What a superb trip report.
I have followed your reports for a number of years, enjoying your style of writing and imagining you as a wanderign spirit -- that may be completely untrue but it is the image that I have in my mind from many of your reports. I especially love when you recount some of your stories from jetting around the US in the 70s and 80s, my how it was so much more glamorous in those days !!
Greetings an dbest wishes from 51 degrees north in the UK