3088 Back into the United States of Vespuccia. (7th time)
3090 Two worlds with as many differences as two nebulae.
3091 Miami: errands over 1,232 kilometers without ever leaving town.
3096 A convenient outer coast to protect the main coast.
3097 An impressive giant, right off the coast: Gulf Stream.
3097 Neighborhoods not to venture in without knowledge of Spanish.
3098 Ethnic friendliness and unfriendliness.
3100 Society of wastefulness.
3101 Unnecessary noise, way of life.
3104 Excesses in one society, as censurable as the contrary excesses in
3105 A Spanish monastery in America, older than anything built by Spaniards in >>>>>America: 1141.
3108 A road, intriguing on map, sickening in fact.
3108 Dolphin research.
3115 Medusas.
3116 Short course in marketing.
3119 Tomato harvest.
3120 National Park, so mismanaged that the animals stay outside.
3121 The Cimarrones, that is, Seminoles.
3123 Corkscrew, bird sanctuary; for purists.
3125 Why do people by so many millions pile up in such a fragile and dangerous >>>>>environment; and where is the government that is supposed to govern them?
3125 Random mass-murders in public places; latest: 6 dead-, 14 wounded people, >>>>>in supermarket.
3126 Museum of Conchography.
3130 Here started the ill-fated Hernando de Soto exploration, 1540.
3132 News: black murderers get death sentence more often than white murderers.
3133 Two churches: one, Catholic, modern; one, Orthodox, traditional.
3134 Fascinating sponges.
3137 Crystal River Complex, archaeological site.
3139 Paranoia in neighborhoods instigated by police.
3139 Suspicious until proven innocent.
3140 New axle and bearing, not available; must use axle bought in Paraguay and >>>>>bearing bought in Chile.
3140 A profound course in marketing.
3142 Enslavement of workers, not by whip, by electronic surveillance.
3144 Factory of orange-juice concentrate.
3147 Sign inside a school-bus: no smoking.
3150 A society of faking.
3151 An unfriendly society as we have never met on this Expedition except in >>>>>New England.
3152 Kennedy Space Center.
3159 We met, for the fourth time, the globetrotter that we met for the first >>>>>time in Tierra de los Fuegos.
3160 An outstanding encyclopedical multimuseum of life (Florida State Museum).
3160 Science's fashions: yesterday's dogma, today's queerness.
3165 University; first thing, first: 20-page course on crime fighting at the >>>>>University, cum usual illiteracy et inconceptuality.
3165 Asians, about 2,5/oo of general population, yet between 17/oo and>35/oo of >>>>>universities' population.
3168 Okefenokee: where alligators enjoy soft drinks (judging by the cans).
3173 Ocmulgee, archaeological site.
3178 Decrepitude.
3179 Those thousands of hectares reduced from croplands to parking deserts.
3180 Houses guaranteed to last ... five years.
3180 Twenty-year-old + beer-in-unopened-can = criminal ... in a society rotten >>>>>with this, and other drugs.
3181 Daily vignettes.
3182 A fortune in harmful traffic signs.
3183 Hundreds of "private-club" churches, always closed; even for sale.
3187 At last, the first photographic laboratory since São Paulo to our taste.
3188 Vespuccian arrogant stranger-phobia at new summit:
we are persecuted even on private property of an acquaintance; and more.
3189 Possible psychoanalyses of that arrogant aggressivity.
3189 Temperate fruits are no less than tropical fruits.
3190 The scourge of hurricanes and tornadoes.
3190 A society where walking ten steps is too much effort.
3191 Along the China Sea.
3192 Exploiting and trampling dead people in their tombs.
3196 The art of advertising.
3197 Hypocritical double standards for deforestation.
3199 Memory of Southern Confederacy, an every-day presence.
3200 Cigarette factory.
3202 Food and medicine sold under same roof.
3202 Race attitudes.
3204 Furniture factory.
3207 "Keep out".
3208 Personal freedom:
mandatory use of seatbelts even though it is not of public interest.
3209 Many things reassessed.
3210 Painful, childish technolatry.
3211 Some people do show kindness.
3211 Novel: classical-music programs sponsored by private parties.
3211 How widespread, climatic and human aridity.
3212 Ku-Klux-Klan.
3214 WMS (White Magnificent Society) on its way to becoming
WMS (White Minority Society).
