{"id":19,"date":"2014-05-30T10:49:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T15:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=19"},"modified":"2014-06-01T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T21:38:09","slug":"20140529-thursday-north-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"2014\/05\/29 — Thursday — North Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

We slept fairly well considering the second night is supposed to be the worst for jet lag.\u00a0 After going to bed about 10pm and a very short wake-up at 4:30am we slept until about 7am.<\/p>\n

Today, Paul and Kathy took us to the main city areas on Guam which are north of Santa Rita.\u00a0 Paul had some to pick up some paint for the site.<\/p>\n

On the way we drove up Nimitz hill and saw the AM transmitting site —\u00a0http:\/\/www.ktwg.com\/<\/a> — that TWR turned over to local ownership several years ago.\u00a0 We also saw the site of the major airplane crash — http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korean_Air_Flight_801 <\/a>— that took place several years ago on the airport side of the hill.\u00a0 TWR personnel helped support the rescue workers.<\/p>\n

\"Apra<\/a>

Apra Harbor from the Nimitz Hill Overlook<\/p><\/div>\n

\"120529<\/a> We visited another Spanish fort, Fort Santa Agueda, overlooking Agana.\"120529<\/a><\/p>\n

\"120529<\/a>We stopped at a park where we learned about some of the history of the latte stones of which replicas are seen almost everywhere on Guam — http:\/\/www.guamportal.com\/attraction \/senator_angel_leon_guerrero_santos_latte_stone_park.html<\/a><\/p>\n

\"120529<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Larry<\/a>

Larry and Virginia standing by latte stones<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Ypoa<\/a>

Ypoa Beach — the main tourist beach on Guam<\/p><\/div>\n

At another park beside Ypao beach, we learned about some of the boats that the natives built and used (see —\u00a0http:\/\/theguamguide.com\/ypao-beach-2\/). \u00a0 A talkative native, who was also a Vietnam vet, shared a lot of historical background.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>

A model (about half size) of the outrigger canoes that the Guam natives used to build<\/p><\/div>\n

We did some shopping at Kmart — there are no Walmarts on Guam — and were shown various places to shop to get the best deals on various items.\u00a0 Virtually all products that are sold in Guam have been imported, so the prices are quite high.\u00a0 It looks like all of the familiar restaurants and fast food places from the U.S. have branches here — mostly in the Agana area which is about 15 miles from where we will be staying.<\/p>\n

Stopped at a Wendy’s for a late lunch before heading back to Santa Rita.<\/p>\n

A Toyota Highlander was dropped up for us to use, so we drove it to Phil and April Leppke’s house on the other side of Guam for supper at their place.\u00a0 The road over the ‘mountains’ has lots of curves.\u00a0 Fortunately, it was daylight on the trip over.<\/p>\n

We returned home after dark. While parallel parking in front of the Gregowske’s house, the car shifted into reverse and would not come out of reverse, even though the gear shift lever could be moved to all the gear positions.<\/p>\n

We were so grateful that this did not happen while we were traveling or at the Leppke’s home!<\/p>\n

Into bed about 10pm and set the alarm for 6am.\u00a0 Larry plans to go to the transmitter site tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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We slept fairly well considering the second night is supposed to be the worst for jet lag.\u00a0 After going to bed about 10pm and a very short wake-up at 4:30am we slept until about 7am. Today, Paul and Kathy took us to the main city areas on Guam which are north of Santa Rita.\u00a0 Paul […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[14,13],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guam-2014","tag-14","tag-guam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}