I  was a visitor in a new land.  This land that I was in was actually quite old.  It was tropical  and there was no materialism at least not in the way that we normally experience. There was no television, no expensive items, no cars, no planes, just the people and the land and the a struggle to survive in a way that I was not used to. I can still see the trees and the edge of the land that was being met by water that was vast and choppy and seemed impossible to cross.  I found it quite interesting, the vast difference between it and our world.  I…