Well here we are at the Calgary airport waiting for our flight to LAX which takes off at 7:35 am. From there it will be a 13 hr 50 minute flight to Shanghai, China. It was an interesting night at the hotel. Bob went to climb into bed only to discover that the entire bed was wet....yuck! Room change occurred and the new bed was wonderful. Hope all our beds on this trip will be as nice but that will be unlikely.
The Wrecks of Truk
It is now 0400 hrs on Feb 5 in the Singapore Airport and we are waiting for our next leg to Sydney Australia. Travel Hint: Avoid Manila airport if you can! It is very busy and once inside the Departure terminal there is no place to get food or drink. We found a place to sit and we sat there for almost 12 hours! Now stepping back a bit to Chuuk Lagoon. The area was controlled by different nations over the years. When Germany had the area pre WW1 they could not pronounce the "chook" sound so they started calling it "truck" lagoon and the name stuck until after WW2 when the territory became under the control of the US. During WW2 the Japanese used the lagoon anchorage for their South Pacific combined fleet. They had built a submarine base and a seaplane base, which incidently, is where we stayed at; the Blue Lagoon Resort. You can still see some old concrete structures on the beach and grounds. From this safe anchorage, the Japanese were able to control most of
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