A final, simple thought on the USA.

There is one characteristic about the USA which really impressed itself upon me on this trip.

We travelled through an incredible variety of landscapes, industrial, rural, old- school and high tech, through a myriad national backgrounds embodied in its populous - and all this within arguably the most conservative of their regions.

Some of these communities are so far apart geographically that they may as well be in a different country. And geography and climate shape people as surely as the Colorado river shaped the Grand Canyon.

And yet despite all the obvious differences and problems (and they are legion) 'they' still remain -

--- a United States of America.

And that seems almost inexplicable, and admirable, to me.

And with this post I have chosen the below photo. It is of a bunch of neighbours on the road to LA who decided to have a chilli cook-off. They had originally envisaged a big organised affair in the park, but in the end opted to set up at the side of the road outside their homes and call out to passers-by, inviting them to be the judge of their efforts.

(I voted for number two, the vegan chilli). I hope they let me know who won.......

 

 

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