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Travel overview
Being a European, entering the USA for the first time is a strange sensation:
everything is different, and at the same time, caused by
movies, books and tv, it feels like you have known it all your life.
It's an ideal country for travelers: it's very easy to get involved in
a conversation (not only because of the language), and
there are enormous supermarkets everywhere, with everything you can imagine, and very diverse.
In july 2000, Ernst, Wouter, Karin, Pieter and me stayed one week in Manhattan.
Ernst got ill, but all the same, we have been to
the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, Central Park and Coney Island,
and have roamed through Manhattan.
On this page, you find some of the highlights.
To 
New York...
On this page, you find information about travel guides about New York.
I took three guides with me, the Lonely Planet, the Moon Guide and the Rough Guide.
To New York Books...
In july and august 2000, Wouter, Karin, Pieter, Ernst and me went to the US.
After a first week in New York, we flew to Las Vegas,
and drove to Zion.
We camped at the rim of the Grand Canyon, and finally got into Bryce Canyon.
To Utah...
Leaving Bryce, we reached the Valley of the Gods, the starting point for the Four Corners Area.
Like I had expected, it was hard to really get a feeling for how life is, here, but it proved to be harder and
more complicated than I thought. In fact, you enter a third world country; the sour history of this place
comes to the surface, and is more complicated than I had learned in history books.
We needed to read more about this area, and come back later.
To Four Corners...
From the Four Corners area, we drove to Santa Fe (and visited the Bradbury Science Museum), were we spent a few days in the beautiful La Fonda hotel.
After that, we drove to Albuquerque, Cloudcroft and Columbus, and admired the landscape and the ghosttowns that we drove through. On this page, you will find the highlights of this trip.
To New Mexico...
From Columbus, New Mexico, we drove into the southern eastern part of Arizona, where we enjoyed the valleys, the desert, and Tucson.
Arizona is a very diverse state, and it is my personal favourite one.
To Arizona...
In February 1999, I was asked to attend a conference in San Antonio, Texas. I am very grateful to the program committee that
they chose San Antonio, because, as you will see, I fell in love with Texas.
We drove through Hill Country, and enjoyed the Big Bend area.
To Texas...
In November 1998, I was asked to attend a conference in Orlando, Florida. We discovered Florida on
a rented Harley Davidson.
Florida proved to be a great bird country.
To Florida...
