I'am happy to be riding back into this country. It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that.
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)
- LOADS of people in California, especially in LA have tatoos
- in New York everyone is trying to fuck you over, even if you do not give them the hint, that you are an easy target
- San Diego has turned out to be a really great town (I truly did not expect it)
- in Nevada you can smoke everywhere, except in the restaurants
- all American airlines are total rubbish, their plains are old, there are no fully reclined seats and no personal entertainment systems. Even in the first class and on long haul flights (with the exception of intercontinental flights - I guess they don't want to show their primitive traveling habits to the foreigners)
- Americans are really slow in whatever they are doing (not only because they are incompetent, which they are, but also just slow). Therefore there are ques and lines everywhere
- American TV is utter crap (not the big news, everybody knows this. Just wanted to reconfirm)
- in New York you can buy cigarettes at the chemist
- Americans are truly naive (except the New York crowd, who is just dodgy)
- an American has no problem in going to the wrong que (be it 1st class or VIP, despite the fact that he is neither), but it is not the freedom thing - just a lack of the ability to focus
- Americans love their flip flops, especially during the travel
