I realize it has now been several months since I returned from my trip; getting myself to get material together for this has proved harder than I originally thought (and I didn't imagine it would be easy).  As it turns out, brevity is not among my virtues, so transcribing journal entries written during the trip produced manuscripts longer than several term papers from college.  I'm working--not terribly successfully--on cutting down their length to something that at least I can read through in one sitting.  While I try to get better at that, I will also try to share.  Please forgive the extraordinary length.