The decision, of course, in many ways was not rational at all. It was simply giving in to a youthful dream and of course it was an… to be out on an expedition and all that, even though it was dangerous and there still was a considerable percentage of those people going on expeditions that lost their lives either from tropical diseases or from other accidents or from native attacks, so it was a dangerous thing too. But at the same time, it… I think it… it added, certainly in my case, an immense amount to my education, to the development of my character, to the development of all sorts of insights into both human nature and the workings of our society that I wouldn't have had if… I had not gone on these expeditions. Now the… reaction of my family: my father died when… had died long before, and my mother was a very capable woman. She raised us – I have two brothers – she raised us three boys from teenage through the universities. She lived on a… just on a widow’s pension and we worked our way through college and so she… she was a very practical person. And yet when this… my… when I… it was… on the way of making my decision and I talked with her, she simply asked me, she said, ‘Is it really something you want?’ And I said, ‘Yes’, and then she said, ‘Then go right ahead and go’.