So much to tell...So little time

"So tell me, after traveling the world for over a year, have you learned anything important?", I asked the New Zealander across the plank picnik table from me. We're sitting in a hostel in Fairbanks eating a breakfast we cooked on a community stove in a community kitchen.
"Yes. The news is crap. 99.5% of all the people I've met are friendly and want to help no matter where I am. Politics are screwing the world up, but people are helpful and caring all over the world."
Wow! Is that good to hear. Since I live on a diet of CNN and a picture of disaster and mayhem everywhere, this is such a refreshing thought. I remain incredulous but more hopeful.
We talk about South America and he tells us stories of the people and the hospitality he has been show throughout Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Chile. He says he didn't get into Columbia since the border was closed when he was there.
Outside I run ito another traveler that's riding his bicycle from the Artic Circle to Terra del Fuego (pls excuse spelling...). He reinforces the stories I've just heard. Great experiences in Mexico and further south in prior trips to that area.
We are seeing so much and there is so little time to write about it. But this was a must tell side of our trip.