I'm starting to feel like I've met you guys in "another life". I read the Drifters while I was drivng from Afghanistan (where I had read Caravans)back to Europe in my VW bus. Were they wonderful days to travel, or what?! I had heard stories of Formentara when you walked everywhere and there was no electricity. Many of my friends in the "East" would leave India in the summer to stay on Formentara.