Patience is one thing you and I lack in common. We always have high expectations and cna’t wait to taste the experience. Most of the time we are often disappointed.
Your cautionary, optimistic view of Machu Piccu and the time it took to get there was obviously a blessing, since you were impressed with the final outcome.

Once again your writing skills amaze me. I guess all that money we paid to send you to O’Dowd and UC has paid its rewards. However, I took a professional writing course after starting my professional engineering career and the teacher commented the I was writing at a professor’s level. Too many thousand word paragraphs and too many 75 word sentences. The average reader (single digit IQ) has a difficult time processing megabite paragraphs. So even though the writing is still fantastic, slow it down a little for us senior citizes with single digit IQs.

Dad

Again I think