conclusion

Here we are at the airplane going back to Sweden and Landvetter after an amazing month in the enormous USA.  We started off in the “starcity” of Los Angeles, where we picked up our housecar that we rented from a Swedish webpage, and what can we say… Los Angeles was great. The best of Los Angeles to me was that you got to see the real city of LA and not the one you read about in the newspapers about Hollywood and all the superstars living there in luxury. You actually got to see some normal people with normal lifes and you really realized that they are not that different from us in the rest of the world even though media shows us them from a certain side. We think that the best thing about LA was to take pictures of ourselves and the Hollywoodsign. It’s something we always have wanted and it will be just a memory for life.

One thing we really thought about is that you hear a lot that everyone in USA is fat and they eat all this greasy food and fastfood but it’s not what many people actually eat. And sure they might be the “fattest” nation in the world but they are also one of the biggest, so why shouldn’t it be more fat people there? As far as we know we didn’t see an insane amount of fat people in USA compared to home in Sweden and I think that the feeling we get that USA is so fat and everything is from our Hamburger dressing which is called “American hamburger dressing” and that most of the fastfood companies are from USA. But many Americans are not fat and they eat pretty much the same things as we do. But of course they don’t eat the same thing in the north as they do in the south because they get really influenced from the surrounding place for example in the south they eat a bit more South American than in the north.

But enough of the food and back to the trip!

So after we’ve were in LA we headed to THE city of USA, viva Las Vegas in our awesome housecar that was really small. So in Las Vegas we just did what all the other tourists do, of course gamble at the casinos and we actually stayed a night at a hotel, the MGM grand. But the best thing about Las Vegas was the helicopter night tour we took. It was just amazing to fly high in the air and see Las Vegas at night, truly a remarkable sight and this is something we really recommend to all of you that are thinking of going to the Las Vegas because it will be a memory for life to see all the hotels and all the amazing building and everything in the city of party! Oh, and we almost forgot… We saw an amazing show at the MGM grand of David Copperfield and it was a really good show, so that as well is something we recommend.

After all the partying in Vegas it was time to go to the city of Albuquerque in New Mexico and as we all can hear it will be kind of Spanish in Albuquerque since it’s in New Mexico and Mexico is kind of Spanish :D When we arrived to Albuquerque we noticed that it didn’t look like very Spanish but that it were much more South Americans living here so there were many Mexican restaurants, shops etc. and you noticed that they spoke a lot more Spanish or “South Americanish” here than in the other places we’ve been to.

Following up was Dallas in the state of Texas, and since we’re going to Texas we all thought that we would got to see some cool cowboys but unfortunately we didn’t see a single one L But we quickly noticed that football was the thing in Dallas and we later found out that the stadium to the Dallas Cowboys wasn’t in Dallas but in Arlington just outside. We got to talk to the coach of the Cowboys (don’t ask how) and he said that the Cowboys is the world’s second biggest sports franchise just after Manchester United and that the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders is really famous in USA and that they not only cheer at the games but they travel around in the USA and give shows to people, one of them is the US Army. So they have things to do at all time, the cheerleaders.

Now we headed first to the Mississippi river and then to the city of New Orleans. At the Mississippi river we just stopped by and took some pictures, or at least we tried until I got pushed into the river and the camera got ruined (as we found out later) so the coast guard had to chase Linus down the river and then drag him up, which wasn’t so very fun. Then in the city of New Orleans, at first when we decided to go here we thought that it would be cool but it wasn’t. The city in our eyes were kind of dead, so we only stayed here for a night and took a tour through the city and we have to say that we are impressed of how they have rebuilt the city since the terrible storm a couple of years ago. So we at least found one good thing about New Orleans, apart from the beach then of course J

The final destination on our trip was not far away, which was Miami in Florida. Here I got to say that we were kind of lucky because when we came to Miami the Spring Break was everywhere! So there were parties and concerts all over the beaches lots of students everywhere and just felt that this would be a great stay. So the first few days we partied not only in Miami but we went to the city of Fort Lauderdale not far away and went to a concert on the beach there and it was nice. So after some Spring Break partying it was time to return the car and then was the plan to head back home. But we figured that we had quite a lot of money left and none of us had any work to go to so we thought, why not take a boat all the way to New York? So we went to the harbor and found this guy who needed someone to drive a really nice boat to his brother in New York and seemed like the perfect match. So the next day we were on a boat driving to New York! At the boat Farnam caught a dolphin and we just chilled and had a great time relaxing after all the partying in New York.

We arrived to New York harbor and then we just called the dude’s brother and headed downtown. In New York we just did what every normal tourist would do, visit all the famous places like the Empire state building, statue of Liberty, Central Park and of course we went out shopping with the little money we had left. And apart from the weather and all because obviously it’s not in the same place as Sweden. It felt a bit newer than here in Gothenburg, and I’m not talking about Beverly Hills or any “luxuryplace” now, just the ordinary USA. They pretty much talk about the same things as us, dresses the same way as us and worry about the same things as us. Of course they speak English and we Swedish but but :D But the USA is sooooo freaking big. Like you can fit like tons of Gothenburgs inside New York and the buildings are so tall, here in Sweden we rarely see building that tall but here they are everywhere! It feels quite overwhelming to be here in one of the world’s most powerful nations and I have to say that the big buildings makes it feel powerful!

And now we are almost at home! So to sum it up, we had really fun and we got to see almost the whole USA, shared some good and some bad times (mostly good). What more can we say, we recommend going to a road trip or any point of long trip during your life. It’s really fun and it’s something you will remember forever. So for the last time, 

over and out from Linus, Farnam and H to the ugo, Hugo