Back in good ole Akapmɨnggɨ after a 2-day journey, complete with a capsized canoe, ruined cargo, and the near break-out of a fight between members of the two Chini villages.

Anyways, downriver canoe trips make for great opportunities to figure out the semantics of directional verbs. If you want to say, "I'm leaving/going" in Chini, you have to know which of at least 7 possible verbs to use, depending on where you're heading. It's also even more complicated than that, since they don't all take the same tense-aspect-realis morphology. It's basically a linguist's dream, though I suppose mind-numbingly boring for everyone else!