Walter,
thankyou for another riveting instalment. I was saying to someone recently that it's strange to be able to converse with somebody who was actually there.
My generation have read the books, and we've watched the films, somehow it's more real in this format. Sometimes it's hard to comprehend that the experiences on this thread aren't 3rd hand or 2nd hand, you were actually there.
Sometimes you've done things we can only dream about, and sometimes you've done things that we only dream about in nightmares. Once again I take my hat off to all who post on this thread.