I want to keep up the blog but what do I write? random thoughts I guess......
The USA
What's Hot:
Costco - What a great idea for people with an extra house to put their groceries in! I love this store... it's almost as good as Pak-n-Save in New Zealand. You can get everything here in bulk, and I do mean bulk! The nacho chips I bought there way back at the start of my trip were $3 or so and lasted a week of intense eating! We found gallon (4 litre) containers of Mayo!!! lol
Transit - NY subway system has to be one of the best in the world. $1.25 when you enter a station and you can go wherever you want, change lines, do whatever. DC's is good as well, you put your ticket in at the departing station and take it out at the arrival station, it calculates the fare and takes it off your 'smartcard'.
Numbered Streets - While slightly boring, the system of numbering streets makes it so easy to get around. It is pretty hard to ever get lost in New York City!
What's Not:
High Fructose Corn Syrup - It's in EVERYTHING!
Pizza - Yes I want to pay $12 for a pizza that only has cheese on it. And yes I am happy to pay 1.50 per topping!!! You've got to be kidding. Also the pizza is rubbish anyway.... the US needs a major influx of Italians.... or Australians.
Big Cars - If the US needed to mobilise it's citizens for an all out countryside attack on another country it could easily do it without having to supply them with big trucks. Everyone here drives military size vehicles. What global warming problem? Our European friends would freak out. Suprisingly California was the worst exponent of this, a place which is supposed to be fairly sensitive to environmental issues. The 'big cars' we have in Australia look like matchbox cars compared to these things.
MTV - Yes lets have a music tv station that plays the same shit every single day!!! The TV equivelent of triple m