Hey thanks for the post, I have not had a chance to read it all yet , but I loved it from the start. I know exactly what you mean about jealous people trying to scupper your plans and put you off going because they can not. I have the same reaction to a lot of my plans, even though they have been on a much smaller scale. So much so that I have generally given up talking about making long travel trips or hiking trips. When I cleared of to the USA for three moths a while back I thought people would be excited for me, they were not, they were just negative. Similarly when I was on Amtrak heading to the Grand canyon for a hiking camping trip, a guy on the train started telling me a story of a guy who was camping in the canyon and someone above was taking shots at him with a rifle, Thanks for that
