I actually planned of going to Europe in March 2000, but then I met one young woman Jacklyn in Miami Beach and then I visited some Holocaust memorials in Miami Beach and all these events changed my mind and then I lived over two years in my auto in America, it has been a long time now but those were interesting times, but then somehow in 2002 I received some info that my father needed help here in Europe and then I left America. One never knows how things go.
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It is an excellent Holocaust memorial, one hand reaching for help and all people are reaching too … I recommend anybody to visit …
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I saw a lot of interesting things when I lived in my car, too. I wouldn’t recommend it as a course of action, though. Most parts of it definitely sucked.
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Yes, living in an auto was not always so comfortable, but I suppose people can learn, I spent a lot of my time at the university libraries and then I drove in many places, twice across America and back, there are people who dream of doing this, I would say that I saw America in many different ways, f.ex. driving in New York City when it was dark, sleeping in my auto in Beverly Hills in Cal, and so on. It was a different life then, but I was young (32 years old). 12 times I was stopped by cops but nothing was wrong. Net fishing in Key West, market search in Atlanta and so on. It was different then.
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Nowadays, a lot of states have made it illegal to live in your car. You can actually be thrown in jail for just not having somewhere to live. It’s pretty sad.
I had always a mailbox address in Miami, I got my mail there. I got my Florida driver’s license. I know things are different now in the US.
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America used to be more free but after 911 everything started changing, more restrictions, more laws and so on, somehow it is sad …
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Somehow this song, Ride, can illustrate how I felt how my life was then … America used to be free, but she has changed, maybe, in a wrong direction … I am glad I experienced America when things were different, free …
@mjseu the advantage America had( and still has) is a fairly easy to learn language.
I like China very much, but I doubt that I will manage to be literate in Chinese…
In America there are many different languages, for example Chinese in NYC, in my old life I purchased the Chinese dictionary and the game of Chinese chess in the Chinese district in NYC. I still have that game with me. I never learned Chinese.
thats beautiful…
I think that Chinese alphabet( the characters) are difficult to learn for most foreigners…
A language with a regular alphabet appears much more accessible…
There are many languages in the US, but if you seek to work and function English is by far the most important.