We then went to the Kon Tiki Museum which is the home of Thor Heyerdahl’s boats and objects from his many expeditions, including Easter Island statues and a full-size whale shark. Thor first sailed from South America to the Marquesa Islands is 1947 on the Kon Tiki, a balsa wood raft, to prove that Polynesia most likely had contact with South America in the ancient past. In 1955 he was the first to excavate the statues on Easter Island. In 1969, he built the Ra I papyrus boat in front of the pyramids with the assistance of native peoples from Chad, to attempt to prove that the Egyptians could have sailed one to the New World. This boat sank, but not too far from the coast. In 1970 he built and sailed Ra II (built in Morocco by natives from South America) and reached his goal of the Americas. It is interesting that at that time the papyrus came from Sudan and Morocco as there was no longer any in Egypt. When we were in Egypt there were papyrus art stores in abundance, wonder where the papyrus came from. Norm remembers reading his book, The Ra Expeditions in high school. Finding his museum was an unexpected surprise.