Size matters

I guess my first impressions of the US were quite typical for being a European’s: feeling like you were beamed right into a movie. Confused by meaningless „how are you“-conversations with strangers. And astonished by the enormous size of basically everything. Of course cars are bigger than in Europe and so are the streets, as […]

Way out west

I remember how I already as a kid had wanted to travel to the United States – because of the landscape, not the people, as I always stressed. I admit, I had a lot of prejudices. Which means that being invited by a friend from Colorado was probably the best thing that could have happened. […]