{"id":248,"date":"2015-02-13T21:11:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T21:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sevenseasadventure.net\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2015-03-22T07:40:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T07:40:20","slug":"us-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventures.liviupetri.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"US-Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our trip to the US had multiple motivations behind. One was to offer Paul a (lame) compensation for not going to Galapagos. For us, was a breath of chillier air and searching for new places to visit.<\/p>\n<p>We landed in Miami late in the evening and, maybe due to my tan, everyone addressed at first in Spanish (even a very kind police officer who helped us finding our car rental agency). It felt good to speak again Spanish but I changed to English soon as, I have to admit my Spanish is not good enough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sevenseasadventure.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/miami.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-249\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sevenseasadventure.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/miami-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Miami\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventures.liviupetri.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/miami.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventures.liviupetri.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/miami.jpg?w=526&amp;ssl=1 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The car we rented was supposed to be a compact but we received a much longer one (longer than the VW Touareg, the biggest car I ever owned). The trunk was so deep that in order to collect some things from the bottom, I really had to slide in to reach them.<\/p>\n<p>We stopped in Fort Lauderdale for two nights&#8230;nothing special. We didn&#8217;t made it into Miami (city) and this was the beginning of a trip during which we didn&#8217;t see any big city, except for a short stop in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>We were served at a terrace by a young Slovakian girl and I asked her how was her life there: &#8220;Tough!&#8221; she replied but was confident that this will change in time. She arrived there just a few months before, alone, and hoped that things will change once she will get to know more people.<\/p>\n<p>Next stop, Disneyland, Orlando.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our trip to the US had multiple motivations behind. One was to offer Paul a (lame) compensation for not going to Galapagos. For us, was a breath of chillier air and searching for new places to visit. 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