Traveling to Papua and New Guinea in 1964 was an adventure! I knew something about it from stories I heard or read about World War II battles there. This was only 19 years after the end of the war and memories of it loomed large in the region. Each of the DC-3 aircraft we flew from Port Moresby to Goroka and Lae had its own war story to tell. Our first stop was Goroka in the Eastern Highlands. We stayed at the Hotel New Guinea, a set of Bungalows in a clearing. The indigenous staff were all properly dressed in the British colonial fashion, something like Simla in India. A holdover from the pre-war days, I suppose. Papua New Guinea was an Australian administered territory and would not gain independence until 1975. We saw a folkloric
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