After I left USA, I went to Usa. As you can see in top photo, Usa is a city in Kyushu, Japan. I was back to Japan on 19th Oct., and I took a late summer vacation for a week. My wife wanted to go to hot spring in Kyushu, so we went to Kyush…

The day to leave USA has come. The flight leaves State College at 6:40AM, so I got up 3AM. I called taxi at 4:30AM, but taxi company said, "we are busy this morning, so if you accept share-ride, we can pick you up." Thus I shared taxi (als…

At ESL (English as Secound Language class), I learned an interesting game named "Bocce Ball". It is played on lawn, and the purpose is to get the set point earlier than other players. A person throw small white ball as "Jack Ball". Then ea…

When I drove a car on quiet country road, I heard exhaust sounds like racing. They were not a sound by car. By chainsaw. They were holding "Lumberjack Competition"! I was very interested in it, and dropped into there. I found 2 different e…

When I saw ATV (all terrain vehicle) in the exhibition area in NASCAR on June, I was looking for the place where I could rent ATV. Finally I found it in Chatsworth, NJ. I arrived at Chatsworth on 1pm. I paid rent of ATV, wear, and entrance…

I wrote American vegetables were much bigger than Japanese one on Feb, but recently, I found pumpkin as the biggest vegetables, recently. It was appeared for Halloween. It was as big as basket ball! But the biggest pumpkins weren't in supe…

One guy said, 3 biggest cultural article of export from Japan are Manga, Suhi, and Karaoke. I already saw Manga at Otakon, Sushi at every sushi restaurant. But I've never seen Karaoke in U.S.. But I knew pizza restaurant in this town, High…

A day in summer, I found books about "Bonsai" at university bookstore. Not only anime, but also bonsai seems to attract Americans (although the attracted age would be different). I have never tried bonsai, but I made up my mind to go to Na…

A world famous circus, Cirque du Soleil has come to this small town! Although it costed +$10, I bought closest seat ticket. My seat was 5th row! Their play was so fantastic! But unfortunately, they didn't allow us to take a photo, so I hav…

When I was driving back from hot springs, I happened to visit a beautiful valley. When I was just crossing over the mountain ridge, fall-colored, vast meadow was spread out! This place was called "Canaan Valley". Similar to my impression, …

After climbing Seneca Rocks, I went to hot spring. First, I went to Warm Springs, VA. I arrived there at 9am, but it opens at 10am. So I walked around there. There was a spring at the garden, which generated a little smell of sulfur. It wa…

Recently, I didn't climb mountains and didn't take hot springs. So I decided to go to West Virginia. West Virginia has a famous mountains, Seneca Rocks. Seneca Rocks has 900feet vertical wall, so it is famous for rock climbing. I could wat…

The other day, we had a meeting with our professor. He asked us to do so much experiments. My Korean colleague complained, "We have bunch of things to do! I don't have enough time to spend with my family. My wife always complained about th…

Recently, I found many beers named "Oktoberfest". I knew "Oktoberfest" was a German harvest festival and we could drink bunch of beers! Many people would drink beers crazily like a person in left beer label!! I was looking for Oktoberfest …

Recumbent bike is a variety of bike which provides more easy riding position. It provides not only easier ride, but also faster ride than usual upright bicycle because it has lower height and less air resistance. Actually, world record of …

You may know our sushi got weird evolution in the U.S.. Today, I wanna introduce American sushi I have eaten so far. 1) California Roll (left) and Philadelphia Roll (Right) At first, sushi was the unappetizing food for Americans because no…

Sunday, my conversation partner Ryan, his girl friend Kali, and I had a drive to Hickory Run State Park. Ryan and I sometimes played frisbee so far, thus I invited him to play "Disk Golf" in the park. Kali happened to be in State College, …

The organization which I don't want to relate abroad is hospital and police. However, I was caught by police on Sunday. Last Sunday, I drove at I-80 to Cleaveland early in the morning. When I was driving at I-80, a patrol car came up at ve…

USAF Thunderbirds is a air demonstration squadron to exhibit the capabilities of modern high performance aircraft, and the high degree of professional skill required to operate these aircrafts. In order to watch USAF Thunderbirds air show,…

There are 4 major sports in the U.S.. That is, baseball, basket ball, ice hockey, and Football. It is a good question to ask what is the most popular in the U.S.. I don't know the answer, however, I can show you some interesting facts, the…

The last day of my trip, I visited 2 caves in TN. 1) Lost Sea Caverns This cave has the largest underground lake in the U.S. (18000m2). Thus I decided to go! However, it was very dark, it didn't make me feel it so large. But swinging light…

I tried skydiving first time. Is it safe for beginner to fly in the air at first time? Yes, because I flew in the building! Actually, I saw Japanese TV program which introduced this "Indoor Skydiving", and I found it on Great Smoky Mtns. I…

My brother who has lived NC for 3years recommended to visit Biltmore House because it is the largest house in U.S.. It had 16000square meters premise and 250 rooms! The Biltmore House was built by George Vanderbilt, grandson of "Railroad E…

I took a summer vacation (though it is only 4 days)! I chose Great Smoky Mountains as my destination because it contains the highest mountains in east of Mississippi river. When I reached Great Smoky Mountains, it was really smoky. I could…

One of the thing I wanted to do in U.S. was rafting. But when I was looking for a rafting company, I found a stupid festival in PA(http://www.fallsrace.com/). This is called "Over-the-Falls Festival"! There is a big waterfall in west Penns…

When I am shopping at American supermarket, sometimes I see foods whose color is uncommon in Japan. Yes, blue foods. Actually, a few foods in Japan has blue color. For example, some ice bars. Garigari-kun, Kaki-goori. However, I have never…

Pennsylvania has 2 major league baseball teams. One is Pittsburgh Pirates, the other is Philadelphia Phillies. Pirates have a Japanese pitcher, Kuwata. And last month, Phillies also got a Japanese 2nd-baseman, Iguchi. And they had last gam…

I heard Sentai-series was also popular in U.S.. A director loved Japanese Sentai-series so much, then he began remaking of Sentai-series in U.S.. He wanted to use same name with Japanese Sentai-series, however, ジュウレンジャー's name remi…

I have been to some state park to date, I found some trail had sign of horse. It means we can ride horses on that trail. However, few state park have horse rental. It means, we should bring our own horses. I don't know how many Americans h…

Pennsylvania faces to one of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie. Also there's a city whose name is Erie on the Lake Erie. Erie has a state park, Presque Isle State Park. "Presque Isle" means "almost an island" in French. This name expresses themse…