More Toto:

 Note: The point of the last article I wasn't able to reach because the software from the Tuomotus from Wikipedia wouldn't allow me to continue so I'm continuing here:

The point is we all reach the limits of our "Comfort Zone". For example, when I went to India and Nepal I found myself (sort of on a completely different planet) in 1985 with my family. Often, I felt unable to protect my family from things I didn't completely understand or didn't understand at all being from such a different culture than there that it was definitely like I had landed with my family at that time on another planet.

But, I find often in traveling here in the U.S. or Canada that I find the limits of my comfort zone. And strangely enough I reach one of those limits yesterday when I saw a red canoe filled with people with a Canadian Flag rising above the Canoe. 

We all have times when we least expect it that we find ourselves in "culture shock". I had another experience like this in Cody, Wyoming simply because I had never been there before or driven that far away from California before in my motor home.

So, we never know when we realize suddenly that we are out of our comfort zone and talking these mental and emotional states over with a friend or a spouse or a relative (even if it's on the phone) is sometimes helpful at these moments.

For example, when traveling often you don't have a refrigerator with all the food you might want to eat all the time traveling. So, one of the things that can happen is you eat a lot less because you don't have your refrigerator there filled with all the goodies you like to eat.

So, yesterday I wasn't eating enough and found myself moving into a sort of "panic attack" and so I talked with my wife and she and I realized I wasn't eating enough for my body to feel comfortable traveling so much. After all, we now have been traveling by car since June 4th and are now up in Alberta, Canada.

So, as you travel be kind to yourself so you don't have panic attacks from not enough food at the right times or from any other things you are dealing with. Some people like to move in motor homes or trailers because it is more like being at home than comping or staying in hotels or friends homes along the way.

We all have our ways of coping with: "Toto: I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."

(Which is a line from the "Wizard of Oz(1939) with Judy Garland who says this line.