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The sign on the fence entering the US from the Canadian side warns you in stark black and white that you are an alien about to illegally enter foreign territory , an act punishable by war or indefinite internment at Guantanamo Bay ( more of Cuba later ) . In Germany we parted : Pam to London to visit her parents , Ian to Rome to visit the Food and Agriculture Organization , a UN agency that he is doing digital library work for. ( He came away with a cheque for US $ 50K for the research project , so it was worth it . The agreement states that priority must be given to full-time staff when allocating extra weekend work . - - though the biggest problem in this one seemed to be how to keep the ducks out of the swimming pool , not a dilemma that Ian recalls from his student days . His real business was examining a PhD in Electrical Engineering , but he also gave a seminar in Computer Science and played much music . But you will be able to download it from the Net . The hills are sacred to the American Indians , and on the very top are some dreambeds . On arrival on a Saturday afternoon , he was whisked off the plane and taken straight to a bar where the band that he joins on trips to Christchurch was playing . Noam Chomsky , originally an American linguist who was Ian 's hero in his days of speech synthesis at Essex and now a leading left-wing intellectual in the US , came to Waikato to give an inspirational , and awe-inspiring , speech on the new world order . There are some beautiful anchorages with bleached white sand , one with a lovely waterfall just a short stroll through the bush . Religious leaders ( each colony has three ) are the overall community bosses , and are appointed in much the same way ( though in this case other communities ' religious leaders are consulted too ) . No way , I 'm completely exhausted , the body complained . Brian was very keen to sail , the others less so . Lambs gambol happily until they reach a point one day when they look around and say " I 'm a sheep ! Where we are it is stormy , a little rainy , and dull . An electronic spreadsheet is a large grid of cells into which data can be placed , stored and manipulated . After hiking for over an hour , the mystery was eventually revealed to be a packing case and other assorted pieces of driftwood , stacked up in a primitive sculpture , now only a few hundred metres away . Of course , the sailing summer was dominated by the America 's Cup .