I would have long since stopped lugging jammies around. We are eating Weet-Bix – but we are in Fiji. Interesting time to be in Fiji – they were having some sort of revolution, our hotel’s plan to ensure safety was to keep the lovo – sort of a Fijian imu – going and just feed any army that came through.
When Carlton posed by this statue of Captain Cook in Napier NZ – Carlton hadn’t discovered history yet. 10 years later he was all over Captain James Cook. Of course, Capt Cook was the real man behind Capt James Kirk of the Starship Enterprise. And it was Capt Cook who wrote “ambition leads me … farther than any other man has been before me”.
I seem to recall that I didn’t pay enough attention to the sign. It was a long walk.
Enough of 1987 – I’ll try to finish up the South Pacific trip tomorrow. Big accomplishment today was “checking” the taxes. The “guy” does the taxes. I “check” them. Last year, I found a mistake. This year was OK.
Now, how shall I get to Kona this year? All plane,