Micronesia Travel Blogs

Yapping
Mar 25, 2007 (9 photos)

... called the Federated States of Micronesia. After the defeat of the occupying Japanese forces in WWII, the islands of Micronesia became (like Palau) a Trust Territory administered by the USA until they gained full independence in 1986. Although there are a ...

Oops, I did it again!
Jun 23, 2008 (6 photos)

... group in the south western part of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia, along with Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap. Chuuk is the most populous of the FSM's states. Geographically, it is also part of ...

Happy birthday, Hubby !!!
Jun 26, 2008 (12 photos)

... a little present and a stupid card for when he wakes up. He is a difficult man to buy presents for, let alone in Micronesia! I arrange for some stuff yesterday, limping my way around while Hubby was diving. What is the best present: diving with him! Forget ...

Want to come diving in Chuuk ? Read this first !
Jul 3, 2008 (3 photos)

Today, we are leaving Chuuk for Australia. No, we are nothing going to T's family but to the other side of the country: Cairns. We did not do a lot besides diving: our land tour was cancelled because of the rain and we just could not get enough of the ...

It is a sad day ...
Jun 30, 2008 (1 photos)

... for Chuuk, for the resort, for divers but specially for Jane and her almost husband. It is dark and pouring all day. Is the nature crying? Last night, Jane died. Nobody can believe it. Least of all, her husband to be. They were ...

Special entry for Tony's ... euh ... thing
Jul 1, 2008 (3 photos)

At the end of the dive, Hubby goes back into the wreck. Business as usual, quoi. About 30 meter down, he signs to me: come here. And what is there? This! . . . I cannot believe it. Although, I was a bit nervous going diving today, I just want ...

Meet Yap, above water
Jun 3, 2008 (21 photos)

  We spent yesterday, surfing the net. We booked Palau: we are there for 8 days (exclusive the arrival and departure days) and go diving for 6 days. Unbelievable: we also booked our first 3 nights in Guam. There, also, we had to choose from second ...

Duuuuuuuuuude
Jul 2, 2008 (27 photos)

The day before yesterday, we went back to the Truk Stop for diner, with Kelly. And unfortunately, it was also goodbye: she leaves tomorrow. Yesterday and today: diving! With the highlight on: Dr T's thing, as you saw on the previous entry. And a ...

Still do not feel well and have a lovely day !
May 30, 2008

  Tourista (almost) done but I wake up with a smashing head ache. Don't want to go diving like that! Hubby stays in bed too. I do not insist he goes diving on his own. The dive mast did not buddy him up yesterday. It is NOT safe to dive on your own! ...

About box fish and rats
May 31, 2008 (12 photos)

  Pick up at 8. It is a rough ride today. The dives are nice. Hubby finds me a box fish!!! Both of the dives are more than 70 minutes!   Sailing back, Dr T does not feel so well: sea too wild. I have never been seasick in my life but I feel a ...

Jaws !!!
May 29, 2008 (12 photos)

  Although I do like the food, I get sick at night. Yup, yup (or should I say: Yap, Yap?) the tourista! Believe me: it is NOT a good idea to go diving when you have a close relationship with the toilet bowl. Tony goes on his own and what do we see: ...

I am attacked AND bitten !
Jun 1, 2008 (6 photos)

  Happy birthday, mummy. Nothing prepared me for today's trauma! It looks like a perfect day in paradise.   With our 2 divemasters/captains, we sail to the first diving spot. Julie joins us too. She is the underwater photographer of the ...

Back in Micronesia
Jun 23, 2008

We fly to Chuuk today. Bye bye Guam. I did enjoy it. I would not choose for the hotel again: http://www.guamhotel.com/ In hindsight, we should have looked a bit more. The place was filthy. The hall smelled bad. Mind you: every day it had another ...

To Palau
Jun 4, 2008 (3 photos)

  Pick-up 5h30. Airport: 05h45, where we have a loooong wait. People who arrive 2 hours later are still on time. It is a goodbye to a strange world. The check in hall is designed to be uncozy. The 'chairs' are horrible: metal benches. In front ...

