Untraveller

Members of the PNG met service, who were all extremely nice, picked us up from the hotel and drove us to the met office each morning. The drive was only a few minutes, but it was long enough to see a level of destitution I have not seen before. I know it’s trite to say that travelling gives you a great deal of perspective in how your own live compares, but to see it with one’s own eyes is a level beyond the descriptions you hear from others.

Papua New Guinea

This was the trip that I almost started a journal. I say almost because I wrote one entry, and I never wrote anything else. I wish I kept at it though, otherwise I wouldn’t have to rely on my memory to document these trips, almost 10 years later. I do remember what the entry was about. I’ll say more about this later. We left Melbourne for our first destination, Papua New Guinea, on a Thursday morning.