I along with my daughter set foot in America at the Los Angeles airport at 14:20 am on Sunday 03.9.2006 and depart the United States at 1:30 am on Thursday, 09/21/2006 from the San Francisco airport.
As most of you that my daughter and you live in Southern California, so I selected this state to make travel savings. In your home, each of them a few days. Your guides are employed relatively idle.
Since this is my first time to the United States for a short stay, 18 days, so before you leave me and you live here arranged this trip and my best: just see more many of you as happy, just California to visit as many places as possible. I was staying at the home of friends in Los Angeles and San Jose. I was going to look at some of the casinos in Las Vegas; World (Sea World); Universal Studios Hollywood; Golden Gate Bridge (Golden Gate); Harbour Bridge 39 (Pier 39 Fisherman's Wharf); Danish village of Solvang; area 17 Miles (17 Miles) ...; transported by cars travel along the Pacific coast of California on Freeway 101 (from Los Angeles to San Jose took nearly 15 hours because of frequent stops sightseeing - instead of 7 hours if run smoothly) ...
The best of my feelings about the United States is a life of peace and order; everyone polite and respect the law should be very comfortable living.
America too good transport system
California boasts People roads and traffic signs best of America. The traffic signs, street names are fitting places convenient for the driver to see: at the intersection in the city, traffic signals and street lights are hung high on the other side of the intersection. Americans drive on street signs and traffic signs.
Traffic in Los Angeles
If you "is water", you never stray too far because driving around on the road signs. Freeway no junction. A friend said, just need to know the 3 freeways district and the direction to the destination is able to drive anywhere. Vehicle speed on the freeway is controlled by radar and aircraft (there are signs on the freeway). Because cars move at a rate of 35 ~ 55 miles / hour (60 ~ 90 km / h) in the city and 65 ~ 100 miles / hour (100 ~ 160 km / h) on the freeway so the distance is calculated by the time driving. Less than one hour drive distance is considered close! Cars, each one. How many adult family there with her car. No one by one.
System under the road have electronic sensors to regulate automatic traffic signal. Yet still happen all the traffic jams on the freeway in rush hour due to too many cars and suffer from performance bottlenecks - from five lanes on the freeway reduced to 3 lanes in the city.
The public facilities are quite good: gas stations, department stores, food outlets are located throughout and includes free public toilets and very clean. Even when the car is running on the freeway, if wishing to go to the bathroom, turn on EXIT is possible to stop at gas stations or stores to deal with.
Way along the Pacific coast there is an adjacent limestone rock covered with iron mesh to prevent falling down the road. Make yourself feel very safe.
American society: order, discipline, respect for the law
U.S. citizens respect the traffic rules: always stop at the white line with the word STOP painted on the road at the junction (even though no vehicles cross back and forth) or when STOP signs (I have to witness the 2-D form must stop when the bus carrying students up tables STOP to students off on the right side).
No one won and lanes. Jams the queue. Dedicated lane on the freeway incident (emergency lane) along the right and left. No car ran into the lane.
Many parts of the left side is the car pool lane (lane reserved for cars carrying many people): due to frequent traffic jams on the freeway at rush hour so the vehicles carrying two or more people to move into lane this. The same right lane is a right turn lane and the car moved into this lane must turn right.
Litter on the road is very heavy fines. During the 101 Freeway and National Road 1 (state) along the Pacific coast there are always signs: littering will be fined $ 1,000.
U.S. citizens in good standing of laws provisions, perhaps because the penalty is very high!
A friend said: In 30 years of living in America, he was fined a single traffic violation by the U-shaped around on the freeway (to save time). Before the round, he looks first look. There is no shadow of a police car, then he is around. Just finished round, met in front of the police car. It took us $ 500 fine.
Another friend's story: at 2:00 am, you are sleeping. Gate bell rang. Startled awake, sleepily, opened the door. Police officers stand in front of a polite hello and sorry to have disturbed the host in the morning like this, but because the owner let the dog go rong, police dogs and traffic returned with a fine of USD 100. If repeated, the fine will double. Angry that this dog is not ornamental dog, you said I do not want to feed the dog again and handed to the police handling. The answer is: to pay $ 500 if you want to be addressed.
Life: to work hard to "pay" for life
In the United States, want everything, including knowledge, but must be paid in cash and therefore have to work hard to pay for life. Family life privacy will be respected. This means that no one cares about who although common in group quarters.
No one paid attention to costumes, the people of the United States are considered citizens wearing sloppy. Except those who are civil servants or work in large companies, formal wear, others often find jeans, pull jacket and shoes sports fabric. When any eateries that even when absent, visitors also have to wait for the staff restaurant guide on the table and not automatically go in and find a table to sit.
Houses, mostly made of wood. Walls with plywood and covered with plaster fake brick wall. Airports around the house are covered with lush green grass. Growing cash cow grass. I have a friend who built his career in Los Angeles in this, now you have another job as real estate, but he said: can not quit grass.
In the U.S., it is hard to distinguish the urban countryside as landscape and at the same, people dress the same. Only new natives distinguish, for example, to the people of Los Angeles, living in San Jose called "home" even though it is the capital of Silicon Valley.
What makes me particularly concerned that children in the U.S. are extremely good care, from school to have fun. No children have to work to earn a living. In Vietnam we? Label label street children have probably strive to find pieces of rice and clothes. It's throbbing heart.
After the short trip, there are still a lot of reviews about America not mentioned here because it is the way of life and social life of a development. Modern American society and life growing up people always have gone with it, and people were forced to work hard to pay for life, not much time to devote to personal preference or gathering friends ...
For me, would have said: If you have to pay dinner jacket, where we also have to work to forget his, but repayment dinner jacket in Vietnam, we also contribute to the country though it is small .
You dream of a better life in America, try to make a long trip, enter real life some time whether you can live the American or not!
According D.T - The Far Land
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