Where America's Day Begins
I grew up on the island of Guam. Lots of people know that. Lots of people don't. We moved there towards the end of elementary school, and I graduated high school from Guam High School (because...what else would it be called?). I left Guam in August of 2004 to go to college, and the last time I was there was Christmas 2004 of my freshman year. The following summer, 2005, my parents moved back to their home state of Arizona to be closer to their aging parents. And I never went back. Not for a lack of wanting to, though. Do you know where Guam is? It's basically out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, almost directly south of Japan and directly north of Australia. It's a 7 hour flight to Hawaii. A 4 hour flight to Japan. So it's not close to anything other than islands even smaller than it is (which is only about 30 miles long and 8 miles wide). It's "remote" to say the least. As you can imagine, getting there is not o...