3215 Free speech does not include certain topics.
3215 Incaic-type tactics for ethnic mixing.
3215 Facets of slavery.
3217 Adventures in car-fixing ... and breaking.
3217 More fixing (without breaking, we hope) waiting for the right place.
3219 Carpeting factory.
3222 Adipose people as nowhere else.
3223 Lawn mowing, yes; flower planting, no.
3224 Radio stations financed by voluntary contribution, yet tunable by anyone.
3225 Granite quarry and work-plant; and stories.
3235 Milk pasteurization and sterilization.
3238 Largest low-relief on Earth.
3240 Self-determination got a beating.
3241 Thriving and floundering in legal anachronism.
3243 Plastic-jug factory.
3244 Factory of bricks.
3252 Howling preachers.
3257 Etowah, archaeological site.
3259 Trying hard to enlighten the public.
3259 Trying hard to avoid any pretext for lawsuit.
3260 The case of the Chiluc-quies known as Chiroquees:
no, good will did not help them.
3266 Old Stone Fort, archaeological site; and chalice of anxiety for De Soto.
3268 Huntsville Space Center.
3269---3281 Taking loving care of our vehicle.
3270 A campanile in the shape of ... a rocket; by Korean Protestants.
3271 Settling traffic irritation with handguns.
3271 An outstanding tribe.
3272 We heard it on radio: Catholics are not Christians.
3272 Many people express regrets about our persecution by strangerophobes, >>>>>publicized in interview.
3273 A gastronomic super-supermarket.
3276 The worst radio-interview possible.
3277 The most surprising country.
3282 Why so much fuss about illiteracy when inconceptuality is a worse evil - >>>>>and more widespread.
3283 Traffic lights warning of ... traffic lights.
3285 Beauty inside a wood: flora, fauna, and learning how to keep an open fire >>>>>alive for at least 14 days and nights non-stop with proper wood economy.
3287 Approved building materials not only burn like torches, they also produce >>>>>harmful fumes.
3287 Nuclear-radiation exposure to prevent death by inhalation.
3290 Yes, the English language can be navigated safely.
3290 Brazenness preying on stupidity.
3291 Every embezzled or otherwise illegal income must pay federal taxes ...
3292 An impossible game of percentages.
3298 Moundville, archaeological site.
3302 Cotton harvesting.
3303 Caveat visitor, caveat.
3306 An urgent cemetery.
3306 A few people are actually kind with us.
3306 Did Prince Madoc ab Owain Gwynnedd from Wales arrive in 1171 in Alabama, >>>>>carried by the same current that later carried Columbus?
3314 The war that wants to be rewritten.
3317 Shrimp processing.
3320 "Spanish Fort"; in fact a French/German carpentry shop ...
3323 Mississippi Delta and the shy river.
3325 A road with no land in sight.
3329 A city of lies and promises (New Orleans).
3336 Destroying families's honor and happiness on television, for profit.
3338 Vicksburg, more than a battleground.
3340 Largest hydraulic experimental station on Earth.
3340 What is quicksand.
3345 Plastic-tableware factory.
3347 Society with obligatory grafting of its lowest social level onto all >>>>>higher levels.
3351 A museum of meanders.
3352 Twelve flags over this land since the arrival of the Europeans.
3359 Johnson Space Center.
3369 Zero gravity is humbug.
3377 Seeing the birth of our Universe (almost).
3382 A kaleidoscope of buildings (Houston).
3383 Theatre in the round.
3383 Sport parlor.
3386 Lugubrious ecumenism.
3388 Thousands of geese and ganders.
3390 (3406) Are these 3 pre-primitive attempts at sculpture really 20/50,000 >>>>>years old?
3393 The drama of four diagnoses for one symptom (mechanical).
3393 Factory of decorative candles.
3398 More anonymous Vespuccian harassment.
3398 Some news-people, a public menace.
3400 FM radio from Guatemala tuned in Texas.
3401 Manufacturing of decorative candles.
3404 The one-two San Antonio punch.
3405 Fascination with money.
3411 Adapting sea fishes to fresh water.
3413 Another consulate, a public menace.
3414 The worst mechanic's shop ever so far in this Expedition.
3415 Accidental pollutions (on top of the endemic pollution).
3416 Report: tap water has any of 2,000 chemical pollutants, all harmful, >>>>>200 carcinogenic; even some bottled water is not totally pure.
3417 Superlative ranch.
3421 Two laundromats tell a lot about two societies.