Baltimore again

And so my trip came to an end in Baltimore. Where so many memories and hopes and whatever have grown during my stay in USA.

Nearly 3 months have passed since I am back in Europe and probably makes little sense to remember all my feelings of the time now, that they are gone. But I will never forget my trip experience. It has been a beautiful trip in myself even before than in a foreign continent.

thank to everybody who has been my audience. Let's see if next trip to USA I can revive this website!

Me in Baltimore smiling for what have been and what will be.

Nashville & Tennessee Pictures

My last days were spent in Tennessee which is one of the most stereotypical American places I have been visiting. At least for an European

 Grand Ole Opry. So many cowboys hats. And religious gospels. And Veterans.

Doesn't look like a huge Batman cap?

Nice fountain in Nashville

The biggest weapon store in USA. That was way too much for me to digest.

New Orleans Picture

The complex story of New Orleans comes out constantly as you walk down its narrow street and its low houses. 

A music group playing music nearly in the middle of the road

The Cathedral of New Orleans

 I don't think you can park here

Marie Laveau the priestess of Vodooo

Jean Lafitte National Park

Austin Pictures

There is something different in Austin from the rest of Texas I have been traveling through. Probably the motto "keep Austin weird" is well deserved.

Sant Antonio & Gruene Pictures

Very brief time spent in the two locations; Gruene is quite fictional but it's beautiful in being stopped in at least some 50 years ago. San Antonio has a very nice walk on the canal.. ok, the Venice of Texas?

Carlsbad Caverns NP Pictures

Who doesn't like spelunking? Carlsbad Caverns is massive and beautiful. Sadly light in the caverns is not the easiest task for my camera (which is also my phone).

El Paso Pictures

El Paso is a nice city. In some moments you notice to be in Texas, at the same time vast majority of people will speak to you in Spanish and all the New Mexico stuff to bay (like Natives classical touristy gifts) is still there.

Images below are from the Museum of Art, which is in fact quite enjoyable. 

White Sands National Monument Pictures

This has been one of the most magical stop during my trip. White Sands is like a desert made of gypsum and the reflection of light on the white surface is incredible. Similarly it's incredible to feel the soft dust going everywhere around be so different from sands.

Phoenix Botanical Garden Pictures

Ciao,

my time in Phoenix was super short in fact, I had just the time to have dinner and the day after go to the Desert Botanical Garden before leaving. Therefore I will just upload a few pics to remember my time there

Did you know that Agave and Aloe are completely different in origin?!

It really looked like the desert!

Sedona Pictures

Sedona was a beautiful discover. There was no mention of it in my guide. In fact even if it's a little "too perfect" and definitely home to some rich, white, posh, old/family tourism, it is a nice jewel.
I am not the type of person to like such remarks but random shop's owner told me: "god created Grand Canyon, but he settled down in Sedona". Well, that's what he said.
I will only add that I think I visited just 2 or 3 churches in USA and the one is Sedona was definitely worth. Great idea to construct such a building on the mountain!

Enjoy the pictures

This is the church! Buil less than 100 years ago is definitely a stunning building!

Tuba City, Navayo Indian Reservation Pictures

Travelling through an Indian Reservation was ambivalent. As you can see in the pics the landscape is beautiful and the land from one side looks endless. But round the corner (3rd pics) are the slums where people live. 

Places with a raped past, a desolate present and a struggling future, as events in North Dakota are showing just in these days.

Grand Canyon Pictures

Ciao all, the haphazard editing through the thousands of picture I took this summer continue. Grand Canyon shares with the other National Parks the stunning beauty. Watching these images (in fact for the first time after my travel) is always stunning. Were I really there?! Did I manage to do/see all of it? 

It's just a beautiful country. If you manage to preserve it this way.