US of A

It was in the summer of 08. For the first time in my life, I visited the United States of America. I spent there three weeks. One week was spent for visiting the west coast, between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

I must say that for me was a deception, after watching several movies where California is represented as a kind of fantastic place, a short of paradise, always sunny and plenty of beautiful beaches. In fact, we spent five of the seven days without swimming, due to the bad weather, always cold.

San Francisco was an exception. Climbing the hills of the city aboard the streetcars was a funny experience, also the different parts of the city, with the italian and the chinese districts. The bay is beautiful, with the world famous Golden Gate, and the little village of the other side of the bay, called Sausalito.

After this week, i spent two weeks in Chicago, wich is one of the most amazing cities i ever visited, with such a lot of skyscrappers, the Michigan's lake, the millenium park and nightlife.

To sum up, my journey was a nice experience, but also a expensive one, specially because generally there is nothing to visit in the cities, nothing but shops, so we spent all the day shopping.