WAL*MART and Panda Express

Visiting tourist spots and eating at luxurious restaurants must be fun to most tourists. Of course they are also great fun to me.

But, sometimes I want to go to local supermarkets or franchised food shops where I buy food and drink to eat at hotel.

Do you know why?

One of the reasons is that I’m the only driver in my family while traveling. So, I can’t drink as much beer as I want when I eat at a restaurant in the States. On the other hand, I feel very relaxed drinking beer at a hotel.

Another reason is that it’s fun for me to find differences of size of food and prices comparing to those in Japanese supermarkets.

No need to say, everything is cheaper and bigger in the States than in Japan.

Who eats that big size ice cream, and how?

Melons are far far cheaper in the States than in Japan. I guess that one melon costs approximately one tenth!

I’m a fun of Panda Express fast food shop. They sell delicious foods at low prices with lovely free fortune cookies. The Fortune Cookie is a thin, crisp cookie baked around a piece of paper with words of wisdom.

Good Morning on the 5th Day in the States

We left Mokee Dugway heading for South Lake Powell. About 300km driving brought us to the hotel we planed to stay in Page, AZ in the evening. We went to Burger King next to the hotel and finished dinner. Then moved to a nearby gas station, filled up gas to our car, came back to the hotel and immediately fell in sound a sleep on the 4th day in the States.

We got up in the next morning rather late, and had light breakfast. Our 5th day in the States started with this colorful bowl of cereal with milk, coffee and apples.

I like a room facing the east for getting morning sunshine. Sunlight helped me to ease my jetlag.
Lake Powell is famous for many tourist attractions. But, because of our limited time, we skipped most of them and chose only two places, shopping at WAL-MART and visiting Horseshoe Bend.



A leisure boat at the bottom of Horseshoe Bend disappeared in few minutes while we were watching.
A picture of the whole view of Hoseshoe Bend follows.
Thank you, lizard for showing up.
We didn't go to Antelope Canyon. It's located near Page, just outside the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. I linked movie site of Antelope Canyon. The narration of the movie is spoken in Japanese, but it is worth viewing.