2021-08-16, 07:43 AM
I somehow missed seeing the original post and trip report from March. Sad to finally read it under the current circumstances...
It was lost back in 2003 when we took the eye off the ball during the short window in which such things might be made to work. Can't really evaluate alternate realities but I suppose it is possible it would have ended the same even if we didn't take the eye off the ball back then, we certainly made a botch of it over pretty much all of the subsequent years as well.
Well, sadly I suspect in about 30 years we will find an opportunity somewhere else in the world to make most of the same mistakes all over again. As they say, history doesn't necessarily repeat but it sure does rhyme.
Thanks for sharing your trip report, such a unique place to visit. The photo of the girl waiting to go so school hits particularly hard today.
It was lost back in 2003 when we took the eye off the ball during the short window in which such things might be made to work. Can't really evaluate alternate realities but I suppose it is possible it would have ended the same even if we didn't take the eye off the ball back then, we certainly made a botch of it over pretty much all of the subsequent years as well.
Well, sadly I suspect in about 30 years we will find an opportunity somewhere else in the world to make most of the same mistakes all over again. As they say, history doesn't necessarily repeat but it sure does rhyme.
Thanks for sharing your trip report, such a unique place to visit. The photo of the girl waiting to go so school hits particularly hard today.