The weather is Belgium is better !
May 28, 2008 (3 photos)

  Since you never know what happens the next day: we do not go to the stone money bank: it is an hour's walk and it is pouring all day! So, we decide to stay home. Have a lazy day. We have to book our next destinations! Planes are booked but we have ...

Topl.ss girls everywhere,even in church.T l.ves it
May 27, 2008 (26 photos)

... an island in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, the least westernized state of the Federated States of Micronesia. Yap's cultures and traditions are still strong compared to other neighboring islands. The "island" of Yap actually consists ...

Chuuk diving
Jun 29, 2008 (36 photos)

After a day of lazing around (sitting on our terrace, enjoying the view and rest my knee, we are back to diving. Dr T has a rental mask and practices our new camera. On the macro stuff. In the dark. The wrecks are indeed, the best we saw, ever. The ...

Random Pics
Feb 1, 2007 (15 photos)

some random pics to expunge upon the world........your welcome!

Mid Service Training
Dec 10, 2006 (20 photos)

... they are......well, island specks scattered throughout the millions of square miles of ocean that make up the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau....volunteers coming into the "home" island of Pohnpei from places like the outer islands of Yap, where ...

Dad's Visit
Aug 22, 2007

Dad took the long journey out to Micronesia for a week of fun, to see where and what im doing out here in the Pacific....we had a blast....keeping it short, here are pics....enjoy....

School Pics
Dec 1, 2006 (12 photos)

Here are some pics from school. I teach 7th and 8th grade English reading, writing, grammar, and spelling to some really great kids. Jeff

Rohi Life...
Sep 29, 2006 (23 photos)

Some things are easy to transcribe by note. Others remain more elusive, sensory items that look too simple when you sit and take the time. But these are the items, woven together, that create the delicate patchwork of a life. Life, as such, is no easy ...

Pics
Sep 16, 2006 (12 photos)

Some more pics of life.

Home.
Jul 12, 2006 (14 photos)

I sit around the sakau stone, watching the village men pound the pepper root into a mash with circular boulders in a rhythmic, beating mood that both puts me on edge, and settles my mind. Waiting while the mash is strained through the stripped bark of the ...

2 months and counting!
Aug 19, 2006 (5 photos)

Long ago, 16 men and women set out in a huge canoe, looking for a new land, a place to settle. Noone knows where they came from. One day, they encountered an octopus named Latakika and began talking with him. As they told him of their journey, he turned ...

Pohnpei Dreamin
May 26, 2007

... and funds.  Then, back to Pohnpei for the homestretch, broken up by my dad taking a long, long trip from NYC  to Micronesia to come visit me for a week in August (love you pops!!! Just remember the 6 Pack of Microbrew...mmmm, good beer, how I ...

Pics
Sep 29, 2007 (10 photos)

some more pics.....have started a new blog with my new adventures on wordpress, jeffdow.blogspot.com will be transferring pics as soon as I can get to a decent internet connection.... Jeff

Sunday in Rohi, Pohnpei
Oct 30, 2006

From my personal journal........ Sunday in Rohi 10.30.06 Tomorrow is Halloween. The venerable American tradition, memories of past adventures and misadventures, stomach aches, toilet papering trees, etc. That thought just crossed my mind as I ...

Yap COS and Island Life
Jul 20, 2007 (22 photos)

... itself was a chance to recount stories of our island lives, and also to start thinking about the future. Some will stay in Micronesia, most will leave. But we will be forever changed by what we have experienced here in the Pacific. Yap is a beautiful ...

SE ASIA TAKE 4
Jan 12, 2007 (31 photos)

well well well......just returned to the "rock" from an amazing three weeks in SE Asia, a place that never fails to impress, even visiting for the 4th time in a few years. Indonesia to Thailand to Cambodia to Vietnam, Ankor Wat to Hill Tribes, Weekend ...