Coming to America America has been good to me, but it is coming to an end, in just a few days time I will be out of here and living on an island. Looking back I have often been unbelievably harsh on the country and it's people, but then for all of it's alluring charm and intrepidness, it can be equally a great place to live as it can be frustrating and brazen.

America is however a fascinating land. Vast, captivating, advanced, backward, beautiful and scary. Each state a country on it's own, the country being coalesced together into the east-coast, midwest, west-coast, south-east etc frankly does it a disservice. There are not two places alike and whilst other huge countries break up into smaller fragments, it amazes me how the US stays shoulder to shoulder as one. You have to give it to them, they are a proud and patriotic race.

I have been fortunate and have seen a fair bit of this world, nevertheless I have come across some towns and cities in this country that are unlike anywhere else I have seen. It is said that the cognoscente live on the coasts and around the Great Lakes, that the lands in the middle don't matter and sure crossing the Mississippi River can be like stepping out of a time machine, but believe me, it is all worth exploring just to seek the boundless diffences between the places and it's 304 million people, of whom either themselves or their ancestors began life in another part of the world.

One thing America does is asked to be travelled. In my time here I have visited 31 of it's 50 states and with Bermuda being so accessible I will hope to add to that total in time. I have met many amazing, inquisitive and friendly people, as I have strange, unworldly but still friendly people.

One thing that's true though is that coming to America was a wonderful decision, a truly life changing experience and I would recommend it to anyone.  ¶ 02:14