South West USA

This was the first time I've been very disappointed with one of Justine Shapiro's "tours" in these "Globe-Trekker" DVDs. This was a disgrace. Shapiro normally is a lot more mature than what she demonstrated here. She came with an "attitude" and showed unbelievable poor taste, as did the people who put this together.

I watched this - as I presume most other people did - to see the magnificent Southwest scenery, particularly the Grand Canyon, not have most it ignored in favor of showing us scene after scene of whacked out New Agers, psychics, aged hippies from the '60s, alien space worshipers, on and on - all of which seemed to turn on our young host.

Shapiro - I am not exaggerating - showed exactly 5-7 seconds of the Grand Canyon from her helicopter ride. That was it! The most magnificent, famous sight probably in all of the U.S. and that's what we got. Meanwhile, we were "treated" to minutes and minutes of a "channeling" session, UFO discussions, naked men with their penises hanging out dancing around a bonfire, etc.

In addition, the first 20 minutes of this 50-minute show, Shapiro did nothing but complain about everything. She didn't like a hotel, her car ride, she complained about certain things in the Amtrak ride, she totally trashed the city of Sante Fe.....she didn't like anything.

She didn't disguise her attitude or ignorance, right from the opening sentence of the show. She said, "I really was never interesting in coming here. I thought the only scenery worthwhile was outside the country." Oh, really! Never thought the Grand Canyon was anything worth seeing or the U.S had nothing to offer? I guess that sort gives you an idea how bad this episode was, and the producers ought to be ashamed putting out a "travel" disc like this. Since a British company makes these, maybe this is another form of USA-bashing.

All this turned out to be was a San Francisco wacko with a real elitist attitude showing us what interested her, not the audience.