So you know how it was such a long held wish to visit the US… from early little me watching TV through growing up with the music and the movies and all that hype … through to a growing realisation the place is enormous and a long way away.
And then a number of years later, I arrived.
A friend said today how it was curious to see America through my eyes.
There are things I see as foreign, despite the similarities between the US & UK, it’s subtle nuances, things I knew about from TV but have never seen in real life. It feels like I’ve slipped through a portal to a parallel universe in which I shrunk back to child sized in relation to my surroundings. And with mountains. Actual mountains. With actual snow on them!
In my three week adventure I covered almost 12,000 miles, through 8 states, and met some really wonderful people.
I’ve been home about a day and a half and gradually processing and decompressing from the gazillions of new experiences. I came back with upward of 42 GB of video and photos … some edits required, then I’ll show you some of my adventurings!
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I look forward to reading about your adventures. I am almost three years into living in the US now and I still have not quite got to grips with some of the differences.
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Looking forward to that!
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Your take on it will be so interesting. In Canada we are so intertwingled with American stuff that it feels there are no differences sometimes. But there are lots of nuances as you said.
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It’s funny, isn’t it, it’s the little details. I was fascinated by things I grew up with as common everyday stuff, but *only on TV* not in my *real* world. Things I encountered in real life for the 1st time — smores and root beer and yellow cabs — and a load more. Life is much more homogenised now thanks to media so the differences are closing up worldwide. I’m glad to be the generation I am to have seen so much of these changes.
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