Notable Places in the USA (AKA Heaven on Earth but with more crime):
NEW YORK Good Points: Northern New York State hosts the beautiful Niagara Falls, a huge, awe-inspiring must-see, beautiful in any season. Also a short hop away from Canada for you hockey fans. NF also has a casino, a *really* low-priced gas-station/store run by the Senneca nation, and a couple museums (including one on modern art, IIRC).
New York City, of Frank Sinatra song fame, of course has all the bright lights and tall buildings, including the Empire State Building (sans giant ape) and DC Comics head quarters. There's also a whole bunch of other stuff. *EVERYTHING* is in NYC.
Bad Points: Keep an eye on your wallet in NYC. Also, unless you're used to watching thousands of large-screen televisions at once, you may spend the first few days with your eyes glued to the sidewalk.
The City of Niagara Falls is, alas, very empty at the moment, but there is still an active tourist industry.
Philadelphia Good Points: Our nation's first capitol and the birthplace of the revolution, Philly is brimming with history. Museums, statues, and fountains are everywhere. Also, Philly is noted for being the vessel by which God gave us Hoagies, Cheese-steaks, and Soft Pretzels.
Bad Points: Crime, graffiti, and the fact that few people born in Philadelphia manage to escape. Oh, and most of the people who make the hoagies are now living in...
Florida Good points: Fun! Sun! Disney World, Universal Studios, Sea World, and even a theme park based on African animals and *beer*! You name it, we have a theme park for it. Also beaches; lots and lots of beaches. Of course, the crown of the state is Sarasota, a city built by art-loving circus people! (I kid you not, see the Ringling Art museum and watch the movie about John and Mable Ringling). Whereas South Florida is much like Yankee land (only sunnier and more up-beat); North Florida has all the rustic charm of Dixie, with cotton-covered country-side, Southern hospitality and people who say 'Ah' instead of 'I'.
Also, Florida is a *wonderful* place to be in winter.
Bad Points: Any time other than February, though, it's just *really*, *really* HOT. Also, be wary of the South American menace known as FIRE ANTS. These bugs are *not* your typical, happy-go-lucky ants. They have red heads & bodies and black bottoms, and they are on a mission to destroy humanity. Fire-ants bite *and* sting, the result being something that hurts like----Michigan. They have also been known to gang up on people. If you look around the ground virtually *anywhere*, you may see cones of sand/dirt with a hole going down the center, or a *HONKIN' BIG PILE* of dirt/sand with so many holes it looks like swiss cheese.
That's them.
Keep your feet *covered*, or else wear something that will not impede the need to immediately wash your feet with a hose.
Also, we get mosquitos the size of B47s.
California Good Points: .... Wait, gimme a minute.... Okay. Full House was filmed there.
Bad Points: California is the place where we keep our crazy people. A few normals may have gotten mixed in either through employment issues or just sheer accident, but mostly it is a very large asylum which borders on being its own country. Approximately 90% percent of California's population suffers from the delusion that they are brilliant actors who will be discovered and put in movies someday. Avoid this place at all costs.
Also, California oranges are woefully inferior to Florida oranges.
And we have better theme parks.
Florida rocks.
United States Cuisine: Regional dishes in the US include Chinese Food, Itallian Food, Mexican Food, Tex-Mex, and Hamburgers.
What else do you expect from a nation that was founded and built by foreigners?
Of course, if you want to shoot for 'Classic Americana', you may try Cracker Barrel. CB is a combination restaurant/store that serves southernish dishes and has cool old-timey American things on the walls like 1900's advertisements for this new-fangled thing called "detergent".
