2013/08/25: The Crescent

The Crescent makes a 2,200 km journey between two of the best cities in the world: New Orleans and New York, between “Big Easy” and “Big Apple”. The landscape looks partly almost European, some rivers, trees and fields could also be located between Orléans and York in the old world. But this is the new world, these are the United States of America – to be correct, these are eleven states of America: Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. Having arrived in New York, we altogether travelled through 25 states (between Vancouver and New Orleans we had Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi), so every second American state was part of our tour. As the landscapes gets more European, the train conductors get more unfriendly (to be exactly: he’s a stupid asshole) and the trains less comfortable. The trains are faster and more punctual than in the western parts of this huge country, the population density is higher. Obviously the East Coast is closer to Europe. The first time since about four weeks my time difference to Europe is “only” six hours. Having switched the time seven times in the last weeks, I will keep Eastern Time now for the next for months.
The last stop before I fell asleep yesterday evening was in Atlanta, Georgia, host city of 1996 Olympic Summer Games and headquarter of Coca Cola and CNN. Now we’re already in Virginia, one of our next stops will be Washington D.C., the capital of the third largest country in the world. Via Baltimore and Philadelphia we will reach New York. I’m looking forward to this last great highlight along the longest holiday travel I ever did.