Has anyone here ever been to Guam?

[underpants]

What's it like?
I seriously have no clue.

[leftstreet]

1. Two temperatures: Humid or More Humid

Pretty beaches and hills, but not an easy climate to get used to for long periods

[UTUSN]

2. Yes, 1968 for 6 weeks. My Navy ship was in dry dock there. Few memories.

We never left the base/shipyard. At least I didn't. Few memories, weather seemed unremarkable. We lived in barracks, drank at the base club. One evening getting to the barracks, the radio on the public address system said RFK was dead. I threw up in the bushes.

[Auggie]

3. I hear it is home to some of the best snorkeling on Earth

[The Polack MSgt]

4. Great beaches.

Hot and muggy as you should ecpect on a tropical island.

Most of the population is clustered around the Navy and Air Force bases.

[roamer65]

5. Flight layover on my way to Chuuk, FSM for a diving trip.

I dove the remains of the Japanese Merchant Marine fleet sunk in Operation Hailstone in 1944.

Nice clear water, about 85 deg F. Amazing wrecks.

[RockaFowler]

6. My niece lives there

She tells me it's beautiful

[AngryAmish]

7. Didn't it tip over a few years back?

[VermontKevin]

13. In Rep. Johnson's defense, Hep C is a horrible disease and he is now doing better.

Still, it was a funny moment.

[hlthe2b]

8. Yup... and I had access to Anderson Air Force Base as well as the WWII downed plane debris that

remains to this day in the adjacent (restricted) private beaches--great snorkeling. If you are into WWII history (as well as the early Spanish conquest of Guam), there is a lot to delve into.

Guam itself is interesting--obviously tropical with nice public beaches as well and cosmopolitan areas... If it weren't for the plague of venomous brown tree snakes that have devastated the natural bird population and caused frequent brown outs when they short out electrical systems, Guam might have been able to rival Hawaii for tourism.

[LibArts]

9. 1972

Hot and noisy as hell. The noise was military jets and MAC flights arriving and leaving.

I could describe it in far more picturesque terms but thats the basics. I was USN on overnight layover enroute to Luzon.

[Barack_America]

11. Welcome.

Great to have you here.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

10. At the time I went there (1973 or so), it had the world's biggest McDonald's.

Also great beaches.

We were there to pick up refugees from Vietnam and transport them to the U.S. We'd have a hundred passengers. Everything they owned could be loaded on a 15x15 foot pallet.

[hunter]

12. I have an in-law born and raised there, Navy Brat.

As a teen she thought Honolulu was The Big City, a place to temporarily escape parental supervision in ways not possible in small town Guam.

When her dad landed in California and she got her first car she went a little wild.

[VermontKevin]

14. In the military. Beautiful place.

[Skidmore]

15. No, but I have a good friend there

who is not military. Grew up there , as did her husband. They have three little ones between 5 and 9 years of age. She is so frightened and we are frightened for them.