They let me in! In fact despite what was said by the air stewards on Qantas it was painless and straight forward to get through US immigration and customs.
Qantas by the way continues to slide down my league table of favourite airlines. Their planes inside are now as tired looking as their staff. The meals are a joke. I got more food on a 3hr flight on Emirates (now numero uno for me).
Whinge over anyway. I have now been in the States for almost a week and having a fab time. I drove straight to Las Vegas after some nervous jet lagged driving through the freeways of LA and have now moved on to Sequoia National Park where I am about to embark on a short drive to gorp at the World’s largest living organism.
I know a lot of guys and girls who read this are from the USA so they might be interested in what I have to say generally about your nation.
America is a land of obesity?
Well I honestly don’t think it has much more of a problem than Australia or Britain to be honest. What I would say is that if I continue to eat three meals a day I might be adding to the problem by the time I get back home.
I had a buffet in a casino the other day and started off with a salad. I swear people were looking at me in disbelief.
The Latino influence
I don’t want to get involved in politics but California (and Vegas) would simply come to a grinding halt without the workers from South of the border.
I also hung out with a couple of Latinos for a while one night in Vegas and sadly witnessed some mindless knobs who were making some pretty disparaging comments towards them. Mindless knobs exist everywhere of course.
The girls love an English accent
It’s not often I am invited along with a group of 21 yr olds to celebrate one of their birthdays. Too bad their mum and dad were with them!
Americans are friendly and hospitable
Absolutely. This has been the case everywhere thus far.
The Grand Canyon is a must see.
Absolutely again!
Bears
I have to mention these big fellas. I have not seen one yet and I am not too bothered if I don’t catch a glimpse of the magnificent beasts.
Of course the night before I am heading somewhere where they exist in large numbers (only black bears and they generally don’t attack humans) National Geographic presents me with a program about Bear attacks in the USA! Eeeekkkk!
Just to ease the worry that some of my readers might have I am not going to be walking on my own out there and if I do encounter a hungry bear it will at least get a good feed as there will be a few of us!
So I am going now as a I don’t wanna keep the big General (or 60,000 black bears) waiting!