21 May 2013
This is the photo of Guam that Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield tweeted from the International Space Station on January 29, 2013. Click on the photo to embiggen.
Guam from space
View Commander Hadfield’s tweet here.
Pretty cool, huh?
13 May 2013
It’s been awhile. Life just gets busy, you know?
There might not always be time to update your website, but there is always time to go swimming with a sea turtle. This photograph of me swimming with a turtle was shot by my dear friend Burt Sardoma for Island Time Magazine.
Swimming with a Guam sea turtle
We took a boat out past Orote Point and snorkeled near the Navy wall. I’m not sure if that is its official name but everyone seems to just call it the Navy wall. I felt truly special when this sea turtle allowed me to swim with him. And although he swam close enough for me to touch him, I respected his personal space and didn’t. He even surfaced a couple of times to take a breath right in front of me. It was one of the most remarkable experiences I’ve ever had in the open ocean.
Some moments are just…magic.
27 Nov 2012
I went skydiving a few days ago and even though it was my third jump ever, I have to say it doesn’t get old.
Freefalling over Guam
It was a beautiful day.
Skydive Guam was really quick to upload the video. I did my jump in the late afternoon and it was on YouTube a few hours later. It’s a nice feature because it saves you the trouble of ripping the video from your DVD and uploading it yourself.
16 Nov 2012
I had a cartouche made of my name recently in Egypt and my friend Nash explains what the symbols mean.
15 Nov 2012
me and my camel shadow at the Great Pyramids of Giza
My driver didn’t speak any English and I know very little Arabic. Halfway through the quiet ride to the airport he makes a phone call, talks for a minute, and then reaches back and passes the phone to me. “Hello?” I ask tentatively. A woman speaks back to me. “Hello. I am Ahmed’s wife. He would like to say to you that you are welcome in Egypt and, God-willing, have a safe flight back to your country.”
12 Oct 2012
Two years ago I fell in love with Egypt and literally wept when I had to leave her.
I’ve been pining for her ever since, often imagining myself at the foot of Cheops, the largest of the great pyramids of Giza, my feet covered with the same dust that covered the feet of Ramses the II, the greatest pharaoh who ever lived.
I’m finally making my way back to my love and it’ll be almost exactly the same week that I was in Egypt two years ago. Can’t hardly wait.
After Egypt I’ll travel to Istanbul for the first time and I just know that I will love it. “But what about the bombs and terror in Turkey?” a friend asked. Well, then, Jordan is Plan B. I would so totally dig Petra and the Dead Sea.
It’s good to have a plan, it’s better when your plan is flexible.
11 Oct 2012
A couple of weeks ago my friend Alan Kao of the San Francisco-based band Seeking Empire came out to Guam for the weekend and brought with him Angelo Ibanez of AJAPOPFILMS, director of Seeking Empire’s music videos. SE’s video for “Caving In” was one of the selections for the 2nd Guam International Film Festival, and the boys were here for the GIFF weekend.
I say boys but with the blur of activity that we packed into those three days, they were more like supertyphoons. See for yourself in this fantastic video Angelo made of their short visit to Guam.
GUAM 2012 | AJAPOPFILMS from Angelo Ibañez | AJAPOPFILMS on Vimeo.
I miss those typhoons.
10 Oct 2012
Last week GVB hosted its 6th Annual Global Media Fam Tour and over 70 members of the press from 8 of Guam’s largest tourism source markets were on island to tour the sites, check out the Guam Micronesia Island fair and experience a fiesta. It was there at the Yona fiesta that I asked Konstantin, one of the visiting media reps from Russia, what he thought about Guam, the fiesta and, more importantly, Yona.
This wouldn’t be half as amusing if “Yona rules!” wasn’t such a thing. 
17 Sep 2012
I’m a ways away from executing the ideas I have for this but first things first: I bought http://dreambigtravelfar.com.
7 Sep 2012
“I have beer and a small cooler. Come get me and let’s catch the sunset.”
So glad Maya picked me up else we would have missed this moment.
Sometimes I just forget how gorgeous it is here.
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