written and photographed by Mary L. Peachin
Mar 1997, Vol. 1 No. 6
Traveling alone, ma’am? Gold miners, returning from a few days vacation in Cairns, Australia to their jobs in Papua New Guinea, were curious about a woman boarding the Air Niugini flight alone.
Two hours later, the plane landed in Port Moresby. The miners transferred to another flight back to the mine. I wandered through the airport, teeming with locals watching airplanes land, to the nearby domestic terminal to catch a connecting flight on a Fokker 28 to Hoskins, the largest city on the island of New Britain.