Thanks for sharing your adventure with us all, it is greatly appreciated here.

The relevance of your last questions are extremely pertinent and underline the seriousness of the situation we are stating to be aware of relating to global warming. I have personally taken upon myself to travel less and use my vehicle the least I can.

Meanwhile, having realized that rush anywhere doesn't help anyone on the long-run, I have decided to slow down and rush as slowly as possible for matters of sustainability including health and resources preservation.

Equally important, is the value given and shared of what it is to be human: On one level, the product of millennia of evolution for the natural world in which we are all living and depend on. It has been proven over and over again that any person spending valuable time in nature will transmit the value of nature to their children and relations. Even more so, any child spending quality time outside as they grow up will in the greatest of odds possible become a protector of this environmental space in which they have grown into.

As you pause so well in the end, it is important for the ones having the incommensurable opportunities experienced in nature to share with the ones who can't and, maybe even more importantly, with the ones who don't see the value in it and want to use it for short-sighted egotistical purposes.

Thanks again for a quality posting, all for one and one for all! Namaste :)