A few weeks back the family took a short trip out of the Japan – the first in over three years – we made it to the Micronesian Island of Guam, and since WWII a stronghold of the US military.
It was good to get away for a few days away from Japan and to enjoy some sun, ocean and outside life. We managed to spend quite a lot of the few days there in the hotel pool/water park area – even through a huge downpour that lasted about 1/2 an hour. It was hard to drag Rina out of the pool and she even managed to get in a few quick swims at night.
It was a bit surreal and almost like twighlight zone – English signs and language everywhere, cars moving on the “wrong” side of the road, cold green tea in bottles with sugar, all the food in super sizes, walking down a shopping isle with thousands of choices of breakfast cereal. Those a just a few things for starters.
All in all it is an island with an interesting history and one with a kind of notoriety in Japan for the Japanese solider, Shoichi Yokoi, who lived on a small hand made cave on the island for about 28 years after the war. I don’t know how he did it as the mosquitoes are the worst that I have ever encountered – I managed to swat 6 in one go.