On my first trip to Tahiti, the flight from Honolulu arrived late at night and my first real look at that exotic island had to wait until the next morning....
Back around 1970, a fellow named George Wray had settled in American Samoa and founded South Pacific Island Airways. Initially, SPIA was one small single-engine plane that flew people back...
In my former life, I had occasion to travel to American Samoa and to the nearby independent nation of Samoa, then called Western Samoa. The islands that comprise both Samoas...