Travel
“Cannibals, hunters, and home”
Jungle diary, part 4 starts,
“So, tell me, do you really eat humans?” I ask Jacob, a Korowai tribesman whose family – the Dayos – we stay with on one of our last nights in the Papuan jungle.
Isak translates from English to Bahasa, and Lakor translates from Bahasa into Korowai. “I have eaten three,” comes the [...]
The art of sleeping in a treehouse
Part 3 of Danna Harmon’s Jungle Diary is up at the Christian Science Monitor web site. To catch folks up, Ms. Harmon has been trekking the Papuan jungles searching for a remote tribe that may still practice cannibalism. Prat one and part two links are at the beginning of the article.
My interest? I spent 21 [...]
Who knew there were so many kinds of mosquito?
The Christian Science Monitor has Jungle diary, Part 2 up on their website.
I could identify. For example,
The jungle is beautiful – filled with mangroves, sago palms, breadfruit trees, and thousands of different species of orchids. The thick insect life, upon which I mostly will harp from here on out, is astonishing. Papua is home to [...]
In search of Papua’s cannibals
From the first part of a 4 part article,
The sparsely populated island of New Guinea, the second-largest island in the world after Greenland, is divided between two countries: the independent nation of Papua New Guinea in the east, and the Indonesian Papua in the west – formally known as Irian Jaya. More than 75 percent [...]
Forgotten by time
Cynthia Dennis in a special to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote about the country I lived in for 21 years, Papua New Guinea in the Travel section of last Sunday’s paper.
It was a mostly accurate account, at least I found no major errors. I’ll have to post a linked edition sometime.
The only flaw was that [...]
Four dollar gas
Remember when we thought $3 gas was expensive?
We haven’t had to buy any $4 gas yet although we may have to before the end of the summer.
Travel Day 4 Columbia to Nashville
Amber waves of grain.
Confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi rivers at Cairo, IL.
White Haven, an historic site in Paducah and rest area. And for Huckleberry at Spring City Chronicle, a ghost story, although not the one we were told about by a visitor to the rest stop, who says a man is seen sometimes [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Summer Travel – Days 2 and 3
Early in our marriage, we attended First Baptist Church in Climax Springs, MO. Our friend from that time had shared with us previously that the church was celebrating their 150th anniversary on June 1st. So we made plans to attend.
On the road to Climax Springs, we observed an odd sign,
This is not a misprint. You [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Summer Travel – Day One
Our first leg took us from Waukesha to Columbia, MO.
Alternate energy could be seen along the way.
Shell station and the price for their E-85. Not bad, but I didn’t get any E-85.
Mendota Windmill farm at Paw Paw, IL (Other pictures at the link)
Illinois Soybean Association “Burma Shave” like signs. No pictures, can you believe that?
And [...]
