June 27^th, 7am

Yesterday began out travels home.  Up early, and back to the airport-slash-post office to reunite with PMA pilot Amos.  Miles and Keenan and Austin meet us there, we hug and high-five and they give us the plumeria leis they made, white and cream and pink.  We exchange info.  “Come back next year!”

That night, back on Yap, Sam, Kelsey, Cole, and I stay late and the Mnuw.  An exuberant group offers us cake – they are there to watch the premier of House Hunters: Yap Edition.  Whoa!  It’s them.  A cultural anthropologist doing immersion in Yap.  Pretty neat.  The walk back to ESA is rainy and it feels great. 

In a couple hours, we will do a cultural tour of Yap.  I’m looking forward to exploring more if this island, which seems vast and jungled compared to the islands of the Ulithi Atoll.