So I went to New York, then Portland.

New York was great! I want to go back, but I’ll probably upgrade to a better room next time. I stayed in a closet in Chinatown that was filthy and crawling with cockroaches. No bathroom in the room and it still cost 65$ a night.

The highlight was walking over the Brooklyn bridge as the sun was coming up. This was a week before the storm and the weather was beautiful!!! New York as a city is great! One of the few places in the states I would be excited to live!

Oregon was OK. I saw a kid on a unicycle who was riding whilst checking his cell phone. That was cool!

One thing that kind of disturbed me was hearing the way some americans were talking about muslims. I’m no fan of religion, but to a lot of americans it seemed OK to treat the muslims as an “other”. Not human, not relevant, not like “us”.
I kept thinking of Hitler’s Germany speaking of the Jews, Roma etc. (I’m not throwing that around bombastically …I mean that literally).
Unfortunately, It also reminded me of some of the anti-immigrant/apartheid/segregation screeds in the states that are along the same lines…I am embarrassed by most of the stuff I heard…Lessons not learned and lessons forgotten.

…and on the US election I say small minded people breed small minded politics…
I’m disappointed the minor parties didn’t get more votes.
Proportional representation anyone???