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Fa’a Samoa … the Samoan Way.

ByJim Loomis 09/09/201609/09/2016

There are only a few hotels in Pago Pago, the capital city of American Samoa. The on-line travel agencies such as booking.com and expedia.com list only three. One, now called Sadie’s by the Sea, was once The Rainmaker Hotel. In its day, it was a first rate 200-room property. The last time I…

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First Things First in Samoa.

ByJim Loomis 08/26/201608/26/2016

American Samoa is about a five-hour flight by jet almost due south from Hawaii. It is, in any number of ways, a unique place. Tropical, quite beautiful, and with a unique and fascinating culture. Samoa itself is about as “laid back” as it’s possible to be and, in fact, that’s really an inadequate description…