The Saipan-pan

I don’t think I was prepared for Saipan. Most of the places I’ve been in the Pacific have been….well, Pacific. There has been a common thread to them. They are all sort of laid back and underdeveloped to various degrees. They take pride in local customs and languages, even if they are only used to …

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Marshall Islands Internet

For a country so tied to the US, I had rather assumed that the Marshalls would have decent internet connections. It is the worst I’ve seen in the pacific by a long shot. I’ve been almost everywhere in the pacific so I got an idea for how expensive and slow it is to get online. …

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Majuro

I stated in one of my entries from Tonga that it was my first time on a coral atoll. That should be corrected. The main island of Tonga, Tongatapu, isn’t at true coral atoll. It is a raised atoll. It is flat like an atoll, but it is not the classic ring shaped one dimensional …

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