Weird things I have noticed until now…
· Beer bottles (Heineken) don’t have any indication about the percentage of alcohol the beverage contains.
· In addition the the obsession people have with ‘low fat’ food there is an even more popular obsession regarding ‘low carb’ foods. I hove no idea what this means but it looks like carbs are very much present in milk.
· If you are not driving on the freeway it is perfectly normal for the maximum speed limit to change every few hundred meters.
· In small town all the cables that are normally in the ground still hang in the air sopported by trees and wooden beams, just like in Spain.
· The roads here (including the roads for which you need to pay to get access) are quite often even worse that the roads in Belgium!!!
· It is possible to adopt a part of the highway… but I’m not sure why anyone would actually do that.· Here at Kinko’s it’s impossible to use MSN :-r

Yes, I have arrived in Syracuse. A little town that I passed heading for Niagara/Toronto. This morning I left Boston, the lobster city and this afternoon I finally discovered how the north/east/south/west principles work. :-p

This afternoon I also discovered that my car actually come equipped with cruise control. I was playing around with all the little buttons and handles on the steering wheel when suddenly the gas pedal disappeared. Driving the car is now simplified to steering and pressing the brake every now and then. The rest all goes automatically. I was already a lazy person, but this will now for sure get even worse.

A also got some gas this afternoon, because my car needed more energy to run the air-conditioning, the CD player and the cruise control. After getting the gas it became clear why the United States don’t mind to enforce their power in small oil rich countries… a full tank of gas cost me 20 dollars and for sure the tank I’ve got here holds much more fuel then the little Nissan I have at home.

Tomorrow I continue towards Niagara Falls and afterwards I’ll probably head over to Toronto.