“Visa not required … but actually it is.” You can see what they said about tourist visas and Nauru in this screenshot: Of course this was all my fault, but I had at least dutifully checked with my visa service before leaving on the trip. A visa for Nauru? No visa, no boarding pass? You’re kidding. That’s when I realized I had a BIG problem. I might travel with vodka in 3-ounce bottles on occasion, but I’d never, ever check a bag. I said hello to the friendly Our Airline representative. About 7,000 people live there, and as I soon discovered, less than ten people visit on the average week. You can get the gist of it here-in short, it’s the world’s smallest island that is also a country. Most people haven’t heard much about Nauru. And now I’d be going to my fifth, and a difficult one at that. Four new countries! Getting so many at one time is tough for me these days, with less than thirty to go. I was glad that everything had gone so well on this trip. Yes, the airline is actually called Our Airline-it’s on the shortlist for “most random airline name” in the world. The plan was to put it off until I could appreciate it properly, the theory being that I’ll count a short stop in Micronesia as a country visit, but not one in the great Australia.Īfter a fun day trip in the city (I actually played the role of tourist for once), I pulled up to the counter of “Our Airline” in BNE airport. I had hoped to do a book tour in Oz this year, but it’s been pushed into 2012.Īt any rate, my visit to Brisbane was only transit-I was going on to Nauru-so because Australia is such a special place, I wasn’t going to count such a short stop as a country visit. Yep, I’m well over 150 countries now, but had never been Down Under. Then I flew on to Brisbane, Australia-a major country I’d never made it to for some reason. I went for a long run and wandered, feeling like my old traveling self. What did I think of it? I said it was nice enough, but would have been a long two years for me.Īfter that I had a side trip to Uzbekistan, which greatly exceeded expectations. Someone wrote me and said they had spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer. There is literally one road in Majuru, the capital of the Marshall Islands. OK, small isn’t the word: they were tiny.
All of them were interesting in their own way, if a bit small. I had made it to three island countries in the Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau.
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