The Olympic Peninsula is located on the Pacific coast of Washington and its hometown of Kurt Cobain. They claim that they do not need to be reserved at all for three months. This is still a little bit about the beauty of the Pacific Northwest (although for us it is, after all, the southwest).

In response to our enthusiasm, “Hurray, finally winter, snow and frost” some Alaskan old-timers shook their heads: they say you live here for more than three years, and then you will sing in a different way - short days, long nights, you leave to work darkly and returning home in the dark, bad roads, boring snow that needs to be constantly cleared, frost, gas and electricity bills, a disreputable house in which you spend almost all the time ... No, summer is better.

I will continue the story about Oregon that started from Portland and is far from complete, especially since now our village is covered in snow and there is nothing better than to plunge into old photos from the sea. We start in a small town - Astoria - on the border of Oregon and Washington and move on the 101st highway to the south.

Alaska is a very large state. Not as big, of course, as it is painted on the usual distorted maps, where Greenland is the size of Africa. And as big as on a globe, where Africa is almost twice as large as Russia, Greenland is smaller than Kazakhstan, and the United States and Canada are almost the same size.

I have repeatedly complained on this blog that there are no normal passenger railways in America. But this is not quite so - from the former luxury of the mid-XX century there are still a few amazing pieces left. And recently I was lucky to use just one such person when I drove 850 kilometers of one of the few sleeping trains in the country - the California Zephyr.

Exactly one year ago, in the first days of June I finished a three-month korpenie over diserom at Caltech, got on a plane and within five hours drinking Guinness with his longtime friend in downtown Chicago. Long had to write about the city (especially promised a friend to share the view from the outside), but somehow did not develop.

I came back from an incredible place. Distant, wild, hidden in Alaska. The northernmost state, where very rarely come from Russia. The border guard questioned my companion why Alaska, because you have the same nature and the same cold. And I have seven reasons why everyone should ever visit Alaska. About them and tell from a large series of reports. Firstly, it's beautiful.

Seattle - the largest city in the state of Washington and around the Northwestern United States, and one of the most progressive cities in the state that gave the world "Boeing", "Microsoft", "Starbucks", "Amazon" and "Nirvana".

Hey there. I then something had stayed in hiding. We must go. Single I continue to write about our trip to the beetle along the Pacific Ocean from the Mexican border to the Canadian. In this article, I'll tell you about San Francisco. A little unusual to remember travel impressions of the city, when it is already live in almost 3 months. But I'll try ...

On his return from the United States many people asked me what I remember most. I will answer again: endless road of this great country. America - a country for both humans and their machines. I drove on these roads and twenty thousand kilometers behind the wheel, and no one kilometer I did not feel stress or strain on the contrary - it turns driving the car a real buzz.

To date, Oregon, perhaps, seems to me the most beautiful and diverse state of America. It seems that here you can find almost all possible landscapes of the United States.

All tourists, arriving in New York, in Manhattan crowd. I - is no exception, no matter where I stop, most of the time I spend there. Where else? Not in the Bronx? And here is the opposite happened, I appeared in Manhattan raids, and the Bronx climbed all, in any case, a decent part of Riverdale. For some reason it is considered important to mention the name, when you tell it to our emigrants. Because he heard the word "Bronx", people in the know are starting to wrinkle his nose, and when specified, what I mean Riverdale, they say that it is another matter.

Niagara Falls (Eng. Niagara Falls) - a complex of waterfalls on the Niagara River, which separates the US state of New York from the Canadian province of Ontario. Niagara Falls - a waterfall "Horseshoe" (Eng. Horseshoe Falls), sometimes also called the Canadian Falls (Eng. Canadian Falls), the American Falls (Eng. American Falls) and waterfall "Veil" (Eng. Bridal Veil Falls). Although the height difference is not very large and waterfalls are very wide, and the volume of water passing through it Niagara Falls - the most powerful in North America.

New York is known to be a very intense metropolis: City never sleeps, say townspeople. At the same time, New Yorkers and visitors to the city have to be expensive to pay for a sign of financial capital of the world: the prices in restaurants, taxis and accommodation - an order of magnitude higher than that across America.

I decided to give you the archive photo report on a New Year's trip to New York, which occurred a few years ago. Unfortunately, I stayed there not too long and had to remove the foam except that with most tourist places. Let neuvidennym much left, but one thing I can say for sure, sunsets in New York City Fabulous!