Special isnt it? Milne Bay......glad you got to experience it, worth the effort isnt it?. Love flying out of Moresby, your naked boy trumps my lady feeding a piglet on the plane. Thanks for the memories :)
When is a fart not a fart? Hmmm, you seem to have stumbled upon an inadequacy in the English language. Clearly there should be more than one word for fart. As far as I can see there should be at least 4: A fart that smells and is audible, a fart that doesn't smell but is audible, a fart that smells, but is inaudible, and lastly a fart that doesn't smell and is inaudible, which, let's face it, isn't much of a fart at all.
Possibly we could search in the 961 Papua New Guinean languages for examples of these; there's a little research project for you!
So there we have it, all farts are equal, but some are more equal than others.
And for the purposes of this blog, we're referring to the first two, as in a fart used as a rather immature form of jocular communication between buddies.
I hope this finally clears up any lingering fart-based confusion!
Why can't you fart underwater??? All the rest I agree with...a very philosophical observation of the benefits of diving.
By the way, I have a cousin who has lived most of his life in the western part of New Guinea, mostly in the jungles. He even found a Jap Zero still in its packing case. Not sure if he got it out or told anyone where it was so they could get it out.
When a tree falls down in the woods, and there's nobody there to hear... Agreed, technically you can fart, but just like screaming in space, or the tree that falls down in the wood, no-one can hear it.
And no-one can smell it.
Which just makes it one more great thing about diving, I suppose!
What a great blog, several of Jared Diamond's books I have read give great accounts of tribal life in Papua New Guinea, and I have to say several of your accounts were equally entertaining. I absolutely love the story about the billum, but what really struck me are the magnificent photos, not just from this blog but many of your others,
you guys definitely give young travelers something to aspire to!
Fantastic great blog - totally enjoyed it!!! superb idea of reminding yourselves what was brilliant about those places:-)
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Why I can never keep a diary... Hmmm, yes, I try not to get more than a year behind but somehow time just slips away... 4 more blogs in the pipeline to look forward to, out sometime 2014 (hopefully)!
Very nice indeed! A Nice write-up that I enjoyed thoroughly! I hope to experience similar feelings when I go to Cape Verde next year. There are an uninhabited island there that I'm looking forward to visiting!
Pick your six hottest spots around the world and let us know... Wow...all in one dream day...but not a dream...one's own reality condensed. Wow. Great blog by the way...your teleport really works...transported me.
Thanks for the clarification... I will narrow it down to six spots...I will be sitting and describing my surroundings and how it makes me feel just as you have admirably done. Rather than reliving what I did previously at each spot, I will create a dream of how I would ideally spend my few hours. In that vein, I will likely drop two from my list, and add two: Bernese Oberland in Switzerland and Antibes on the French Riviera.
Thanks for posting your blog and giving us a chance to look back...kind of a reverse bucket list. It would be interesting to learn whether anyone posts places that were on their bucket list, but in hindsight may not have been that memorable after all.
great blog! This is one of the best blogs I have read lately. I really enjoy summary blogs and this is a very original way of writing one of them. Love it!
At first I was really concerned... but then I caught on. I'll have to think about this and blog about the six places next March on my fifth anniversary. But until then I can name six places: 1) Chiang Mai, Thailand; 2) Kenya safari (Masai Mara NP); 3) all over Italy (Rome, my favorite city, if I have to pick one place, but the Amalfi Coast, Tuscany, Venice and Lake Garda are way up there); 4) all over the UK (the Cotswolds if I have to pick one place, but Cornwall, Kent, the Lake District, and the west coast of Scotland are also way up there); Norway (the western fjords); and the Western USA (not sure how I would narrow this down as there is so many fantastic places from the Olympic Peninsula to the Four Corners area (Mesa Verde, Arches, Canyonlands, Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks, to the California and Oregon Pacific Coast, to the Rocky Mountains). So give me the rules...how broad a geographical area does a hot spot encompass? If the definition is narrow, I will just have to be very selective...which I can probably do between now and March!
THE RULES SAY... Thanks for posting your top spots... sounds like you might need more than just the one dayto fit all that in!
Sadly the rules are as per the blog... you can go anywhere you like and do anything you want, but you've only got one day and you must have been there before, and you've got up to 5 teleports to help you tour the globe. There's nothing to stop you spending part of your day driving around from one place to the next if that's what you fancy (San Francisco to LA down the Big Sur, for example), Hell, you could even fly somewhere if you wanted, though I'm not sure part of my dream day would include queuing at an airport... So, in theory, you could go more than 6 places if you can fit it into one day, I suppose, or you could just go to one place all day if that's what you fancy too! Up to you... I look forward to reading about it come March time!
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Special isnt it?
Milne Bay......glad you got to experience it, worth the effort isnt it?. Love flying out of Moresby, your naked boy trumps my lady feeding a piglet on the plane. Thanks for the memories :)