Return to NY
Our last day in London was spent shopping…spending the pounds we had left over from our trip. In the evening we met Ben and Caroline, the first people we stayed with, for dinner. The dinner was all right, but as with most places we ate in London, the service was poor.
Airport security was certainly beefed up..we ended up checking our main bags instead of bringing them as carryon, something I’ll probably have to do on the way to Austin as well. The flight was good, the food slightly better than on the way to London.. I read the first of the books I’d bought for myself, one of the Red Dwarf ones.
On the walk from the subway station to Theresa’s apartment we passed many American flags, and one shrine to one of the victims, presumably in front of where the person once lived. Yesterday we visited the shrine that Union Square has become.. There are antiwar sentiments (”love love love” and “give peace a chance”) written all over the statue of George Washington that dominates the square, as well as a couple of American flags hanging off of him. While we were there, one guy started talking about how they needed to clean that “anarchist graffiti” off the statue.. Posters for the missing really are all over Manhattan, sometimes covering store fronts or walls.. Today we may try to visit ground zero..
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