Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice ! Welcome to Goroka, Papua New Guinea, the site of our 2nd stage of the adventure. This is the Eastern Highlands Province, best known for its sweet potatoes and world renowned coffee production, also hosts an annual cultural show named the Goroka Show. Though it's a country rich with natural resources (gold, copper, natural gas), that could easily make it the Saudia Arabian type of wealth, it's also filled with government...

Now that we've given you the picture of the turbulent beginning we experienced during our first 5 days here in Papua New Guinea, let's move on to a bit of the Sepik River village culture, in particular, the Kanganaman Village and the Crocodile Initiation. The plan of this stage of our adventure, to head inland and cruise the mighty Sepik River in a dugout canoe. Running some 700 miles, the Sepik is more than just a river; it's a living museum populated by compl...

Greetings from Wewak, Papua New Guinea ! Our 14 hour flight from LA to Brisbane was fantastic, Virgin Australia on a 777 in Business Class lie flat beds - excellent service and a very smooth flight. Immigration into Australia was a breeze, and some layover time before the connecting 3 hour flight into Port Moresby Papua New Guinea. All together, 17 hours in the air and several hours in airports, and here we are ! We spent the night at a great hotel in Port...

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 ...