I’ve been in Noumea, New Caledonia since Monday night, and it not nearly as exciting as being on the rim of Mt. Yasur in Vanuatu! But I coul...

Volcano Day was amazing. I left my bag at hotel reception and took just a few things for overnight. Air Taxi picked me up, then we fetched t...

Vanu-what? Vanuatu! That’s where I am. I came to see Naghol land diving (Saturday), and a volcano (Sunday). But Air Vanuatu’s big plane br...

That might be the broken plane I was supposed to arrive on yesterday. I improvised and flew from Sydney to Brisbane to New Caledonia to Vanu...

An unexpected day in Sydney, what to do? I thought about getting a day room at the airport hotel and sleeping off my jet lag. (Don't j...

My phone gets free T-Mobile data on United flights, so I'd gotten a message from Air Vanuatu that my 11:15 am SYD-Vanuatu flight had bee...

I'd been careful to get an upgradeable ticket, and then used a heap of points to get myself upgraded to Polaris class for the 15+ hour f...

I tried hunting for info on airport taxis in Vanuatu. You know, the kind of thing I'd once look up in my Lonely Planet, or after that, ...

Yesterday was legendary editor Mike Carlin's last day at DC. Here he is with several of us current DC editors.   I couldn't find thi...

Here's a couple pottery pieces I experimented with. I'm pretty pleased with how they came out.