Summary of America

This entry is just my thoughts and feelings that I have gathered about America in the last 56 days. So first, i was always under the impression that America was customer service is there number one priority. After my stay i now believe this isn’t the case for the following reasons. The hostel staff in all bar one of the hostels we stayed in where largely very unhelpful. The information booth at Pier 39 gave us the same impression. The staff at restaurants and bars got really annoyed if you asked for a different drink or to have your meal served a different way to than the usual requests they had. Secondly tipping, i HATE tipping. I know its part of their culture but when you don’t have enough change to tip them, which doesn’t happen often because the larger half of your change is made up of one dollar notes. They get really annoyed and even arsey. If you don’t tip at a bar, the bar staff will ignore you until you end up shouting at them. The last thing, TAX, I hated the tax system out there. Why not just add the tax to the final price. For example you see a deal on beer, $10 for a case say. When you get to the counter you end up paying another $4 for tax, it got me every time. Same with most food.
On the bright side, California has awesome weather we were sun bathing on Pacific beach on the 13th of November. The public transport out there is cheap and reliable. Metro buses, Trains and trams always ran on schedule. We also meet loads of cool mates, some I’ll never see again, and some I’ll see in Oz in a few months.
56 days in America was plenty, I sometimes wish we’d gone to more states but i plan to go back at some point to drive from the east to west coast.