November 2011

　I’ve enjoyed the past weeks in New Orleans and then Key West. Both places looked to be very different from the rest of US I’ve visited so far. I guess that my itinerary of this journey was a wise one, although if you start from the West Coast, this would be the natural course of the American tour. Anyhow if I had started from these two cities, I might have found it difficult to continue with the incentive of the journey.

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　It is not so easy a task to do a traveling like mine in the USA. I don’t drive. I don’t fly. I just visit places by either by train or by bus. That’s fine as long as there is a public transportation available. I would not mind walking some distance to a station or bus stop if I had to. At least it burns my surplus fat I seem to be gaining in this journey.
　In one recent trip to Oxford, Mississippi I had some difficulty as there was virtually no ordinary public transportation available into Oxford from nearby cities.
　However what makes me really sad is not only that. But it is the fact that in this country the sidewalks often disappear suddenly in front of your eyes. Oh, how many times I had to look for walk-able pass nearby and negotiate crossing busy streets to the opposite side for more walk-able pass. It is not only dangerous but also depressing, especially if you find your only shoes sopped in muddy grass after a rain of the previous night. On such occasion it hits you that this country’s roads have been constructed for the sake of cars first of all, not for pedestrians.

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