Tumon Bay Capital Hotel

... island maybe a mile southwest of Guam thats almost uninhabited. The currents underwater were pretty strong but it made the dives so much cooler! The first dive was along the reef ridge on the east side and the second was on the west. For both dives you barely had to swim because the current was so strong so you could litterally just kick it and float on down the reef. Because not a lot of divers make it out here and fisherman are rare there was a ...

... a dive sale they do for a monthly customer appreciation day. Unfortunately they didn't have any real killer deals that weren't way out of my league as to what I can afford for dive gear. ( the cheapest gear packages were still around 900 dollars for low end stuff). However they did have a boat going out for 25 dollars so last minute we decided to grab some tanks and jump on it before it left the harbor. The 2 dives went out to "Blue and White", which is just outside the ...

... up and I climbed down maybe a 15 foot waterfall CAREFULLY to reach the top of Lower Sigua. Theres no backing down now! No way I was going back up that muddy hill and sawgrass and then down the rope cliff all over again. Only one way down. Time to man up! So looking down.. which is a little necessary to see where your jumping and what to clear did NOT help my confidence one bit! But I took the plunge and it was very worth it ...

... windows and pop up in front, scaring the tourists.. They seemed to find it pretty comical as well. But I got to take my camera on this one and stayed at about 30 feet. I snapped some pretty amazing pictures with it and we stayed down for nearly an hour. I had also bought a bottle of Vienna sausages to feed the fish and as you can see from some of these pictures they just nibble at them right out of your hand. I also got some pretty cool pictures of the sunset after the dive..<br> 

... ja teen jumankeuta laukun lentolipuista, jotka olen samalla hinnalla saanut! Ajattelin kyllä selvitä ilman autoa tämän reissun, mutta niin kuin muuallakin Yhdysvalloissa, niin aivan turha yritys ja ei tule mitään! Muutaman päivän katselin meininkiä ja sen jälkeen oli ihan pakko ottaa auto alle. No, tulipa nyt ajeltua koko saari sitten läpi ja nähtyä hiukan erilaisempaakin meininkiä kuin nämä Tumonin luksuskaupat. Saaren eteläosa on nimittäin täysin ...

... vesiputouksia, lampia, kilpikonnia, karppeja ja kaikkea mitä Japanissa olettaakin näkevänsä. Taatusti käymisen arvoinen paikka, vaikka ei Naritasta edes lento lähtisikään. Minun mielestä järkevintä kuitenkin on, että ottaa viimeisen hotelliyön tänne Naritalle ja kävelee sitten kaikessa rauhassa nämä hommat läpi ja latautuu lentoon. Jos olet aamuvirkku, niin vedä rundi vaikka heti aamulla. Finnairin kone ainakin lähtee vasta kello 11, että kivan aamulenkin ehtii komeasti ...

... circle of the northern part then drove south. Since Guam was a major battlefield during WWII, there are lots of monuments and memorials commemorating the heroic acts of the brave men and women of the Allied power, which also describe the events that took place in Guam. I noticed that there were lots of Japanese tourists in Guam.

Things went pretty smoothly getting to Guam. The security lady in the Nagoya airport insisted on hand inspecting the bicycle, so I unpacked the whole thing in the floor of the airport ticketing area. At least they let me help. In the US, they would have insisted that I not touch anything, but wouldn't have had a clue how to pack it up properly. She went about it with typical Japanese courtesy and professionalism (and white gloves).

... for clothes. Not only was I at a mall, I was at MACY's at Lennox. Now I was at Macy's Micronesia Mall. This mall, while interesting, is not the exotic locale I imagined when I thought of sights to see in Guam. I am grateful to the kind women at the Macy's who helped me find something simple, and on clearance. We headed back to the hotel and I called JAL to see if ...

It's interesting the things you remember from childhood. I remember being separated from my family on the flight to Honolulu and having the man seated next to me pick at his teeth with a toothpick for most of the journey. I remember the stillness of the Honolulu airport at 5 am, and buying a box of macademia nut chocolates when the shops finally opened. And I remember Donna telling me that if I didn't ...