For some reason, I can't get ArcGIS to work on Chrome, so I can't comment inline like I'd want to -- so I'll just put my comments here.

You Five Keiths system cracked me up. The photos are so good! Alison and Yuanziyi's comments about the non-100 scale percentages make sense -- but I didn't think about/notice it because I'm so bad at math. To attempt to quantify your experience along every stop is (by necessity) very complicated... It's certainly a great idea, if only a starting point.

The tool is absolutely perfect for your project. You've fitted it to your purpose nicely. One question I've had, though, in going on this "virtual journey" with you, is what your own motivations were for undertaking the pilgrimage. It's clear it was more often than not a grueling, frustrating experience -- so why did you do it? What kept you going? Maybe you mentioned this in your previous iteration, so forgive me if I missed that -- but given the personal emphasis you've adopted with the second iteration (and which is working quite well), I can't help but wonder at this exclusion.

I agree with Keith about the actual "map" portion of your StoryMap -- I think this is the most essential and innovative component you have here. Do you think there's a way to develop this and make it more central to the project/overall ArcGIS presentation?

Wow -- as a cultural studies person, the existence of documents like these is blowing my mind! I do wonder about the decision process/biases which factor into the individual gazeteers' choices of what to include/exclude. Maybe this is beyond the scope of what you're doing here... But still really interesting to think on.

Similar to Alison's question about low circulation rates, what exactly do you mean by adjustment of location? Do you mean of the villages (either their physical boundaries or the populations themselves) or the records themselves? This is nitpicking -- but as someone who knows absolutely nothing about your topic, it's interesting to me!

I totally understand your response here -- it's something I'm struggling with too. I know you were probably mostly joking here, but I want to be clear that this change in emphasis does not make you sound self-involved, up your own ass, etc. It's a great shift that is leading you to a more fruitful and compelling project. Pilgrimages (particularly this one, from the sounds of it) are -- by definition -- deeply personal, physical, embodied experiences. Exploring the facets of this as you experienced them is brilliant.

Tell me about it... Same here.

Great rhetorical distinction, honestly. I'm not being sarcastic!

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Dang. This is such a great question. Well done on reinterpreting this to fit the goals of your project -- I'm particularly interested in the inclusion of"soul" here. I think defining how exactly you're understanding "the soul"/spiritual experience is going to be the trickiest part, but also what's most integral to your project.