November 23, 2015
At first sight it seems that Long Beach is just a sattelite of huge Los Angeles, but if you look at the numbers, it turns out that the city is the 34th largest in the United States and the 7th largest in California. It is also one of the largest ports in the world, famous for its plane production, oil…
September 21, 2015
We have already talked about the 9/11 Memorial. Another “must see” attraction is the famous Empire State Building. Today Victor shares his impressions about his visit.
May 16, 2015
Cowboys are mainly associated with Westerns, and it is hard to imagine that one can meet them today. In fact, the tradition of cowboys is very much alive today, and they exist far beyond the movies. They grow cattle, train horses, participate in rodeo, and get together for the cowboy poetry evenings. In Oklahoma, we visited Cowboy museum to learn…
April 25, 2015
What do you know about Arkansas? Going there we only new that its name is similar to Kansas, but the state appeared to be quite famous.
March 29, 2015
It is difficult to find a person, who has never heard about the terrible events that took a place on September 11, 2001, when almost 3000 people were killed (24 of them missing).
November 29, 2014
Taos is the oldest continuously populated settlement of the USA, situated about 70 miles away from Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Indians still living here are considered to belong to Pueblo people, although it is important to understand that “Pueblo” is very much of overgeneralization, since its tribes are very different in languages, cultures, and traditions. For instance, the language…