Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.” (с) Henry Ford

Taken today in Los Angeles

In America, there’s some issue with tea. There are places where it’s not even on the menu. For example, right now at Tropicana Bakery & Cafe, there’s no tea; there was a similar instance before somewhere else. But where tea is available, it’s always in tea bags. You can’t find green tea in cafes at all, and tea is never served in teapots – only by the cup.

The coffee at Starbucks, by the way, is different from the one in Russia. The sugar in packets resembles powdered sugar and is less sweet.

Plain bread is not served anywhere. Instead of bread, they always give toast. Toasted and sometimes with butter.

Water is served for free. Usually, if not specified, it comes with ice and lemon.

The coffee is often so-so as well. It’s made better in Europe.

I was surprised by the poor connectivity in California. In the cities, mobile service and internet are somewhat okay, but once you leave the city, T-Mobile vanishes and if the internet appears at all, it’s just Edge. The fact that there’s no connection at all in national parks doesn’t surprise me anymore. I wonder why that is. It seems that it’s very important for safety. You can’t even call 911.

After pirating two PDFs of Dan Ariely’s previous books, I decided to buy the third one for dollars. It’ll give me something to do on the plane.

Neighborhood

Just like in my childhood)

Garlic Ice Cream

For 26 weeks, retail gasoline prices have been falling along with oil prices. In the USA.

At the motel breakfast, they serve packaged boiled peeled eggs.

In American hotels, the Douche almost always looks like this. Features: the pressure is not adjustable, the water temperature is controlled by turning this thing counterclockwise.