stubsadventures

Guam caught me off guard. I intended to use the few days to unwind and relax after all the diving. I hadn’t really looked into what there was to do there but I had arranged for a guide to take me around for a day to show me some stuff off the beaten paths.

The history that surrounds you in Guam is almost overwhelming. This tiny island has a very violent history but some of the nicest people you will ever meet. The signs and reminders of WWII are everywhere. You can’t ignore what happened on this island because it’s all around you, all the time.

I stayed at Hotel Santa Fe and loved it. It was a big older but much smaller than most of the other hotels in the area. In the morning, I went down and had breakfast next to the ocean. When I was all done and just drinking some coffee, the lady at the table next to me asked me if I was also a solo traveller. When I told her I was, she joined me immediately. She was 90, and never told me her name. We had the most amazing conversations over the span of about an hour. She ordered fruit and insisted that I share it with her. She was at the end of a four month travelling stint and right before Guam, she had been in Cambodia for three weeks. Remember, she is 90. She had me in stitches laughing more than once and we both talked about how we need things like Facebook when we’re travelling so our families wouldn’t worry about us so much. That was a cool moment. When I asked her if she ever got nervous travelling alone, she simple said, “Dear, people don’t want to rape me. They want to rape you but not me.” I almost spit coffee everywhere. When I told her about this blog, she said that she could never have a blog because she would have to censor it too much. Of course I had to ask her what could be so awesome in her life that she wouldn’t want the world to know about, which was when she let me in on the secret of her “much younger” 75-year-old boyfriend. She actually blushed when she talked about him. Then, she had to rush off to Facebook message him.

My first afternoon was spent at Bali Spa. That place is a little slice of heaven. I spent 5 hours in the spa getting everything from a massage, to a scrub to a scalp treatment and everything in between. I literally felt melty when I left.

Part Two to follow..

Stubs.