Chiang Mai trek reflections

I wish my Chiang Mai trek had been 20 days long...I keep vascilating between the opinion that A) my level of consciousness/happiness is completely my own choice and results from the attitude I choose to bring to my environment and the level of acceptance I have of what is truely going on around me (as opposed to how I label it through my perceptions and filters), and B) it really does make a difference what energies are present in my environment because that affects my own physical and spiritual energies. Perhaps when one gets better at being present in conducive environments, it gets easier to stay present regardless of the energies going on around you? This is something I continue to process and a theme that keeps coming up in my travel conversations. Tomorrow or the next day, I hope to head to the boat docks and see if I can negotiate a trip down river stopping at some of the smaller villages to meet locals and maybe learn how to weave? I am ready to get out of the cities...they truely are pretty much the same everywhere.