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Final few hours on Rapa Nui.
I passed some time by going for a walk through the Hanga Roa business district.
I decided I really needed a T-shirt. How could I travel all this way but go home without a T-shirt?
Gotta be a T-shirt around here somewhere. And in fact I did find one.
I also took a picture that, except for the rooster, duplicates one I took when we arrived at Hotel Otai. It's a nice shot of the ocean, but there sure are a lot of telephone poles in the way. Then, a few weeks after I returned home from this trip I bought one of the new Apple iPad devices they're selling with the promise of improved AI photo editing. So just as an experiment I looked for a photo that could use some editing. and this one popped up.
Ta-daaa! Is that great? Or is that scary? You decide.
Before leaving, I took another walk through the grounds of Hotel Otai.
I said goodbye to the alarm clock.
It was a gorgeous spring day. And when I get home in a couple of days it will be fall, and instead of getting warmer the days will be getting colder. This is not fair.
I was worried that my new red T-shirt would be too much for my overstuffed bag to handle, but it fit just fine.
I made all my wonderful traveling companions smile for the camera at breakfast. Left to right we have Martha, Christina, Andrea, Mary, and Joanne.
Here we have Tove, Abby, Pat, Al, and Donna.
And that’s our wonderful guide Alvaro on the left, sitting with John, Cathy, Lisa, Paulette, and Tom.
I just realized I didn’t take a picture of me! And I think Suzanne got left out somehow. Maybe I can get a picture of her tomorrow.
We got to see another moai after all! He was pretty pitiful; the elements have not been kind to him over the years. Will he be our final moai?
The whole gang is on the bus headed to the airport.
Oh look! There was one mo' moai after all.
A Hanga Roa restaurant. I'm sure it's nice but I'll bet we got better food with Road Scholar.
A birdman supermarket.
Now we have arrived at the airport.
We were serenaded!
And now we stand in line to go through security. Goodbye Rapa Nui. We have had a wonderful time.
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