Trancoso also started our discussions about what we had just done—the incredible people, natural wonder, diverse-of-all-diversity of seemingly vacant desert plains at 12,500 feet leading to active volcanoes, tremendous glaciers of unnatural colors of water emerging from escarpments towering higher than anyone should climb (even if some nut cases do), the Amazon—well, not enough can be said about it even as so much already has, the Pantanal, vast Patagonia, Iquazu Falls (7 times large than Niagara is what comes to mind), the primeval Galapagos to step back a few million years, cities, wilderness, people—new arrivals and residents for millennia…. And Machu Picchu—what can we say today about a people that was already “there” 500 years ago? Machu Picchu as mind-blowing as it is, was “merely” one of hundreds of their places for science, engineering, spiritual explorations, astrology, and royal gatherings. It just happens to be one of the places Europeans didn’t find to plunder. Getting lost, getting found. We have been explorers, not just travellers or tourists. Whew! We are humbled. We are already melancholy about leaving. It is good to have this time in Trancoso and Morro de Sao Paulo to reflect and gather ourselves. There is a lot of internal organizing and reorganizing to do.