{"id":244,"date":"2012-01-03T15:34:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T21:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/?p=244"},"modified":"2012-01-03T15:34:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T21:34:24","slug":"now-boarding-our-coach-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/2012\/01\/03\/now-boarding-our-coach-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Now boarding our Coach Passengers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-245\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-245   \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/files\/2012\/01\/Qantas-747-400.jpg\" alt=\"How awesome would it be to fly on this Beast with all the paintings!\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How awesome would it be to fly on this Beast with all the paintings!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well we did it, we took the plunge! \u00a0We now have one way tickets to Papua New Guinea! \u00a0We will have a one night layover in Brisbane Australia to give the family a break from Planes, trains and automobiles. \u00a0We depart Monday February 20th at 6:15 pm from Norfolk International&#8230;and arrive in New Guinea on February 23rd&#8230;not sure which day of the week though. \u00a0We cross the International date line on our flight over the Pacific and somewhere along there we completely skip Tuesday, February 21st! \u00a0The only way I can explain that is &#8220;Time Travel,&#8221; eat your heart out Captain Kirk. \u00a0He had to sling shot around the sun and all we have to do is fly west&#8230;for a long, long time! \u00a0Anyway, we end up in Brisbane Australia on the 22nd which will be Wednesday&#8230;I think??? \u00a0Whatever&#8230;not only will we have traveled into the future on this trip, but we&#8217;ll also have crossed the equator \u00a0into the Southern hemisphere! \u00a0I recall crossing the equator one other time in my life while in the service, but it wasn&#8217;t very pleasant. \u00a0Some of you know all about the Shellback initiation all sailors have to endure the first time they cross the equator. \u00a0I remember my knee caps were raw and my hands looked like hamburger from crawling all over the ship for hours, hanging my head over the side shouting for flipper, and crawling through a tunnel of a weeks worth of spoiled leftovers from the mess deck. \u00a0<!--more-->It took multiple showers to get all the bacon grease out of my hair&#8230;but I digress. \u00a0One of the strange things about the Southern Hemisphere is that when you flush the toilet the water swirls the opposite direction&#8230;weird huh? \u00a0And instead of the &#8220;righty tighty, lefty loosey&#8221; rule for nuts and bolts its, &#8220;lefty tighty, righty lossey!&#8221; \u00a0Just kidding&#8230;about the bolts, the toilet water really does swirl the opposite way. \u00a0The flight time from our own Norfolk Intl. 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