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Get Cultured in Guam
Neighborhoods of modest, single-story homes, painted in bright shades, family picnics in the park featuring Spam, fried chicken, beef brisket and sashimi (raw fish - a Japanese delicacy). A simple life, centered around family and friends. (Guam also has strip malls, mega-stores, glamorous duty free shops and fast food chains just like the mainland - I chose to ignore that part of the island!)
Every Wednesday in the capital, Hagatna, there is a "fiesta", aka "the night market". It's a combination of flea market, exotic smorgasbord and a tea dance. Stands offering Korean, Thai, Filipino and Chamorro foods, Mom and Pop cha-chaing in matching polyester shirts, kids learning to line dance, and the local teen hotties, who told me the best guys to dance with are the old men! They were right! My partner was an 80 something Pearl Harbor survivor - and he definitely had a few moves to teach me! If you know how to cha cha, or just like to shake your bootie, you will have a blast strutting your stuff with the locals at the Wednesday night fiesta!
See also: The Island of Guam
For more information on Guam:
www.magnificientmicronesia.com
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Guam is a funny mixture of a sultry Pacific Island, with a distinctly Asian flavor, that seems to have fallen off the time machine in 1960's America.
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