When I go back to Apia from Pago Pago to catch my onward flight next day to Tonga, the place is under water, worst rainy season in years, and there’s a major storm coming in Saturday. Hopefully I’ll make it out before the deluge. Hopefully I can find something to eat in Tonga on a […]
California time is only two hours difference from Apia, Samoa being on daylight savings time, same day even. So the sun rises around 7am and sets 8-ish. I heard people in Fiji say it’s a nine-hour flight from there to LA, but I won’t be so lucky. Mine’s that just to Honolulu, what with a
Pago Pago, Samoa Samoa – Make Mine Americano Read More »
My flight from Fiji to Samoa is one of those God-awful affairs that occurs in the dead of night and is best forgotten. I had assumed it was at this hour because the flight continued on to Hawaii, but no, that’s a different schedule. This one was not even half-full and exists for what reason
Hungry for Samoa? Supersize It! Read More »
The term ‘South Pacific’ conjures up many images, most of them exotic and alluring, evoking images of booty-twitching girls, deep-sea diving, and exotic rituals, snapshots gleaned from the S. Pac mega-malls of Hawaii and Tahiti. What it does NOT usually evoke are images of incredible vastness and diversity. We’re talking about a third of the
Fiji on the Installment Plan – Piece of Cake, Split Two Ways Read More »
This trip’s more than half over already, and the real meat of it is still yet to come, the Melanesian and Polynesian islands in a radius from Fiji. The hardest part- Papua New Guinea- is long gone by now, and I seem to have survived it with little or no trauma. I spent a couple
Solomon Islands – Tanggio! Disfela Bilong Amerika Likim Tumas Read More »
