Left our home in Elkhart this morning by 7am to catch a 9:21am flight to Chicago. We supposedly could of caught a later flight, but decided a 50 minute layover in Chicago was just not long enough!

Our next flight to Tokyo flew over Alaska, where we saw many beautiful snow covered mountainranges with glaciers. We arrived in Tokyo slightly ahead of schedule, so the 50 minute layover there was more than adequate to to make the Guam flight.

Our time in Japan was limited to a 50 minute layover at the Narita Airport

As we landed at Tokyo, we noticed hundreds of rice paddies and solar panels. This photo was taken of rice paddies as we took off just before sunset, so is not as clear as we would have liked,

Our Guam flight pulled away from the gate on schedule, then we waited in a long line of planes for about 20 minutes for take off. All of a sudden our plane turned out of line onto a parallel taxiway headed the opposite direction and stopped. My initial thoughts were, “Must be a mechanical problem”, but, after about 5 minutes, the pilot announced that we were being directed to another runway and had to wait for the right ‘paperwork’. 45 minutes after leaving the gate, we were finally airborne.

About an hour into the flight to Guam, we finally saw the sunset. The sunrise of our day had been about 24 hours earlier in Elkhart and we had flown in daylight the whole time. We arrived safely on Guam only about 20 minutes late. Many of the TWR Guam missionaries we there to met us.

We arrived very tired after almost 30 hours with little sleep. Guam is definitely warm and humid and the temperature was about 86F at 10pm.

We are staying with Paul and Kathy Gregowske for a few days until a small apartment becomes available for us. Fortunately there are small air conditioners in the bedrooms. The rest of the house has ceiling fans.

Guam time is 14 hours ahead of EDT so when it is noon in Elkhart (10am MDT), it is 2am the next day in Guam. It might be difficult to find a time to communicate via Skype at a convenient hour at both ends, but we will try to work something out!