Ten countries and Sixteen US States

All American, but one more American than the others.

I just worked out that I visited sixteen states  of the USA, (plus DC), in the 4 months I was there.  I'm missing it a little, but not sure why yet.  England is warm, yet wet, seems less vibrant, less like a land of opportunity.

The trip included ten countries in total.  I visited each one from Canada down to Panama.  It's often said that people all round the world are the same.  I can report that that's nonsense.  They're different as can be, and it's mainly down to education and/or belief systems.

USA: I didn't manage to understand the mindset of the American people.  America is obsessed with race to an unhealthy and insane level.  There's racism coming from all sides, and it's a politically troubling place, so much more divided than ever before.  It's common to come across anti-white rhetoric on the internet these days, and I experienced it in New York.  And there's a huge proportion of white america who hate Obama for no reason whatsoever.  They would deny that it's because he's viewed as being black (he's neither black nor white but both!), but it's pretty obvious the republicans hate him a lot more than they would a white democratic president, because their arguments against him or so flimsy.  They choose to believe ridiculous things, even when they are easily verifiable as false with a little research.  In that regard they are similar to conspiracy theorists.  Very few of these people have any real education.

It's often said that the UK is ten or twenty years behind the US in regard to many things.  Perhaps this was more accurate before the technological revolution and the advancement of the internet.   Let's just hope it's not going to follow the contemporary political route.  It's plain that Bernie Saunders is the correct choice, but America can't see straight.  Their view is largely obscured by a largely culture-less and inconsistent world obsessed with itself, eclipsing all others.

As of the morning of May the 10th, I'm back in the UK.  So, it's the latest chapter.  Always going to be a comedown after seeing so many amazing sights.   As usual, nothing's changed, and people haven't moved on much.  Especially those that really should have.

But there are still things I want to do here - and in Europe.  Despite all the troubles, if I could move to the US, I would.  Or maybe Canada.  Not a single country in Central America inspired me to return, but never say never.  The reason being: space.  The outdoors. The language.  And despite all the insanity, the majority of people I met were laid back, (not uptight like the British), welcoming and generous.  I met more amiable people in four months in the US than I have done in years in the UK.  There are so many walls, so many closed doors and minds here.  I guess it's up to me to over-ride that now.