Rode bicycles ~5 miles to the closest beach each day. Dodged falling coconuts. Explored WWII fortifications & temple ruins. Sailed with a French couple to a motu to snorkel. Rode our bikes around the island (~26 miles). On the far side— kids ran out of their school to see the ‘haoles’ riding by.
Hello World!
TAHITI + BORA BORA June 1974
Just arrived in Papeete, Tahiti, via a Pan American jumbo jet from Los Angeles. En route to Bora Bora with my sister.
Stayed overnight at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore—where I encountered my first ever cockroach—before flying to Denpasar. Of course my luggage was stranded in Hong Kong. I arrived in Denpasar wearing a long sleeved shirt & long pants... Bought a batik dress in the morning which I still wear.
BALI 1978
I flew to Bali with the twist that by flying Sub-Lo I couldn’t fly direct to Singapore. Rather had to fly to Tokyo, change planes, fly to Hong Kong, change planes. And finally fly to Singapore. [Photo of rice harvesting in a drained field. Scanned from a slide using a borrowed Nikon.]
September 1976. Adak, Alaska
I’ve been a bit distracted the past few months... This photo was taken as we sailed south from Adak Island. On the military flight from Anchorage to Adak, the Navy guy seated next to me, teased. Saying we’d be chased back into port within a day or so.