A New York Surface Excursion

Concrete guardians of knowledge, ancient emerging giants of railed travel - these are the sights revealed by traveling above ground rather than through the labyrinth of tubes beneath the life of the city. To see the metropolitan organism glowing after the setting of the solar luminary from atop the Empire State Sentinel will cost you more than your time - try more than $20 per head (good thing they don't charge by height).

Prague was beautiful. There was dancing in the cathedrals, and there were people drinking water from the fountains. You might never know it or believe (I before E, accept after C and all that other stuff) it, but the sky looks the same in Europe as it does in the United States, and I think that the people have the same desires...