Archive of Traveling the US

While Austria is still failing to ban smoking in closed public places (like restaurants, bars, etc.), California state law already restricts smokers. Probably for the first time, Austria came first in banning something that CA had allowed until July 1, 2008: Driving and Talking (on a cellphone) or Talking (on a cellphone) and Driving.
Safer Roads [...]

It’s been a year since I took off by plane to the Golden State. It’s been a year and I just can’t believe. A lot of things happened since then and this fact really proves that time flies. Working at Dynea, passing my community service and all the experiences that come along with it. At [...]

In the US, intersections and the upcoming yield, stop or traffic light are not only announced by signs to the right of the street but also with big letters painted on streets. You read the word that is closer to you first, followed by the one that is further away. So for example, STOP AHEAD [...]

Is there any truth in this rumor? YES.
Last summer my host family and I were in the family van headed north to go some place, probably San Francisco or San José. We passed an In-N-Out and each of us was starving (we probably skipped breakfast) and were ready to throw in some real American food, [...]

People sometimes approach me with the question why I particularly like the city of San Francisco. Well, if a city has the following quality, I’d rate it as special and thus totally worth living there: A city that beautiful in the early morning hours that it would make you get up and take a morning [...]

This time wouldn’t have been the last time.
Urban citizens claim that cities have a certain flow. A flow of arts, spirit and even fashion. In the case depicted above us (my liebe Readers should know this city by now. San Francisco), I can most definitely confirm that there is a compelling vibe, an atmosphere caught in-between [...]

Listing reason why to love New York City probably takes ages and why have words ruin the magnetic(ally) appealing atmosphere of a city that never sleeps. New York at sun set must be a thing of beauty and pictures can only give you the tiniest bit of an idea of what goes through your mind [...]

Oh, what a lovely connection. Innocent Scottish sheep meets kinky weirdo Austrian meets perfidiously maliciously megalomanic American. See the brand new bubblesnaps (link to a list of bubblesnaps entries on PHB) from December 07 and January 08.