Aloha State of Mind

I don’t know why, but I expected, after all the foreign ports we had approached by sea, that Hilo would look different….I guess more ‘merican (which, according to the urban dictionary, is a word that means “American”, but doesn’t require you to put your burger and fries down to use the shift button in order to…

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Samoan Homecoming

Arriving at Pago Pago felt a bit like an early homecoming, as it is the capital city of American Samoa, a territory of the US since 1900. English is spoken along with native Samoan, and the local currency is the good ole’ US dollar. The territory is made up of five volcanic islands totaling 76…

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