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UNITED STATES · North America

The US East Coast

VAvalevalegas ·21 photographs ·23 Sep 2006 – 6 Oct 2006 ·14 days
Where
New York, Boston, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Gettysburg, Washington, Philadelphia
When
23 Sep 2006 – 6 Oct 2006
14 days · trip of 2006
Who
VALENTINA · @valevalegas · TOSCANA
How
Travel diary
The story

Here it is! The trip of trips (for now…when I go to Australia maybe we'll talk again!)…Pure pleasure, delight and joy discovering the north-east triangle of the United States. People of every race and culture, executives, office workers, rich folk, babysitters, taxi drivers, cleaners, porters, waiters, personal trainers…you find everything…and more! Everything they show you in the films is there…even the star out on the streets with his bodyguards…everything! everything! everything!!! I loved every moment and everything: the leaf fallen from a tree in Central Park (which I even took home with me!), the sprays of water from Niagara Falls that soak you completely despite the blue k-way they give you! the lawns of Harvard where you see tomorrow's brainboxes busy with their laptops, the Amish driving their horses along a road that back home would be considered a highway, the children on a sch

ool trip to the Bronx Zoo (of every colour: Hispanic, Chinese, black and white!)…everything…and even the disgusting smell of the strange hot-dog sauces that you smell from the morning along the streets of Manhattan…how can they swallow that stuff at 8 o'clock!???…it was better than I expected! I'll never forget the view of Manhattan from Brooklyn at 10 in the evening, just as I'll never forget the view from the Empire or from the Top of the Rock, the ride in a limousine, the helicopter tour, the feelings at seeing the children's drawings at Ground Zero!… There aren't enough words in the dictionary to describe my emotions on those days…maybe I need just one word: "TOO"…too beautiful…too big…too longed-for…too too too!!!! UNFORGETTABLE!

The journey's photographs

21 photographs · click to open them full screen

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Times Square: buses and skyscrapers with bright HSBC, Samsung and Coca-Cola billboardsWashington Monument reflected in the Reflecting Pool, Capitol dome behind, gray skyThe White House behind trees with fountain and red flowerbeds, gray skyThe Capitol in Washington framed by branches, green lawn, gray skyThe White House with fountain and red flowerbeds under grey skyThe CN Tower in Toronto against blue sky with the Canadian flagTour boat sailing toward the rising mist of Niagara FallsNiagara Falls: white water curtains over rocks, mist rising above green riverHandwritten child's message on white sign recalls a beach picnic memoryAmish horse and buggy traveling along a rainy mountain roadsideWhite three-masted schooner moored at the harbor next to a red tugboatWedding ceremony under a domed gazebo in a leafy green parkWhite sailboats glide on the river in front of Boston's skyscrapersPrinted pasta menu: eggplant parmigiana, linguine alla Viareggina, spaghetti and meatballsMoose plush wearing red Mountie uniform and hat riding a toy horse in shopWhite plate with brownies, cookie, chocolate cake and chocolate-covered strawberries on tableOrange pumpkins displayed on wooden crates outside a farm standWhite wooden house with porch and American flag among tall treesWilliamsburg Bridge lit up at night over the East River, New YorkChildren playing the giant lighted floor piano at FAO Schwarz, New YorkManhattan phone directories and Yellow Pages stacked on a wooden cabinet

2 reader comments

emagallo62 · 15/12/2006

siamo daccordo con te è un viaggio indimenticabile e pieno di emozioni.noi la notte non riuscivamo a dormire,malgrado la stanchezza,per la frenesia di vedere e vivere la bellissima,caotica ma affascinante e divertentissima GRANDE MELA.vedrete le nostre foto appena possibile.ciao manu e sergio

carlomiraz · 04/04/2007

le foto mi sembrano un tantino scure. Il tuo racconto troppo breve è comunquè il più eccitato ed eccitante di quelli letti sinora Complimenti, attendo l'Australia

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