United States of America

My karate tournament happening in Long Beach, California this year was only the beginning of my United States of America trip, where I truly began exploring the huge continental country, unlike five years ago, when I only briefly visited Las Vegas and the Hoover Dam.

During the same karate tournament, me and my dad visited the Universal Studios theme park in Hollywood. This was a fun day because we explored actual movie set studios through a tour bus, walked through an amazing house of horrors maze, got launched into a Jurassic Park water ride and enjoyed the crowded area's.

Next, returning to Las Vegas, we walked down the whole strip atleast once, I won money on my mom's favorite fruit machine called Heaven's Bells in the Wynn hotel, we saw a great comedic, erotic and zombified show called Zombie Burlesque, we went to the world famous Pawn Stars pawnshop and once again enjoyed the hysteria, the madness and the fake objects of Sin City.

At the same time, I went on the Area 51 tour hosted by Adventure Photo Tours in order to experience the mystery, conspiracies, propaganda and UFO culture surrounding the off limits military base where it is rumoured with all kinds of information happening there, such as alien research, secret military weapons and new bizarre aircrafts being developed.

I was interviewed and featured for an article based in Las Vegas because a reporter and his photographer went along the tour alongside an English couple and our veteran guide himself. I think it's cool that many Americans have read this article by now either online or in a newspaper in that city, depicting me in the main photo and quoting several lines: Area 51 Tour

As my dad was about to leave towards home, I continued my journey at the state of Florida, where I would hire a Chevrolet Spark and do a roadtrip, going to the majority of the highlights to be found there.

Starting with the JFK Space Center, me and my nephew and cousin visited that historic site for NASA activity, bewondering ourselves with the many accomplishments of spacecraft which have happened here.

Next, after saying goodbye to my family, I spend a full day at Walt Disney World, visiting 1 of the 4 theme parks established there; Epcot, a scientific and sci-fi oriented park, offering enough attractions and international restaurants for me to walk through.

After returning to the city of Miami and setting foot inside a motel close to the international airport and the famous Miami Beach, I started planning the rest of my days here and around southern Florida.

First, upon visiting the Everglades National Park, I discovered that this turned out to be much bigger than anticipated, so I scheduled a second day visit for this location. Amongst other flora and fauna, I saw wild alligators, grasshoppers, turtles, rare birds and I visited the famous Everglades Alligator Farm, where I held a snake and a young alligator!

Inbetween, I rested at the southern part of Miami Beach in order to relax and recharge myself, because once again I couldn't help but to plan and manage my time as much as possible, which I love to do. I read several great books here in leisure, such as Animal Farm, The Prince and Benny Urquidez's autobiography.

I drove all the way from Miami to Key West and back in order to stay for a few hours to walk around this beautiful city, visiting iconic places such as Sloppy Joe's Bar and the southern most point of continental US.

As for my final stop during this trip, I visited a very special place which turned out to be my personal highlight out of them all. But because I am about to write about this day in the nearby forseeable future instead, I won't mention it here just yet.

The United States of America, so many strange cultures have shaped and developed here. Who doesn't love them? Military bases around the world, a very dedicated gunlaw and culture intact, fat people everywhere, racism is quite common and they act as the global police.

It is also the land of the free, the American Dream, discounts and specials are everywhere, bigger and more products are cheaper than smaller and less, it's heavily religious, expensive health care, it has multiculture at it's finest and it has the most prisons in the world.

But the USA has also brought a ton of interesting developments to the rest of us as well, such as the craziest entertainment being available in the world, a booming film industry, a heavy sports culture and it popularized fast food joints or hamburgers in general.

So I am glad for my most recent trip, I am glad for how infuential the USA in general is, and I am glad for having been able to do all of the things I wanted to do in this massive country. I am sure that I will definitely return to see more interesting cities such as New York, San Francisco, Chicago and more!