… I go back to the top of the slide.

So, we sold or gave away half our stuff, loaded the rest in a 16 ft truck towing my car, and headed from CT to SF a few days ago, with the escrow for the sale of our home supposed to close tomorrow.

Imagine our surprise when we heard earlier today the buyer’s bank appeared to be balking. Yikes. Much gnashing of teeth. However, it now appears that the problem has been resolved and we should close escrow by Fri. or Mon.

Yes, Sue and I are both fried…

We are in Winnemucca NV tonight, home of many casinos and serious gold mining.

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“What is disturbing here is that things seem to get worse, not better,” an analyst at Goldman Sachs, David Greely, said. “These high prices are not attracting meaningful new supplies.”

That’s because there isn’t any extra supply waiting for higher prices in order to become profitable. Demand is way ahead of supply, and this is made much worse by massive speculation and manipulation in the futures markets. It’s a classic bubble.

And like any bubble, it will eventually pop. However, were $200 a barrel oil to become a reality, world markets would be in disarray and it’s a given there would be serious social unrest, if not actual riots.

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Live. 1990. From their seminal 1967 album of which Lou Reed famously said, our first album only sold 40,000 copies but everyone who bought it started a band.

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Yesterday was another long day of driving, through much of Nebraska (which 500 miles across) and stopped in Green River WY, a small mining town. Nebraska was quite flat, Wyoming started flat, but now the foothills of the Rockies are in sight, with mesas and spectacular scenery nearby.

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Canadian researchers at the University of Western Ontario have studied the evolution of food deserts in urban areas. Food deserts are areas where people have low or no access to food shops. In other words, they are neighborhoods with low average home incomes and poor access to healthy food. As said the lead researcher, Poor people with no car can be severely adversely affected by living in food deserts and are more likely to suffer from bad health and low quality of life with diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer.’ But what is the major cause of food desertification? Supermarkets, because they are built in new suburbs while smaller food shops are disappearing from city centers.

Plus, food prices in such urban food deserts are always much higher than in the prosperous suburbs, which makes things even worse for those living in them.

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