Letter dated August 25th.
Sender: Anastasia Lebedeva, Dallas Airport, Texas
Recipient: Yulya Keda, Kazakhstan
Hola! I was so happy to receive your letter. It's great that you don't forget about us and write such detailed notes. Now, let me get to the news.
The month flew by unnoticed, and our journey has finally begun! I'm writing to you from the airport in Dallas, Texas. The plane just landed. We are waiting for Nora – we met her through Couchsurfing. After reading in your letter about the West Nile virus outbreak in Dallas, we looked up the terrifying statistics online – so many people infected by deadly mosquito bites. Everyone at work kept telling us: why are you going there? Don't! But the end justifies the means.
By the way, we received all the packages from Amazon, so expect some gifts!
I didn't think it would be so sad to leave Daytona Beach. I will miss not only my American friends but also the students from Russia and Moldova I worked with. On our last night before the flight, we gathered on the ocean shore, ordered pizza, and shared our impressions of the summer that flew by. I immediately remembered our hangouts and your delicious pizza!
I'll put the bittersweet feelings aside for now, because The Big Trip is ahead! Friends from Daytona just wrote that a hurricane has started there – we left just in time!
Answering your question about why we chose Texas as our first stop, I'll finally lift the veil of secrecy. In a couple of days, we are going to a concert............................................... of Linkin Park!
Chester, Mike and the gang, wait for us! And the killer mosquitoes won't stop us!
In the meantime, while Linkin Park is preparing for the show, I'll write about our grand plans. All our plane and bus tickets were bought a long time ago, so I think everything will be cool. After Dallas, we'll head to New Orleans, Louisiana, then to Flagstaff, Arizona – we have a tour of the eastern part of the Grand Canyon booked from there. The next stop is San Francisco, and finally, New York. We'll spend three days in each city, and we saved four for New York.
Don't be bored! See you soon!
