Finally returning here. Where are we? Well, great Stanford has accepted my application. We are progressing. Remains now to get my boss to sign up on the bill and get the company to pay. In the same time, book the ticket. Stops to foresee:

1. Québec, visit Siham my niece's wife who is preparing a PhD and who has got married last year. her husband has emigrated from France to Canada last August.
2. Montréal, visit my friend Vince, a European executive at RioTinto, expatriated in Canada for the last 5 years. Not yet contacted. Will he be there? Ask Vince how much the Internet has/is changed(ing) the way a mammoth corp. like Rio Tinto is operating.
   
3. Houston. My friend Marc, a Shell executive, expatriated in Houston for 2, 3 years. Study the oil business cluster in Houston, Texas.
4. Chicago, visit Houda a young Swisses who has moved to the US 2, 3 years ago to join her husband, a medical doctor.
5. New York which I plan to visit with my friend François, ex-colleague, French and a GE exec. in the US for the last 10 years. François being married with an American is by now half American.