UNITED STATES
TRAVEL: Traveling in the United States is extremely easy; in a
country where everyone seems to be forever on the move, there's rarely any
problem finding a room for the night, and you can almost invariably depend
on being able to eat well and inexpensively. The development of
transportation has played a major role in the growth of the nation; the
railroad opened the way for transcontinental migrations, while most of the
great cities have been shaped by the automobile. Your experience of the
country will be very much flavored by how you choose to get around.
By far the best
way to explore the country is to drive your own vehicle : it takes a long
time before the sheer pleasure of cruising down the highway, with the radio
blaring blues or country music, the signs to Chicago, Memphis or Monument
Valley flashing past, begins to pall. We have also
detailed public transportation options throughout; you can pretty much get
to wherever you choose by a nationwide network of air, bus and rail.
However, if you do travel this way, there's a real temptation to see America
as a succession of big cities . True enough, New York and Los Angeles have
an exhilarating dynamism and excitement, and among their worthy rivals are
New Orleans , the wonderfully decadent home of jazz, Chicago , a showcase of
modern architecture, and San Francisco , on its beautiful Pacific bay. Few
other cities - with the possible, and idiosyncratic, exception of Las Vegas
, shimmering in the desert - can quite match this level of interest,
however, and following a heavily urban itinerary will cut you off from the
astonishing landscapes that make the USA truly distinctive. Especially in
the vast open spaces of the West, the scenery is often breathtaking. The
glacial splendor of Yosemite , the thermal wonderland of Yellowstone , the
awesome red-rock canyons of Arizona and Utah, and the spectacular Rocky
Mountains are among many of the treasures preserved and protected in the
splendid national park system. Once you reach such wilderness, the potential
for hiking and camping is magnificent - but it's usually essential to have a
car to get near these spots.
The United
States is all too often dismissed, even by its own inhabitants, as a land
almost devoid of history . Though mainstream America tends to trace its
roots back to the Pilgrims and Puritans of New England, the rest of the
continent has a longer history, stretching back way beyond the French
culture of Louisiana and the Spanish presence in California to the majestic
cliff palaces built by the Ancestral Puebloans in the Southwest a thousand
years ago. There are also any number of fascinating strands to America's
post-revolutionary history: relics of the Gold Rush in California, of the
Civil Rights years in the South, or of the Civil War anywhere east of the
Mississippi. READ
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