I am now on a boat somewhere south or east of my home in Lifuka. I am traveling with my Ha’apai Healthy Eating and Oral Health Peace Corps Partnership Program (PCPP) Project team to almost every inhabited island in Ha’apai, professing the importance of healthy eating and oral hygiene like traveling salesmen. And I am very tired; they told me to be ready to leave somewhere between 4 and 9am.
It’s the trip I’ve been excitedly waiting on for months, and the final portion of my immensely successful health project.
I will be out of internet contact for the next week, but I pre-written posts scheduled to appear every day I am gone. If you are interested in following my hypothetical track, it is as follows:
Day 1: Mo’unga’one, Kauvai. Sleep in Lifuka.
Day 2: Lofanga, Felemea, ‘Uiha. Sleep in ‘Uiha.
Day 3: Fonoi, Mango, Nomuka. Sleep in Nomuka.
Day 4: Nomuka.
Day 5: ‘Oua, Tunga, Matuku. Sleep in Ha’afeva.
Day 6: Fotuha’a, Kotu. Sleep in Ha’afeva.
Day 7: Ha’afeva, return to Lifuka.
There is always some risk when traveling by boat, but do not fret. I will be carrying a Peace Corps mandated satellite phone, GPS emergency locator beacon, life jacket, military-grade infirmary, and I will drape myself in a sumo-sized cocoon of bubble wrap. I will be texting my location as I go, and will be lathering in sunblock. I’ll be fine.
Posts and pictures coming in a week...
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