If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. --Glenn Clark
Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it. --Eudora Welty
Note: This is a tourist review
INTRODUCTION
USA is a dreamland for everyone. No one can deny the fact that USA is the land of opportunities and is a place of beautiful lifestyle. Ignoring its shortcomings, USA is a wonderful place to live, if you are healthy or if you have an exceptional health insurance. USA is a dream destination for millions of tourists all over the world. Once you enter the country after getting a visa and innumerous security checks, you are in for a treat. Let me assure you that USA is a place where travel is very much enjoyable as is the place you visit. I shall explore the places I visited during my stay and other innumerous places you can enjoy.
A Grand Tour of USA
You can start-off at the Mexico border and enjoy the beauty of Grandeur of the navy city of San Diego. Places to visit are the Seaworld. You will enjoy Shamu and the dolphins. You can enjoy the beautiful harbor and you will have a great journey along the Pacific ocean on I-5.You can enjoy hot dosas at Udupi’s in Norwalk, a suburb of LA. In Anaheim, you can visit the “Disney Land” and “Knott’s Berry Farm” along with “California” amongst many adventures. You are in for a wonderful treat. LA is a spectacle. You can see the LA downtown, Santa Monica & Malibu beaches. The beautiful Hollywood studios and the hills are awesome. You have innumerous joints to enjoy. A drive along San Bernardino valley is heavenly. Catalina Island is a great one too. You may wish to enjoy the Death valley which is the lowest point in the North America. The serenity is beautiful.
After you are done in LA, you can take the scenic highway ride to Santa Barbara. You can enjoy the scenic beaches of SB and see the castle of the Media Tycoon ’s Hearst Castle on whom the movie Citizen Kane is based on. San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Santa Clara, Fremont and Mountain View is part of the Silicon Valley, one of the costliest region to live in and is a place were almost everyone owns the most fancied cars (at least before the dot com bust). The place is very beautiful and the Santa Cruz beach is awesome. You can also visit the Little America and the Golden Gate Bridge besides the Alcatraz Prison in the Bay. The bay region also houses the beautiful Oakland and the scenic place os sausolito, where millionaires live.
SF downtown, China Town is a picturesque place along with the Piers of SF. This sin city is a great place to take a stroll in. You need to go to Berkeley to have a hearty chats and bhandars. When I last visited SF to attend a conference in Nov’02, UCB was the only university in USA to oppose the attack on Afghanistan! (I meant no war rally). Berkeley is a beautiful place. You need to visit Mountain View to see the technological giants. You can also take a pilgrimage to a place called Stanford University with a beautiful mountain ride.
You are not done in CA yet until you travel to Yosemite to see the El capitan and the Giant Sequoias. When you stand in front of a giant sequoia, you feel so humbled and so small. Sequoias are great examples of survival in this world and teach you a lesson about the world.
You can travel in the mountainous Northern CA to visit the beautiful Oregon. Though I haven’t been to Oregon and Washington states, I am told by my friends that these two states are one of the picturesque states. The scenic beauty of Portland Harbor and the rainy Seattle amongst the mountains is a place to visit. The Oregon national parks are also great.
Alaska, is a place where you have beautiful glaciers and national parks of might. See the movie Pukaar to see the beauty of Alaska in a song.
Idaho is a state I have been to and it is a lumber state producing most of the paper for USA. Boise is a great small town and you can see the western entrance of Yellowstone in Idaho. Idaho has a lot of fishing places too.
Nevada is a great place to visit, especially if you like lights or is a gambler. The sin city Las Vegas is one of the biggest tourist attractions of USA. Reno is another great place to visit. I wanted to visit Area 51 but couldn’t and my share of thrill was the giant hoover dam. Man! It is quite a site, just seeing this beautiful dam built on colorado river.
Arizona is a nice state that has a giant city of Phoenix. The greatest attraction in AZ is the Grand Canyon and its South Rim. I shall pen a review on AZ for its grandiose Grand Canyon. It is quite a place to see.
New Mexico is better known for the nuclear research carried out at Los Alamos. The baloon festival of Albuquerque is quite a site. Los Alamos, Albuquerque, Las Cruces and Taos are some excellent places. Another thing I remember about NM is the driving in I-25 at night when I saw no vehicle for almost 2 hours on either side, when I went to GC.
Colorado is beautiful place and it has so many ski resorts. Denver, the milehi city is quite a place. It also houses NORAD in Cheyenne Mountains. Aspen, Vail, BreckenRidge, Loveland, Snomass are some of the many wonderful ski resorts. Colorado Springs, Air Force Academy, Glenwood Springs are some important places to visit apart from the scenic Rocky Mountains. The drive atop trail-ridge road is lovely. You will fall in love with nature, again and again.
For Wyoming, the Yellowstone state, checkout my review on the same.
Montana sky is beautiful and so is billings and bozeman in Montana. You have no speed limit whilst driving here and it has the coldest spot in continental USA.
North Dakota is an agri state and Fargo is a beautiful place to visit. South Dakota has the Mt.Rushmore where you can see the presidential faces and you can visit the great badlands and free highways.
Nebraska has nothing but barren lands and agri fields. Lincoln and Omaha are the places to visit. Kansas has the majestic Kansas City on the border of Missouri and is a nice place. Topeka and Wichita Falls are other places to visit.
Oklahoma is famous for the tornadoes and the famous incident that shook the nation. OK city is a nice place to visit along with Tulsa. You can even go to ’’Broken Arrow’’.
Texas has a lot of places to visit. Be it San Antonio, Houston, Austin or Dallas-Ft.Worh or Corpus Christi, you can have a nice time and a familial atmosphere in US, for a change. The food is excellent and so is the hospitality of the Cowboy state. The NASA museum is a must in Houston and it houses many beautiful places on earth.
Louisiana is a great state with a lot of french culture. New Orleans and the Mardi Gras is world renowned. Baton Rouge and the waterfront of LA is great.
Arkansas is famous for Walmart, Worldcom and Bill Clinton. It is an agriland and Little Rock is a nice site to visit.
Missouri is a beautiful state with St.Louis and its arch. The river is beautiful and it houses two big cities in US, namely St.Louis and Kansas City you will have great time here.
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