On this trip, we are travelling from New York to Miami Beach in fifteen days. It was our second visit to the US, and again we would like to take you there, together with all the memories that remained of this holiday. Initially, it was our intention to do a trip throughout Canada, from coast to coast. But when we wanted to confirm this trip, the travel agency told us that it was completely sold out already. That’s the result of the lousy economy and the fact, that people are having a hard time because of it. The expensive and exclusive trips through Canada are sold out first.. A thought, that I can’t get out of my head. Anyway, within a few days we had to come up with a good alternative for this rather disappointing news. We had already done a trip through the US from coast to coast a couple of years ago and seen so many beautiful places, that a different trip through the US seemed like a good option. Then we found this trip, that went from New York to Miami Beach. It brought us through the musical cities such as Memphis (blues), Nashville (country, Elvis) to New Orleans (jazz, dixie), and then down to Florida. Since we’re both great music lovers, it looked like the perfect trip to us. I don’t want to reveal any of our experiences in the beginning of this story, but I have to admit, that the first trip was a lot more impressive than this one. Maybe because we already had explored the beautiness of this immense big country the first time around. So we were quite used to the giant sized burgers and gallons of coca cola. However, the East side of this country doesn’t have the same beauty, that we experienced at the West side, and I am talking about the beautiful nature of the USA. Still, there was a lot to enjoy and to explore. And this already started at day one, when we travelled from Leerdam to Amsterdam, and then on to New York City.
Please join us on this next adventure, when we describe what we saw, who we met, and like always I will also take sidesteps and give you my thoughts about things that came to discussion during this trip and are typical for this area. It’s good to spend some words to these matters as well and to give you an idea, that our holidays are not only based on discovering new things, travelling and enjoying life, because we keep focussed on other things as well, as you will read later on in this story. Let’s start with day one, where we travel from The Netherlands to the USA. Fasten your seatbelts, because we will soon be leaving ground!

Day 1 Leerdam-New York