While you two were sloshing around in Fjordland I think I was away in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. Fewer fjords there, but magnificent beauty and heaps of potential that has been frittered away by typical human foolishness.
Perhaps the US should invade Zimbabwe to remove its despot and restore democracy- most of the world would support you on that one.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
