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A Visit to Tahiti.

ByJim Loomis 10/23/202010/23/2020

I’ve never written much about Tahiti and that’s really an oversight because I’ve been there five or six times and enjoyed it very much. Tahiti is the main island of French Polynesia and is the location of the capitol city, Papeete (pa-pa-EH-tay). Tahitian is the main language, with French also almost universally spoken. I made…

Stranded in Tahiti!

ByJim Loomis 01/17/201411/07/2014

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 and forth between American Samoa and the neighboring island nation of Western Samoa (now called simply Samoa). Then George took the plunge and went into…