ESA Bay View Hotel Colonia

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 of us, a female part of a family is waiting for the plane too. The youngest one (no idea whether she is 12 or 25) is sobbing all the time, her face in her sweater, shoulders shaking. It looks fake to me. Do not ...

... 5 minutes. So, we step into the restaurant of the Pathway hotel. I have a nice spaghetti Bolognese. Unfortunately, Hubby's hamburger arrives when my food is almost finished. AND: we are the only costumers! Home, we watch the 2 DVD's Julie gave us. So today: tour of the island. Well, we are disappointed. Nice van with a Yapese picks us up. Our guide speaks English very well. His stop word is djeeeez. He also chews beetle nut. All the time ...

... for me: because I am not good enough in diving and do not have the patience. Then: I am diving along, minding my own business right? 2 to 3 meters under me is a trigger fish. I turn on my camera fiddle with the settings and that, that THING is flying to me. Split second and it attacked my mask. I could hear it cracking!!! Before I realised (and I could not see him anymore) he bit my arm: was stuck to it. It hurt like crazy. I ...

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 bit sick too. Ah, well, the leftover of being sick, I guess. Now ...

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! And: I LOVE my day! We have time for each other, Dr T can catch up with some sleep (slept very badly again lately) and we still ...

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: indeed the shark dive!!! He ...

... 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 few modern hotels, a handful of convenience stores, one Internet cafe, plenty of cars, and most people dressing in clothing you and I would wear, Yap still remains a traditional society amidst the modern conveniences. Towns are still connected by ancient stone footpaths, village ...

... His Majesty O'Keefe", with Burt Lancaster. I'm interested to rent this when I get back! We arrived in Yap on Wednesday and figured we'd be able to hang out with the Yap State people for 3 days, but found they had a holiday on Friday and the offices would be closed. We asked what holiday it was and most didn't know. They just knew they had the day off. We found it was FSM Independence Day, but could not find out from what. So we spent 2 busy days in the office ...

My sister, age 10, wrote: In the morning I felt pretty good but couldn't eat half of my breakfast. Afterward Mom and Dad went to church but left us behind. When they got back I told them that I wasn't feeling good. They said I probably had some of the flu Ardie had so I took some medicine and ...

In the morning, Ardie and I went out onto the balcony and the Japanese honeymooners were having a celebration of some kind out on the beach. We wanted to stay but we had to go to the airport. We almost missed the bus! Once on Tap, we got our bus to the Rai View Inn ...