Today is the third consecutive day of “walker, the path is made”. There are 530 kilometers to travel between Jamestown, in North Dakota, to Minneapolis, in Minnesota, in our already long Coast to coast trip through the United States and Canada.
Cross the Midwest Canadian South and North American is a tour where the incentive is just that: take the tour. As in many circumstances, there are moments where you are more alone than others, where the road is still alive, where you flow towards yourself.
It's like hard stages of Santiago's road, only by car; Your muscles get less tired from not walking but your mind is fuming.
We went through the rain Fargo, a city that became famous for being the title of a Coen brothers film which I quite liked at the time.
We arrived at the hotel, ate at a nearby restaurant. Dennis, and we stayed in the room all afternoon resting… and resting… and resting.
We take the opportunity to see, thanks to the Internet, the movie Fargo, from 1996 directed, written and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen, which won two Oscars. As a curiosity, none of the scenes, exterior or interior, were filmed in the city that gives it its name, Fargo.
As a reflection of the day, we would like to point out that we have always considered that the visit and get to know the shopping centers, the so-called “malls”, walk through the commercial areas of the towns visited, and visit the supermarkets that are always part of the local culture.
The supermarkets they emit the typical customer loyalty cards, which can be taken immediately: they only need a name and that's it.
I got my loyalty card in a Safeway Well, they are very useful, since in many articles there is a price for the customer with a card, and another, much more expensive, for the customer without a card.
A negative characteristic from my opinion is that in many establishments, supermarkets or gas stations the marked prices are without taxation.
You get the surprise when they add around 10 percent to the indicated prices (although this percentage is variable) for local taxes, sales taxes, state taxes, etc...
In a country where everything is (or pretends to be) easy, simple, direct, we do not quite understand why a Coca Cola that, for example, is advertised at $0,99 as a great offer, then costs $1,11 at the checkout. .
Another negative peculiarity is that not in all places that may seem obvious to us They sell alcohol and beers.
In more than one large supermarket there is nothing, no alcohol or similar. We have never known if it was due to local legislation, the State in question or the owners of the establishment themselves.
I imagine that there is the individual freedom of the businessman sell alcohol or not, but this puritanism, in general, seems strange to us and even more so in the United States.
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