[Strangler Lewis]

Back ourselves from a week in Philadelphia (first prize) with a day's side trip to New York. I learned that that sumbitch Morimoto sure can cook. And stuff about history.

In New York, I also learned that a gigantic construction site is not a contemplative place. We did get to see the water flowing in one of the memorial footprints as we were being diverted by security half way through Brooklyn and back. If the purpose of the rebuilding is to get New Yorkers to hate what happened on 9/11, it is surely doing the trick.