Arrived in Guam at about 2.30 am. It must be a cheap flight as I can't see any other reason why someone would want to take a flight that arrives at

As I was walking through the airport, I spotted my bag on the luggage conveyor so picked it up. Lucky I saw it as the Delhi girl had told me it had been checked all the way through. I guess not!

Went through their immigration fine & just had to fill out an extra Guam visa application & then I checked my bag back in again (fortunately, they didn't make me wait until 3 hours before) & went to the lounge for some food & rest.

Not a lot available at that time of the morning but I was hungry since I'd only had 2 meals the day before so I had a few snacks.

I found a quiet corner of the mostly uninhabited lounge, pulled a couple of chairs together to make a bed, popped my headphones & eye mask on, then lay down to rest.

Shortly thereafter, the lounge staff decided that they needed to clean up all the plates etc there were there so they came around banging & clanging, singing and yelling at each other. Thanks guys ... just trying to sleep over here!

Eventually, I fell asleep and had a few hours of extra sleep, waking up at about 7 am.

Had some more food, brushed my teeth, then went off to the next flight.

I was one of the last people to go through the boarding gate but it didn't matter anyway, as we all had to wait on the ramp for quite a while as everyone had brought big hand-luggage bags & they'd run out of room for them all so were trying to find people who wouldn't mind putting their bag into checked luggage.

The flight from Guam to Majuro is a bit of a milk-run. Each hop is about 1 hr and then we have about 45 min break at each airport along the way.

I was feeling pretty tired & think I slept for at least some of the first leg from Guam to Chuuk.

The remaining legs were pretty uneventful. Each one was roughly an hour, with a 45 min wait at each airport. You could de-plane but what's the point really. The airports are tiny so there's not much to see or do at any of them.

Finally made it to Majuro, Marshall Islands and fortunately, the hotel bus was there to pick me up.

Luckily, my bag made it all the way from Delhi to Majuro as well ... although the airport guy couldn't find it at first. I had to ask him where it was & then he went back to search for it ... and fortunately, he found it!

About a 20 min ride from the airport to the hotel at about 25 km/hr. Not much happens very fast in the islands!

Arrived at the hotel only to find that there's no WiFi, which I need since I don't actually know where the course is being held tomorrow. The girl on the front desk was pretty unhelpful, "Yeah, there's no WiFi until tomorrow. You can get a local SIM ... but we don't sell them. Sorry" Yeah thanks girlie! I found some WiFi on the island that I could purchase (USD10/500MB!) so bought that so I could at least message Sherry & let her know I'd landed plus contact Deepak to figure out where I'm supposed to be tomorrow.

The hotel is called the "Marshall Islands Resort" ... and that's a huge bit of over-marketing. This is more like a 2-star hotel than a resort. You can't drink the water from the tap as too many locals tap into the pipe illegally before it gets to the hotel, there's no hot water in the sink taps (only in the shower), and there's a giant concrete wall at the front of the hotel where they're constructing a new seawall. The restaurant is also more like a highway diner but is one of the best in town, apparently! Crappy food isn't that unusual for the islands, however, which explains why they're all so huge!