Good country, exhausting tourist industry

United States is a genuinely beautiful and interesting place. Grand Canyon is worth every superlative thrown at it. The New York pizza is legitimately excellent. world-class national parks gave the trip real depth.

What I struggled with: the tourist infrastructure around the headline sites in New Orleans is relentlessly commercial and expensive healthcare if you get sick is a genuine friction point. You can feel the gap between authentic United States and the packaged version sold to tourists. The authentic version wins, but you have to work to find it.