I first became fascinated with New Orleans when I watched James Bond's Live And Let Die (1973) as a child. Then there was the film Angel Heart (1987) and the game Gabriel Knight. I decided that I would definitely find myself here someday. I was attracted by the stormy mishmash of cultures and the atmosphere of an eternal holiday. And I must say that New Orleans did not disappoint me, even though it was half-empty, half-closed, and it was not possible to fully experience the atmosphere of this place.

When the confusion of the first months after birth began to pass, and we were again able to perceive their environment not only from the standpoint of "feed-wash, change clothes," habitually knocked in the head the idea of traveling. Traditionally, Christmas and New Year holidays we spent outside the home. And this year did not want to make exceptions.

Behind visit an old friend and four days exploring the surrounding area of Los Angeles, past the accompaniment of heavy rain and cold weather in California to +12. I do not want to clutter up your tape lengthy introduction, so straight to the point.

Las Vegas - the island of entertainment, pleasure and ongoing fun in the desert of Nevada.

Oh, what a love all sorts of unusual people and freaks, Ron Lessman of Kansas has surpassed all of them. I have long wanted to get acquainted with these rednecks and breathe the romance of the American redneck. Ron did not just rednecks, and especially subspecies hillbilly living almost as a hermit on a large farm.

Photos from the April Death Valley I will start showing from the end :) This is almost the last frame made that day - sunset. Next was just the return trip to our hotel in Vegas, for the most part already in complete darkness, with only one small stop at the roadside Walgreens to buy new slippers. Why the need for such a purchase arose - I will explain below.

This may seem strange, but for 2.5 years of life in Jacksonville, I wrote very little about this city. This is due to the fact that Jacksonville - is a city of the anthill, where virtually nothing interesting, where decent people are not made to move in no other way, except by car, and where to walk, in fact, can only be in the area beaches. Recently I was, after all, walked through the city center, the so-called downtown, and a few of his take pictures.

Then began the mountain and in my opinion the best part of our trip. We were approaching the National Park Great Smoky Mountains located in the Appalachian mountain system on the territory of the State of North Carolina and Tennessee.

The biggest hole in the ground, and the most famous park in the United States. At the Grand Canyon, I was the third time, but the place attracts the fire, the canyon can be admired forever. In the fall I'm going to finally go on the north side.

Today visited the homeless in the city, where he found about a thousand California homeless, living in an impressive poverty, crime and destruction.

I've already talked about Forest Hills Gardens, but the place is so beautiful that I was ready to write about it at least every month. In fact, this is one of the few areas of New York, where I wanted to live. The quiet and cozy street parking at each house, beautiful architecture, good location. For those who hear about it the first time, I recommend to go to the link in my first post, where everything is painted in detail. The rest of the invite to enjoy the beauty of spring Forest Hills Gardens.

While obscurantism is going on in some parts of the country - from the burial of criminals in golden coffins to the hammering of invented statistics on coronavirus cases into gullible heads, in other states they decided to quarantine. Among them was Florida, which in mid-May began to lift restrictions on visiting beaches and on the work of businesses in the service sector.

Do you like fishing? A paid? I - not really. But I could not not check as do Americans. Let's look at what the city fishermen live in California. I invite you to check out fishing that occurs regularly with a berth in Los Angeles and which brings together local hardworking cascading half-day out of the city to surrender to the beloved and return home in the evening with their catch.

The obvious solution was to go straight to Boston, descend through New York and Washington to Norfolk in Virginia, and only then go back in detail through the missing central states for wintering in Montana (with wintering, by the way, it was also not clear until recently). Thus, after a week and 3,200 kilometers (we drove without haste), we arrived in the autumn lands, which in Hawaii I could only dream of.

I think that with some of them begin my story, decided - with the Chinese. In fact, initially the May holidays we planned a trip to China, but almost at the last moment changed his decision, which I am very pleased.