Travel to Easter Island--Rapa Nui?

#41

Bad news… we rap-fans can’t buy property there…

https://www.quora.com/What-do-I-need-to-know-if-I-really-want-to-move-to-Easter-Island-all-the-way-from-Romania-within-the-required-conditions-and-restrictions-for-it-How-is-life-there-and-costs-and-how-much-would-a-place-to-live-cost

But we can house-swap:

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#42

If you’re in Valparaiso, visit Museo Fonck

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#43

I would have been very surprised if it was possible for me to buy a farm on Easter Island. Probably not very much power equipment there and gas is probably really high. So you’re working by hand. So over time maybe not so much fun anyway.

Kind of like the old joke about "I don’t want to join any group that would let me be a member ".

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#44

Yeah… think I will visit… stay a few days… leave with pockets of soil and call it good… start my own bacterium colony in Missouri… lol.

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#45

Nice find… I have friends in Chile… this could be a first step - seeing this Moai in Valparaiso.

#46

If in London, they have a nice sculpture at British museum.

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#47

Nice too!

Of course… duh!

The Brits stole all the best archeological finds throughout the world. Hahaha.

I was at the British Museum and saw the Rosetta Stone and Lord Elgin marbles… the peat bog bodies, but I don’t remember the Moai.

Then, again the Museum is massive. And my interest in Rapa Nui… rapamycin was decades away.

#48

I was there a year ago, and I was totally unaware they had “stolen” this artifact. It was an exciting surprise and I was able to take this photo.

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#49

Hahaha… “STOLEN” just messing with my Brit friends on here. Looks to be a small one… Mini-Moai.

I am sure the Rapa Nui locals offered :palm_up_hand: it freely to the UK. If not, add one more British Museum artifact to be returned. Hahaha.

And, they likely said to Dutch Explorer Jacob Roggeveen … you know… Isla de Pascua has a much better sound to it.

No doubt, I am feeling my oats after a great workout at the gym.

As a Museum Director at a medical university… I get it. It’s difficult to make historical… human story telling artifacts available to the public and respect repatriation…returning items of cutural heritage.

I deal with a century of collected human remains… great for teaching medicine… and yet… they were someone’s loved one.
Tough.