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Onboard the Choo-Chuuk Plane

Onboard the Choo-Chuuk Plane

by Calvin Sun | Mar 3, 2024 | Blitzkrieg!!!, Crisis, Doctor in the House, March 2024: The Pacific Island Hopper, Micronesia, Way Way Off the Beaten Path

 Here we go! I finally get to experience the United Airlines famed Pacific island hopper in the other direction after taking a part of it 4 years ago.Probably the most burning question is where to sit:If you’re flying from GUM to HNL (eastwards), sit on the...
The Pacific Island Hopper: UA 133/155

The Pacific Island Hopper: UA 133/155

by Calvin Sun | Mar 3, 2024 | Crisis, Doctor in the House, March 2024: The Pacific Island Hopper, Micronesia, Way Way Off the Beaten Path

 Here we go! I finally get to experience the United Airlines famed Pacific island hopper in the other direction after taking a part of it 4 years ago.Probably the most burning question is where to sit:If you’re flying from GUM to HNL (eastwards), sit on the...
Can’t Stop Yappin’ About Yap Day

Can’t Stop Yappin’ About Yap Day

by Calvin Sun | Mar 2, 2024 | March 2024: The Pacific Island Hopper, Micronesia, Serendipitous!, Way Way Off the Beaten Path

  With Guam behind us, we flew on our midnight United Airlines flight 185 out to Yap of the Federated States of Micronesia, landing at around 1:30am in the morning.  Yap is one of the 4 states of Micronesia and the land of stone money (more on that...
Please Notice Me, Saipan!

Please Notice Me, Saipan!

by Calvin Sun | Feb 26, 2024 | Blitzkrieg!!!, Fail, Layovers, March 2024: The Pacific Island Hopper, Northern Mariana Islands, Way Way Off the Beaten Path

 From Palau, and having snuck in 4 hours of sleep from 8pm-midnight, we boarded the 2:05am United Airlines Flight #158 to Guam, landing at 5:10am underslept and miserable.  Since Guam is a U.S. territory, transiting in Guam work as if you were entering...
Palau Deck!

Palau Deck!

by Calvin Sun | Feb 25, 2024 | March 2024: The Pacific Island Hopper, Palau, Way Way Off the Beaten Path

  After 10 days in snowpowderalypse paradise, I returned from Niseko to CTS airport on an early morning shuttle bus to make my 2:10pm flight to Taiwan. Arriving in the evening, I met up with Stephanie Liu, a derm-pathologist doctor who found me on the...
Feelin’ Like A “Malabo”ratory Experiment

Feelin’ Like A “Malabo”ratory Experiment

by Calvin Sun | Jan 13, 2024 | Bioko Fernando Pó, Crisis, Equatorial Guinea, Serendipitous!, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, Winter 2023: The Gulf of Guinea

  Our marathon tour and last foray across West Africa ends in Malabo on the island of Bioko, the capital city of Equatorial Guinea. From Douala, we boarded a ET913 flight at 12:35pm, landing in Malabo at SSG airport after only 20 minutes in the air at 1:20pm in...
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