Further thought on trip

ADDENDUM
So I wrote earlier
about how I thought if the last three weeks of the trip had been different
--if I'd gone to the spa to cleanse and then came back to the States and started running,
instead of wasting the time in Chiang Mai and Kawagoe--
well things would have been alright.
Of course, I realize it's a bit like saying
that if the pipe would have been properly cut on the last effort to stop the oil spill,
they could have captured 50 percent instead of 25 percent of the oil.
It would make so little difference in the scheme of things
that it is not worth getting worked up over.
The fact is that in both cases,
we are still dealing with a disaster.