This is now Day 47 of our global journey.  By the time this article gets posted, we will have disembarked from the Queen Mary II and I should be sending this blog out from the Marriott Marquis, located at Times Square.  So this a good time to reflect on our trip so far and my life in general. I've here and there been complaining about our trip.  As for example, the  walk from the Southampton bus station to the Moxy Hotel .  As challenging as that was, no comparison with what is happening in the Gaza Strip and Ukraine.  Nor how people in general are doing in Africa, India, Middle East and poverty/dislocation sites the world over.  38 million Americans can be added to this group. Regarding the USA, during these past few weeks I've asked around what people thought about how the country is doing, of Donald Trump and so forth.  Views have been mixed.  I've also noticed that in the countries we've visited, the roads are better, airports significantly more organized and newer,