USA
Our Top Picks For USA
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1 Black Hills
Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, bison, Deadwood: the Wild West lives!
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2 New York City
The USA’s must-see metropolis: 8 million people can’t be wrong
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3 New Orleans
Cajun and creole cookin’, beguiling bawdy culture, jazz and ahh - Mardi Gras
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4 Yellowstone National Park
Geysers, grizzlies, boiling mudpots, bison, wolves and wilderness
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5 Big Sur
Slow down for sunsets, crumbling cliffs, creaking redwoods and curvaceous Hwy 1
Fast Facts about USA
- Number of passengers in the air over the USA on average? 62,000
- Unemployment 9.5%
- Average number of TV channels in a US home
104
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
$11.9 trillion
- Military defense budget in 2006
$441.9 billion
- Inflation
2.6%
- Population
302 million
- Percentage of citizens who have passports
about 30%
Related Groups
Our favourite USA Blogs (beta)
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The Show is UP: G-Force Winds
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 9 July 2009
After last week's blustery Andrew Dice Clay chat, saxophonist Kenny G would seem like a light-hearted antidote. And he is, for the most part. But he also gets a bit crabby and snarky, so it was a good time all around. You know the drill: click on the date below to listen or right-click and save to your computer.
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Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Las Vegas, on TMZ re: Jackson!!!
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 9 July 2009
This is so great! Click on the image here and zoom ahead to about 1:46ish. The rest is nonsense.
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A bevy of MJ Memorial media notes
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 8 July 2009
The debate over whether all that attention and hullabaloo rendered to the passing of Michael Jackson bores me. What's the point of arguing over it? It is, as a former Texas governor once said outrageously of rape, like the weather: It's gonna happen, so just relax and enjoy it.
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Introducing USA
Paul Simon had such yearning in his voice when he sang, ‘I’ve gone to look for America,’ and anyone even vaguely familiar with this nostalgia-loving, future-obsessed, multiple-personality patchwork of a country can understand why.
If you’re looking for America, you might want to start somewhere in the middle – in the heartland’s undulating fields of grain, among the soaring Rocky Mountains or under the endless sky of the Southwest desert, its vast expanse changing color with each subtle shift of the sun. Or you could go south, into the velvet heat of the Carolinas or Mississippi, toward the wondrous wetlands of the Florida Everglades or the dusty dream-catcher towns of New Mexico. Then there are the salty coasts. New Jersey, Maine or Oregon – lands of lighthouses and dune grass. And don’t forget the cities. Brash New York, surreal Las Vegas, earthy San Francisco, indie-rock Austin, strong-willed New Orleans – each like a microcountry of its own. ***As of June 1, passport requirements for US & Canadian citizens have changed; see the Customs & Border Protection website for details***.
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Tips & articles
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Top Santa Cruz beaches
9 July 2009
Los Angeles may have Baywatch, but where California’s beaches are concerned, Santa Cruz more than...
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Top 10 films about California
9 July 2009
If you go to the movies, you’ve been to California. It’s no surprise that Hollywood’s...
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California road trips
8 July 2009
California is the third-largest state in the USA, and you could easily spend weeks navigating its blue...
Latest headlines for USA
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New GM enrols ex chief boy scout
10 July 2009 5:22PM
"Be prepared" - Edward Whitacre Jr, the chairman of the new GM, is a former national president of the Boy Scouts of America.
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Migrants change track to beat recession
10 July 2009 4:35PM
The current recession will be the worst in a generation and migrants are changing their destinations as a result
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Swine flu infects Argentine economy
10 July 2009 12:11PM
Service industries and especially tourism are feeling the effects of swine flu in Argentina, reports BBC Mundo's Veronica Smink.
