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Australia – My Third Continent

In 1996 I was a sales guy for a 25-person Boston-based software company that had made a reputation for itself in a small slice of the higher education market. All our customers at the time were either in the US or Canada, but somehow someway a consultant in Melbourne had heard about us and keptContinue reading “Australia – My Third Continent”

Papua New Guinea – My final few days and some final thoughts (Aug 20th, 21st, and 22nd)

Emotionally recovering from the remarkable experience at the Mount Hagen Cultural Festival, the last evening, after we flew back to Port Moresby, was spent having a delicious group dinner – though with horrendously slow service – at a local restaurant named “Bacchus.” Yup – kind of a weird name, given our locale, made even weirderContinue reading “Papua New Guinea – My final few days and some final thoughts (Aug 20th, 21st, and 22nd)”

Papua New Guinea – Day Two (Aug 10)

Seriously though, tomorrow’s post WILL be about Papua New Guinea. Yesterday, though, was another day spent in Brisbane. The last time I was in Brisbane was back in 2019 for work, and we had an evening event that included a cruise on the Brisbane River. This trip I decided I wanted to take a cruiseContinue reading “Papua New Guinea – Day Two (Aug 10)”

Papua New Guinea – Day One (Aug 9)

Admittedly, the title of this post isn’t accurate. Yesterday wasn’t about PNG, it was, instead. a day spent in Brisbane after 24 hours or so of travel, from DC to Charlotte to LAX to Brisbane (that last leg was 17 1/2 hours gate-to-gate). I did grab about six hours of sleep on the last longContinue reading “Papua New Guinea – Day One (Aug 9)”

Papua New Guinea – Intro (Aug 9 – 21)

Headed off to Papua New Guinea, with an initial stop in Brisbane, Australia for a couple of days. I’ll write more about both Brisbane and Papua New Guinea (I’ll be calling it “PNG” going forward) in the days ahead, though I’ll say that my primary reason for visiting PNG is the Mt Hagen Sing SingContinue reading “Papua New Guinea – Intro (Aug 9 – 21)”