Well, I'll be driving from Toronto to Florida next week and will guage first hand if the US is feeling the pain of inflation, recession, home price implosion, terrorist war fatigue, lame duck president syndrome and on and on.
The fundamentals all around seem to have lost their footing. I've been to the US three times in the last year; Chicago, New York and my last drive to Florida. The country overall felt just fine, New Yorkers during the Xmas break seemed overally warm and upbeat. Was this all a brave face.
As the US goes, eventually so goes Canada. We did stay out of Iraq, but we have a lot of oil stuck in that tarsand muck up north, so no need to go there.
I am looking for to this Road Trip and will keep you posted on what I discover.
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