A survival story...

Alors voilà.

Some months ago, we did it, we bought them: we had our flight tickets for New York and Washington DC! Thumbs up!! Still, it was in September. And it felt so good…! And now, here we are!!

LET THE TRIP BEGIN!!

Once upon a time, a niggardly (gierig / avare) Dutch man and an arrogant French girl decided to quit their comfortable lives to experience the world differently, learn more about the human being and also about themselves. Their chosen area? South America!

“South America! And only with your back-packs and your tent? Wow!! Awesome guys! So cool: you’ll stop wherever you want and wash yourselves in the rivers – you’re adventurers guys!” Well, yeah… We kind of are on our way to reach that path…!

For now, thanks to the Dixons, Arthur’s old host family, we spend a couple of weeks in the US, Maryland, in their beautiful and cozy house, surrounded by amazing nature! 

   Getting down to the ground...

After 2 days here, we have finally dealt with the jet lag and we can help more and more the Dixons on many different things: gardening, cooking, repairing computers, drinking Tom’s homemade beers - it does help, for sure!!

Ow yep, we are busy!!

Even when it is rainy weather. Here for example, Arthur just started his new mission: smashing hard drives.

Thankfully, the US culture has a lot to reward us – and make some of us crazily happy!!

Taco Bell!!!!!!!

Homemade pancakes!!!!!

Evelien, you told me that I lost weight, right?

As you can see, I’m working on it!!

And just for your eyes and imagination, enjoy below what we see as we have breakfast or lunch – and diner, about the same, but with sunset colors.

Let's end with our first step: New York!

When you have less than 10 hours to discover a city like New York, including check in and check out, finding a locker for your luggage and reach the city center, well, what do you chose to see? Easy: you chose it all!

In other words, we've seen:

-         - Statue of Liberty => check, from the plane

-         - Time square => check

-        - Central Park => check

-        - Empire state building => check

-        - Broadway avenue => check

-        - Macy’s, the big kind-of-Galeries-Lafayette of New York => check

In between, we spent our time being flabbergasted by busy Broadway Avenue, big, noisy and everywhere lighted, crowded with people and advertisement on every building. The amount of details, colors and movement in this avenue must be so inspiring for a writer!

I met my dream in a shop full of cheesecakes and Arthur, after a looooong fight of 12 minutes with his conscience, cracked and ran in a Taco Bell restaurant!

And we shared a coffee time with Stephanie... in a Starbuck of course!!

Then back to the train to reach the airport aaaaaand, in the train station: time for a big and tasty great hamburger!!!

“And how would you like your meat?” Aaaaah…! I loooove this question! "Rare please” And heaven opens its doors…

And I’ll close this post on this tasty sentence. Mmmmhhh!!!!

Time for us to buy some groceries in the typical US malls!

Cheers,

A&A