My second day of travel to Palau takes me to Guam. A tiny island in the middle of the North Atlantic through which most flights to places in the North Pacific seem to go. It was a strange, strange experience, as I had to go through U.S. immigration (always a bundle of laughs), only to find myself emerging from the arrivals onto a hot and rainy tropical island! I didn't know what to expect but it definitely did not feel like I was in the U.S. Nonetheless, what I got was a little slice of America, with the massive roads, MacDonalds, K-Mart, Hotels, Casinos, Strip bars and lots and lots of Japanese tourists. It soon became clear that Guam is a major tourist destination for the Japanese. We tried to get rooms in 4 different hotels
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