Some 25 or so years ago, George Wray had a one-man law practice in Pago Pago, American Samoa. George was a pilot as well as a lawyer and often flew his own plane to meet with clients in Apia, the capital city of Western Samoa, an independent nation just a 30-minute flight away. George made…
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. I was staying at the Hotel Taharaa, which sits on top of a cliff and when I woke up and pulled open the curtains, the…
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 are about a five-hour flight south of Hawaii. Both are lovely and delightfully tropical. And both offer a seemingly endless number of cultural idiosyncrasies –…