Americans have long had a reputation for being very good at boasting about themselves.

I scratched my head with lightning and purm myself to sleep with thunder.

Whether it's from a Mark Twain character, sports star, or politician.

Writer Richard Grant tells us what kind of American exceptionalism he enjoys best.

That's the tradition of bragging that I admire is the funny entertaining clever bragging.

Tour guiding friends from Madrid explain what they like most about living in the Spanish capital.

Each little neighborhood in Madrid is like its own village.

And Robert McFarley recommends exploring the

Underland to provide a deeper perspective for our place in the world.

We all try it, don't we?

You stand on the Grand Canyon, rim, and you dream back in geological time, and it's dizzying.

He suggests that a deep time journey can help us make the most out of the here and now.

It's all in the hour ahead on

travel with Rick Steves. Come along.

As a self-described Isaholic Robert McFarnan loves what glaciers can reveal to us over time,

as well as the surprises the Earth hides beneath our feet,

he explains how a deep time journey can help us better appreciate the here and now a little later in the hour.

And tour guides from Spain, including an American expat, tell us why they love living in Madrid.

Let's start today's travel with Rick Steve's with Arthur Richard Grant. He's lived in Manhattan, the Mississippi

Delta, and the Sanorn Desert of Tucson to immerse himself in different aspects of the USA.

In contrast to the English modesty Richard was brought up on, he finds the

crowing of American rappers, blues legends, rodeo cowboys, and frontiersmen can be

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