Comments on: Pacific Itinerary – Part One

By: Philip

Philip — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 01:54:48 +0000

gary, let me just say I just started reading your blog and I love it! Please please keep it up!

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:06:01 +0000

Keep that in mind as I’m on the road.

I’ll be taking suggestions from the crowd of things to see, places to go.

Some of the things of scientific note I’m going to try and see on the first stage of my trip include the new island which just appeared off Tonga. I don’t know how the hell I’m going to get there, but I’ll have to ask around the marina I guess.

I’m also going to visit the oldest rocks in the world in Australia as well as the oldest evidence of life on earth.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:55:19 +0000

Good lord, I am the next comment after my first one on this post?!

Anyhow, I am reading “Death by Black Hole” by Neil deGrasse Tyson. In his chapter “The Information Trap”, he mentions that , because the earth is an oblate spheroid, as Newton predicted, .3% wider at the equator, Mt. Chimborazo’s summit in Ecuador is 1.33 miles further away from the Earth’s center than any other point on the planet.

If there is a tourist-friendly assent you can do there, it might be a consideration before you rush off to the Galapagos or wherever.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:24:01 +0000

Made me think of you. http://xkcd.com/c77.html

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:23:57 +0000

Sort of. Then again, most of the places in the pacific (and Atlantic and Indian) are that way by nature. Islands are small and out of the way.

I’d hardly be worthy of the domain name if I just hit the easy tourist spots.

By: Nathan Dintenfass

Nathan Dintenfass — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:18:55 +0000

Seems phase 1 of your trip is Journeys into Obscurity. Finding ever-smaller island nations that are progressively harder to get to.