From the Atlantic to the Pacific

The distance between New York and Hawaii is just about the same as the distance between London and Beijing. No traveler crosses the United States from east to west without being astonished by its size.  The airplane speens on, hour after hour, over rolling farmland, huge cities,. empty deserts, high mountains, and wide, fast-flowing rivers.


                       
This is a country without a climate. It has every possible climate. It can snow in New York, be foggy in San Francisco, rain in Atlanta, and be sunny and hot in Phoenix all on the same day. It is a country without one kind of agriculture. It has every kind of agriculture. Anything grows in the hot, wet South. Very little seems to grow in som parts of the cold, windy North.

But America does have one special "way to life". It must have one, because Americans are always talking about it. Perhaps the people you will meet from different parts of the country will tell you what it is...