Oct 132011
 

For as long as I can remember, ever since I started traveling I had wanted to take this flight.  I started planning the Round the World Trip nearly a year in advance, and everything revolved around this flight.  The Island Hopper is a flight from Honolulu to Guam which makes four to five stops (depending on the day of the week) along the way.  As much as I would have liked to stop, I just wanted to take the flight and see what it was like!

We dropped our rental car off bright and early, checked in with no problem.  The agent was, however, completely confused why we were on the four stop flight to Guam instead of the nonstop.  She decided it was “for miles or something” and let us go.  Nothing else exciting, and soon we were in a gate holding area full of quite unusual people for the flight to Majuro, Marshall Islands.

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Oct 122011
 

Since this was our third trip to Hawaii this year, initially we hadn’t planned to spend more than a day here.  After all, the idea was to come here so we could catch the Continental Island Hopper flight to Guam.  However, since the flight only goes three days a week, combined with the fact we could only find availability on one day, we decided to relax here a few days and enjoy the birthday sun!

We managed to get up relatively early considering the great dinner the night before, and get in the car and head towards the North Shore.  The main goal was to test out the new underwater casing for the camera so it was ready for Palau in a few days.  Halfway there it started top pour, so we had to pull over and put up the roof on the the convertible for the rest of the drive – no fun!

Got to the North Shore, and stopped at Cholo’s for some Nachos and Margaritas for lunch – can’t really go wrong with that, right?    First stop after lunch was at Turtle Beach, where it was the perfect time to see the green turtles playing in the waves and coming ashore.  This was my third time here this year, and the first time we saw so many turtles.  There were at least two dozen of them!

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