Soap and Hillary
Wake up early to the sound of helicopters, like many mornings. They, and loud debates, are all that upset the eerie calm outside our bolthole here. So here comes today’s first chopper, large, low, time to wake up. Many such mornings feel like the …
Descent into Kabul
Pushed back in Brisbane about 10 mins early, Singapore airlines don’t muck around. Service was wonderful to Singapore. Champagne. Luncheon. Roast beef and mushroom entrée, pork stew cacciatora, ice cream with strawberry coulis, cheeses with garnis…
Usable writing
Usable writing, usable content, stuff that readers can understand, is relevant to all who write – and to all who read. Carefully inspect literature you find about readable writing or readability. A search will return plenty of useful material, suc…
The pineappleskip resume
Pineappleskip learned about usability, instructional design, social marketing, revenue management, community engagement, and they seemed to have all kinda come together in prosecuting capacity development work. The pineappleskip philosophy is util…
Independence day
The posts here and earlier are snippets from my introduction to Papua New Guinea, and thus an introduction to this blog. They have a touristy feel to them. Wonderful to have a job that permits touristy moments! The lengthy time gap appears because…
Air Niugini Lounge Goroka
View of the Air Niugini Paradise Lounge in Goroka – all of it. Entered from the right side of pic after passing behind the check in desks. There was nowhere left to fit a chair. I declared an overflow seating area and pulled up a chair in the door…
Highlands Highway
The Highlands Highway, running about 500 km from Lae to Mt Hagen, is the lifeline of PNG. This view is typical, about 10 km east of Goroka. The road is spectacular in places, where it descends into deep valleys then winds over passes 2500m high, o…
Goroka is coffee
Goroka is the leading centre in PNG’s small coffee industry, with hundreds of small growers in the Eastern Highlands and a many mills. here, in a coffee warehouse, samples of coffee from a batch that has been milled are ‘cupped’ or graded to deter…
Goroka street scenes
View from the verandah of the Bird Of paradise Hotel in Goroka, on a cool morning – maybe 20 degrees. Goroka is about 1500 metres above sea level and has a mild climate – maximums in the mid twenties year round, with a rainy season. The vendors be…
Welcome to Goroka!
The unique uniforms of the Asaro Mud men are the tourist attraction in Goroka, although they actually come from Asaro, about 1/2 hour further up the Highlands Highway. The legend goes that, when the Asaro tribesmen were going to have a bit of a wa…
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