Welcome to our travel blog site, "Robert & Rosanna are Going Tribal: A South Pacific Cultural & Diving Adventure". After moving our youngest child off to college on the East coast, we are now official empty nesters. And what a great way to open up a new chapter by taking a 30 day exploration into the South Pacific and the fascinating and primitive culture of Papua New Guinea ! This type of travel blog has dual purpose for us. Rather than coming...

I departed Kimbe and Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea with no troubles, and made my transit over to Manila for my final stay of this adventure, on my way home. It was great to have the opportunity to meet up with some diving friends I met on my liveaboard trip in March of this year. On that dive trip, Alasdair, Dave, & Tim reluctantly welcomed me into their socials on the front of this ship each night, along with my cheap ass bottle of bourbon, for some bante...

I'm having a good time at the Walindi Plantation Resort, a diving facility in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. It's a quiet place here, not a great deal of socializing, but after 3 hours underwater and lots of sun each day for the last 3 days, everyone's pretty much ready to retire to their bungalows by 9 PM anyways. Tomorrow's my last day here in Kimbe, before heading back to Port Moresby for transfer. I completed my new video production, the second and the last o...

"Thousands of Smiles" As stated in the previous story, the words below and the pictures shown are going to be difficult to portray the full experience that I had today in Goroka. And before I go any further, many thanks to Ed for the amazing photos today. I'll back up just a little bit to day 1 at the Goroka Show. There were different attributes in each of the tribes, converging into this one centralized Goroka Show. And some were quite reserved or serious, but ...

It is Sunday, September 18th, at the conclusion of the Goroka "Sing Sing" Show in Goroka, Papua New Guinea. I'm sitting at the dinner table with my friend, Ed, and literally my mind is a spinning whirlwind with everything that has happened yesterday & today. Today was one of the best and most memorable days of my life -- absolutely tremendous. I don't know where to start, and have sketched out notes of the many different topics to cover, in order to possibly ...