Palace Tamuning

... for more blogs this month as Im gonna try and dive as much as I can before I leave. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! I can feel it to! Going from 86 to 36 degrees is going to be a blast! <br><br>BTW.. I also had a chance while joe was finishing his class to check out some WWII spots around the dive harbor. I found some old Japanese "pillboxes" made around a little peninsula. They covered them with rocks and set them up to try and ...

... experience and it helps the time pass quicker. So far I've knocked out over 130 missions all over the Pacific and have had the opportunity to work with several different aircraft other than just the B52. But my weather life really isn't all that exciting and Im sure if that's what I wrote about a lot less people would read these blogs.. unless they needed a sleep aid haha.<br> Ok so Saturday we went down to the Navy base on the south part of the island to check ...

... A group of reservists from the North Carolina tanker unit followed us on our journey into the abyss. Reaching the mudside cliff and descending it were very strenous and had a very steep slope so getting down to the actual falls was very interesting but a lot of fun. The first falls, Lower Sigua reaches down 70 feet to the pool below. Its about 20 feet deep and maybe 30 wide at the most. But the water felt sooooooo ...

... so far where you can experience this. I included a bit of brief history here so you can get a feel for what we dove... Enjoy!<br><br>"Ship 1... Tokai Maru<br> Ship HistoryA Japanese passenger-cargo freighter put in service in August, 1930. Used by the Osaka Shosen Company as one of their modern fast luxury freighters traveling from Tokyo to New York.Re-commissioned as a freighter under contract to the Japanese Imperial Navy in October ...

... sun finished its trek across the horizon and we lost sunlight. So we got some pretty amazing views on the way up and down the cliff,  However there is more to come on this trip b/c were gonna make it next time! Here are some of the shots we got on the way back up.<br> <br>Ok UPDATE.. the next day motivated to find this damn place the next day, we made the trek one more time, only to find probably the coolest place Ive ever seen. The ...

... works! So: he has to HOLD his regulator in his mouth, equalize WITHOUT pinching his nose (I just cannot do that), put stones in his pocket (AND in mine) and inflate his BCD by blowing air into it with his mouth. Ever tried that at 30 meter? Brave man: I would have aborted the dive. I see him struggling and in the mean time: I cannot stay down! With an extra weight! When I see Hubby collecting stones too, I know: the guy ...

... will send over the technician. When he has not arrived yet after an hour, we decide to leave: it is getting hot in here! And he arrives. Looks at it for a minute and decides that the motor is broken. What to do but the move to another room? Dr T goes down stairs. We are only booked for 3 nights. He asks for a better deal on the room and the car if we extend. The receptionist says he will talk to his manager. On which Tony nicely answers ...

... to find room for just one more bite, and it supports me in this quest. I can walk out of restaurants without staggering, I'm not lying prostrate in the back of a car (anymore), and aside from a few throat gurgles, I'm blessedly free of heartburn and other G.I. flare-ups. I wasn't so cruel as to force dessert after my Chamorran feast, despite the ice cream crepes, chocolate spoon cake and Kahlua tiramisu, but when I saw the Cold Stone Creamery an ...

Well, I made it back to Denver with little problems in spite of the missing forms of identification. Fortunately the copies helped and going through Customs and Immigration was relatively painless. Wanted to include a blip about Guam, so pretend I'm still there! Hafa adai! (sounds like half a day, but means Hello, how are you, in Chamarro). Spent a day in Guam and found it to be very beautiful. It is quite western and very ...

... for a while. We arrived at the Guam Hilton, which was luxurious but not nicer than others I've seen, and walked in on the red carpet, past an elaborate miniature train setup straight ahead, a Christmas tree on the right, and a lounge and coffee bar area, and headed right through the main lobby down some stairs. We signed in at a table to get a few free beverage tickets and to put our name in for a door prize raffle, and headed in. Although we were all in Hawaiian ...