Amazing journey
I'm just a lurker here, but had to log in to say:
Thank you DanielW for an amazing trip report. Always interesting to read your reports and see pictures of normal life in countries that I would never be brave enough to go to myself (even where there is no war or dictatorships!)
Look forward to a book(s) some day. They would certainly beat my favorite travel writer Bill Bryson into a very distant second place.