They started saying, 'We can take you there right now. You can stay as long you like. You can cook for us. The jokes about kidnapping and a million dollars cut a little too close. That was fairly scary.
People are much scarier than mountains or rivers.
I used to take miles and miles and hundreds and hundreds of pages of notes, and I still do. But now, about three-quarters of the way through the thing, I can see the structure of the story in my mind. Here's a rundown. That's what happened with his visit to the Karowai tribe in Indonesia. The original idea was to visit an area in the same region, high in the mountains.