On the road...

Still on the road...

Several impressions, though:

1) If you are going to have immigration, you have to have the Melting Pot, the great assimilation. Nothing else works. Walking today in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, it struck me that there really is no substitute, and any country which believes that it can import workers and not make tremendous efforts to assimilate them, integrating them into the culture and embracing their identities, adding them to the national culture, is fundamentally wrong and their policies will fail miserably.

2) The lowliest supermarkets in the US put the vast majority of supermarkets elsewhere in the world to shame: there is simply no comparison. Infrastructure is everything.

3) Prices, at least in New York, are significantly higher than they were 5 years ago.

So, back to vacation...