Cesta napříč USA

One of the many Bridges across the Mississippi River. This one connects Iowa with Wisconsin.

Look out! It's a 'gator! But this ceramic one in Mississippi is for sale - for your living room.

Guess who is celebrated in this famous Missouri museum?

A homeless woman sells a magazine similar to Nový Prostor.

Tourist stereotype: The French Quarter, New Orleans. Reality: It's a big, busy, modern city, too.

Barb, don't write on the furniture! Well, here you can. It's old junk furniture outside a blues club.

Two survivors of Hurricane Katrina: a house, a musician. A street tagger has made pictures like this on many of New Orleans' surviving houses.

Paddlewheel boats on the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee.

Guess where I met this little fellow - in the courtyard of my New Orleans hotel!

And here's the hotel's dance floor, filled with stuff from Mississippii grandmas' attics!

These old cotton plantation buildings are used today as touristy hotel rooms. Would you stay here? (No, there's no room service.)

Elvis lives! At least in stone.

The music and the entertainment - jazz, blues, rock, hip hop - never stop in Memphis!

This is what your bedroom would look like if your father were the rich overseer (boss) on a 19th-century Southern plantation.

The junction in Mississippi of highways 61 and 49, where legend says bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil.

This wisconsin sight is a good reason NOT to drive while using your mobile!

On the 4th of July Americans celebrate the country's strength and success. These folks want to remind people of another American ideal.

People in the northern states enjoy things the American Indian culture has to offer. This bench is a memorial to an Indian basket-maker, Emma Big Bear.

What's TGM doing behind glass in Iowa? He was carved out of wood by the Bily Brothers, Czech immigrants, in te early 1900s.

Americans like to show their creativity and individualism. Even with mailboxes!