It has been exactly 10 years since my first post. 10 years since I accepted that job offer. The person who agonized about that decision a decade ago sounds a very different one from the one ruminating those memories now. But that 36 year old was a realist. And I should thank that younger woman for where I am today, for I think you do really go on as you start. That day, when she wrote that post, all she knew was that she intended to make it work. She had no idea where she was going and she had no idea how she meant to get there. Ten years into the marathon, and along the way the problems have changed, conditions have changed, priorities have changed. Health and wealth have changed, the joys and pleasures have changed, the cause for angst and tears have changed. But this 46 year old is certainly still at it. Making it work. Along the way, there were those who gave up and moved back to the predictable path of the west. The many who survived are as diverse as the country they came into. S...