The American Dream
I moved to the US, Chicago, in March 2019. "Thank" to the pandemic and my visa situation, I wasn't allowed to leave the country for about 3 years hence I started traveling domestically. After 3 years I got my green card, I can travel abroad but there are still tons of places I want to see in this weird and wonderful place called America
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Day 6: Charleston SC to Savannah GA
Oak trees and a pantagruelian banquet in Georgia
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Day 4 and 5: Asheville NC to Charleston SC
Scenic roads, pink buildings, tons of seafood and a billion mosquitoes in Charleston
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Day 2 and 3: Frankfort KY to Asheville NC
"Put some South in your mouth"
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Day 1: Chicago IL to Frankfort KY
Fried chicken, corn pudding and bourbon tasting in Kentucky
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American cities
From New York to LA, from Chicago to Seattle, the US is not short of incredible cities. I started visiting this part of the world where I was still living in London. At first was NYC, multiple times. When I started working for Expedia Group, whose headquarter is in Seattle, I started traveling for work to the emerald city and, every time on my way back I was stopping in a new, different city. Since I now live in Chicago, I planned to visit more and more mid-size American cities. The 2020 pandemic didn’t help in that sense and for over 1 year I didn’t leave Illinois or even the…
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Route 66 – The ultimate American road trip
Driving the route 66 from Chicago to LA has always been a dream of mine. In 2021 since, due to covid restrictions and the status of my green card application, I was not allowed to leave the country, I decided to embark in a 2 weeks epic journey on one of the most iconic road on planet Earth.
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Day 14: Barstow CA to Santa Monica CA
Day 14: Barstow CA to Santa Monica CA. The grand finale. The last 155 miles of my road trip from Chicago to Los Angeles on the historic Route 66
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Day 13: Kingman AZ to Barstow CA
Postcard from Barstow, California. 241 miles in a oven. I left early to avoid the expected heatwave but it wasn’t early enough.Today’s leg started with some series of nervous narrow turns, in and out on the mountains leading to the ghost town of Oatman, now a kind of Disneyland for western movie lovers. After that, the Route 66 enters California, skirting the southern part of the Mojave desert and it is just nothingness, lizards crossing the roads and burning temperatures. Kinda beautiful. One more sleep to the grand finale. Driving from Kingman to Barstow Cheat Sheet Accommodation in Barstow, CA Where to eat and what to see between Kingman, AZ…
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Day 12: Sedona AZ to Kingman AZ
That time I had an hot dog and a milkshake in the desert
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Day 11: Chambers AZ to Sedona AZ
Here it is!
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Day 10: Bluff UT to Chambers AZ
"He ran for three years, two months, fourteen days, and sixteen hours. And just like that, his running days were over...."
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Day 9: Gallup NM to Bluff UT
That day I did a laundry in an empty, ghostly automatic laundromat in the southern Utah desert...