We are weathering our visit to PNG well, but it is not easy touring here.  The temperature falls to 74 at night.  The humidity is 80% at best.  The electricity turns off  at 11 p.m.  One of the fans operates by battery.  The highway is paved except where it has broken to pieces.  The side roads are simply cuts through the trees.  Our resort has creature comforts.  The people outside of the fence have scarcely that.  Most houses are about 8x15 feet rectangles on stilts with windowless and screenless openings.  Many along the highway have feeble lights.  I don’t know how they power them.  The resort has a generator, of course.  Many of the staff live here where life is so much richer.

The young children are naked.  Older folks have informal clothing.  Few wear shoes in the bush.  People walk about.  Open trucks act as buses.  Life is hot and hard for everyone.  I would find it hard to exist here without a retreat to the resort, but the people of PNG must.  At first view of this land one feels one has to do something, but one cannot really change everything here.  We do what we can and our visit provides real support.  That is something.  So, we enjoy our time here among people who are glad to have us here to see a beautiful country where life is so different.