Psst… Hey buddy. Need a used car?

Part four (or is it part five? I can’t remember any longer) of our trip to Pohnpei last July (yep. Still haven’t gotten to the surf trip in October) finds us driving around the island in our rental car. Strangely, all the cars here are from Asian countries so they are right-hand drive cars, but […]

Some flowers in the sun, after a rain

Okay, we still haven’t made it to posting about our surf trip to Pohnpei in October. This will be the fourth installment of our week-long trip to Pohnpei back in July. Yeah, I know. I have been terrible about keeping up, but there was a lot of pretty cool stuff in Pohnpei. We took a […]

Nerds in front of waterfalls.

Number three in the continuing Pohnpei saga is about a couple of nerds who visit waterfalls (shoot, we still aren’t caught up to our most recent surf trip). One nerd does it with some kind of weird waterfall FOMO (fear of missing out) bordering on a squirrel-on-crack-obsessiveness. The other nerd? Well, that one tags along […]

A Walk Around Nan Madol

In the spirit of keeping up with our travels in a timely manner, I mentioned in the last post that we were on Pohnpei for some surfing. This is not that post. Instead, it is a post about a trip we took there in July, to hike, visit a million waterfalls, and visit the ruins […]

Here Be Dragons…

I have always loved the saying – the legend on maps – from the Middle Ages and the time of oceanic exploration that says, “here be dragons”. It was such a great description of those places marked on maps, yet to be discovered, where people had not yet traveled, or had not explored fully enough […]

Ye Olde Patches McGee

It’s been a little bit! I have been terrible at keeping up lately. For reasons I am not able to go into (for reasons I am not able to go into), I have been kind of buried in my own misery of working too much and sorely missing my status as a curmudgeonly old retired […]

Just a typical day on Kwaj

What do we do on any given day here on this little island? Mostly we work. Which is a lot tougher than I thought it would be after retiring and traveling for the last couple of years. But, it is all made up for in a moment when we remember that we get to live […]

A Very Ebeye Christmas

Another Christmas was coming around, and Scrooge and Scroogette were wondering what to do to shore up their sagging holiday spirit (actually, they were trying to find a quiet place to hide), so they went to the neighboring island of Ebeye for something a bit different. Kwajalein (where we live) is a tiny island itself […]

What a strange little place.

Well, I have been here three weeks. I definitely have a bunch of thoughts about life here on Kwajalein. First, let me just say that I will not put a bunch of pictures in here until I go through all the rules with someone high up in the garrison, because I don’t want to get […]

Well, It Looks Like It’s Happening…

Back in April (we were still living in Thailand at the time), Tam and I found some more information about the Marshall Islands. We knew people that went over there regularly while we were living in Hawaii, and they always came back raving about this secret mysto-amazing place with friendly people, relatively intact culture, warm […]