The USA is a strange place, on one hand there is the cultured cities like New York and San Francisco, even San Fracisco airport has some fine art exhibits in it, then there are places like Oklahoma which feel like a backwater and a cultural desert. Not that there won't be pockets in-between too - and I have been to lots, from Oregon to North Carolina - but living in a car culture, driving from one restaurant to a campus, to a tennis court, to a hotel it seems like the car has robbed the place of any idea of a cultural centre and I guess I miss that. And yesterday I drove on Route 66 but it was a big so what. Living in cities is like living in a village within a larger conurbation - London is very much like that, I lived around Dulwich for years. New York is like that, so too Chicago and San Francisco and parts of LA but Oklahoma feels like a drive from here to there, with sprawling roads and malls and the like lining the streets. I wonder how a wee chapel like Matisse's would have faired over here. But not to worry, I am here to see by baby girl and yesterday we listened to this on Route 66:
