but when you come to Tokyo
There is a jingle that sings a "welcome" irashaimase , irashaimase " ... or the ladies a bit ' coarse that is repeated endlessly, naturalmente a seconda del tipo di negozio, con voce più o meno alta!! Nei negozi di lusso è sussurrata...
Si, continuo a notare le differenze, qualsiasi sia la scena che mi si presenta.
Dopo una lunga camminata che ci permette di visitare la città a piedi di guardare le macchine che circolano e i distributori di giornali, notiamo che non c'è l'ombra dei distributori di bibite e caffè a cui eravamo ormai abituati,vediamo le persone che lavorano e quelle che si prendono una pausa per fumare una sigaretta.In America è proibito fumare in qualsiasi luogo interno, fumano solo i neri e i poveri, mentre in Giappone fumano in tanti anche se è preferibile non fumare per strada dopo che un bambino è stato ferito a un occhio just a passer-by who smoked ... a Shinjuku, central Tokyo, there are policemen that hands you a portable ashtray and invite you to put out the cigarette, of course telling sumimasen strong suction on the premises ... allow this gesture as damaging as it is pleasant. It
bé, we get to car, choose a nice and spacious car silver, a Trailblaizer Chevrolet petrol with automatic transmission. Strange use only one foot, the left, to accelerate the clutch and brake ... no ... I wonder if they might like to ... James and I smile to myself ... Very
efficienti ci consegnano la macchina che Simone aveva prenotato da Tokyo insieme a un navigatore che sarà la nostra voce guida....
L'impiegato resta allibito quando scopre che vogliamo arrivare a Miami ,dice che 12 giorni sono pochi,che il viaggio sarà molto lungo...
Lo sappiamo veramente solo ora,dopo aver percorso tutte quelle miglia
Abbiamo nel frattempo intervistato persone incontrate per caso,in molti ci dicono che la strada alta è più scenica, che Yellowstone è un parco formidabile, me lo scrive anche mia zia Linda;
altri, per esempio un signore anziano rilassato su una panchina di fronte al mare, al porto di San Francisco, con whom we have a good conversation, after which accompanies us to see a statue of Gandhi close to boarding the ferry to Sausalito ... he advises us to go south through the missions, the parents of Zac tell us that Arizona and New Mexico are beautiful ... "heads or tails? Here we say "heads or tails? Head or tail ?
In truth draws us all, but as always you have to choose ...
California is a very extensive and very populated, his nickname is "The Golden State" because of the famous gold rush.
Decided: we leave for the Yellowstone Natural Park !
Way!!
Back to the hotel to take all our luggage and after making some good laps in the car down the hill towards the sea, we leave this beautiful city, we cross the Way Bridge and head north-east to Sacramento, the capital of California.
through two beautiful valleys Sonoma and Napa entirely cultivated with vineyards, it has yet to harvest and the plants are laden with grapes. We also see fruit plantations, are very fertile land and cared for.
begin to see the beautiful colorful truck, with the funnels ... I'll see a lot during the trip and will never cease to admire ... too good!
We arrive at dusk to Best Western of Napa Valley .
We will use this chain of motels throughout the journey.
I am very comfortable clean and affordable, some really beautiful and with many services, laundry, parking, ì cos we can leave our luggage in the car, plus there's always the swimming pool and the beds are three squares (they call them king bed) ... huge, but useful in this land of fatties ... but the little futon on the tatami in Japan ... everything here is enormous, even the bottles of coca !
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