Dedication? Are you kidding me! Reading through my ( wordy ) posts is dedication, although I like to think that they are entertaining ;<)

This write up of yours was full of pictures, that helps too.

I have been living in rural Portugal for over 3 years now. I walk half an hour to the nearest village with a couple of hundred inhabitants. The closest town is a 20 minute car ride away and I am talking about a town with a couple of thousand people. The closest serious city ( over 100k people ) is about 50 miles/ a little over an hour away.