Well I am back at work, a recovering traveler having just returned from Phoenix Arizona where I was lucky enough to score 4 weeks of company training, and although I was San Francisco for a week in July, this past month made feel like it was my first real foray into middle America.
The weather there was excellent and strikingly similar to Kalgoorlie, where I come from in Australia. Most of the days were full of oceans of blue sky and the warm dry evenings made for some great coffee shop stops. I met some nice people and made some new friends, performing has always been a good way for me to meet new people. I went to the north Rim of the grand canyon and it is beyond doubt worth the effort. I spent a weekend at Salome a small town 100 miles west of Phoenix with a bunch of old timey fiddlers it was great, I played a lot of banjo that weekend.
My take home view of America is that it is full of ordinary people living their lives much like everybody else, as such they are too busy meeting family and work obligations they are worried about how climate change will effect them , feeling powerless to make change that will effect a change in their outcome..