Our journey to Sydney, Australia to catch the Seabourn Odyssey back to Hawaii begins with a Qantas flight.  This will be only my second flight on this airline, but my first one was a doozy.  Papua New Guinea was the 201st country to visit this blog site.    In 2012 I posted on a trip   I had nearly a quarter century before that year.  This adventure was published in   SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Humanity .  Incidentally, if you haven't read this book, here is the back cover. Here is partly what the final chapter reported. I traveled to the Independent State of  Papua New Guinea  ( PNG ) in 1989, no doubt one of the three most stressful experiences of my life. Most of what follows comes from pure memory, although I do keep files of all my trips, and I did obtain a conference proceedings of why I went there, which was because a professor friend from Michigan convinced me that I should give a talk at his energy conference in PNG, where he had temporarily moved. The  U.S. State Department now