Things I’ve learnt about the USA since arriving in San Francisco
We have just had the most touristy day ever. Fisherman’s Wharf en route to the Alcatraz ferry at Wharf 33. Alcatraz. Then a Go Car (basically a go cart with GPS that you can take around the streets in SF).
At the bottom of America’s crookedest street (viewed from Go Car).
Key facts noted:
- The food is cheaper than in Australia
- You know the peculiar cognitive dissonance as CGI animation gets better at portraying humans? The US is like that. Everything’s so familiar and yet so weird at the same time
- People are very friendly, especially in shops, but they don’t like it when you change your mind or go against the rules
- Everything is bigger: seagulls, tee-shirts on hip hop kids and jocks, number of tatts on emo girls working in supermarkets, people, buildings, traffic signs, food serves, SUVs
- Infrastructure is old - concrete cancer riddles the concrete roadways, the street signs are battered and lop-sided, pot holes are everywhere
- There is concrete everywhere. I can see why so many kids skateboard. I want a deck too
- Girls giggle a lot
- Most of the tourists are American. I like seeing them in their native habitat
So cold. Feels like snow weather. Can’t believe we’re going back out.
