Based on that list, I put the destinations into the google maps machine and\u2026 presto!\u00a0 Today\u2019s itinerary plotted!<\/p>\n
I began the road trip \u2018round by heading for Two Lover\u2019s (Lovers\u2019?) Point.\u00a0 This is the legendary spot where two star-crossed lovers were cornered by both their own Chamorro people and the Spanish Army led by the girl\u2019s arranged marriage fianc\u00e9.\u00a0 Choosing eternal love as opposed to mortal separation, our tragic heroes intertwined their hair (no, really… the legend says they braided each other’s hair together) and leapt off the cliff as one, death by loving suicide.\u00a0 If you believe that sort of thing.\u00a0 Anyway, it was a whole thing and eventually somebody commemorated the story with a large bronze statue.<\/p>\n But in 2002, strong winds or a tsunami or something toppled the couple.\u00a0 The statue was deemed too mangled and too far gone to salvage so it was sold for scrap.\u00a0 No lovers then at Two Lovers Point.\u00a0 Cut to 12 years later when a woman moved to the island and fell in love with a native.\u00a0 She heard the story of the statue and asked him to help her track down the statue to see if she might be able to save it\u2026 and it turns out her beloved was the guy who bought the thing for scrap but couldn\u2019t bring himself to melt it down.\u00a0 The statue has returned and honestly I much preferred the Part 2 story to Part 1.\u00a0 But then I\u2019ve always been a sucker for a romantic comedy.<\/p>\n The lookout also offers some pretty spectacular views of the island… and offers lovers the chance to prove their love with a $6 lock on SOME (but not all) railings.\u00a0 I saw something similar in Paris and my then-girlfriend and I were tempted to add a lock… only to discover this was a very recent “tradition” that was causing various bridges around town to buckle under the added permanent weight of thousands and thousands of locks.\u00a0 I sometimes wonder though if we’d still be together if I had spent the euros back then.<\/p>\n Wandering the place alone, I tried to fake a shot of a lover embrace\u2026 I kept messing up the angle and it was a fiasco.\u00a0 I got some weird looks from people too but ya know what?\u00a0 I\u2019m never going to see these people again\u2026 so I just kept shooting.\u00a0 I never quite got it but maybe the unrequited love pose is all too befitting for the location, for the story, and for me in general.<\/p>\n Hilariously awkward or just straight up awkward?\u00a0 I’m leaning toward the latter.<\/p>\n The single lover feels like something I\u2019ve seen in detective movies when our gumshoe has to pretend he or she is NOT following somebody and ducks into a corner as if stealing a romantic moment.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure I have seen it somewhere but I think the first time I ever saw the single lover charade was courtesy of the mid-80s game show \u201cBody Language.\u201d\u00a0 Celebrities were paired with normal every day folk and given clue words they had to act out via charades.\u00a0 The clues filled in a mad lib style puzzle and you had to solve the riddle to win fabulous prizes.\u00a0 On one episode, It\u2019s Your Move<\/em> star Jason Bateman was given the clue \u201cmaking out\u201d and he immediately went into the solo lover pantomime.\u00a0 Decades before he starred in the big screen \u201cGame Night,\u201d Bateman proved himself a star player.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n I circled the perimeter of the island in a clockwise manner, coming to what I thought was the Tolofofo Beach.\u00a0 This is supposed to be one of the few places on earth that has green sand.\u00a0 It has something to do with the lava content and various other geological whatzits.\u00a0 I was never very good at science.\u00a0 Anyhoo, I was excited to see the green sand and imagined it as otherworldly and the color of unripe bananas\u2026 or Kentucky bluegrass which I know isn\u2019t blue and is grass rather than sand but you get what I\u2019m saying\u2026.<\/p>\n I was disappointed that it wasn\u2019t greener.\u00a0 It just looked like wet sand to me more than anything else. But it was a different color to be sure.<\/p>\n Is this in fact a green sand beach?\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 I haven’t ever bothered to pay a fact checker before so why start now?<\/p>\n Getting back into my car and driving on, I thought, \u201cMaybe the sand is always greener on the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n I kept seeing signs for this place along the highway and I suppose it\u2019s akin to South of the Border or Wall Drug back on the mainland.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a restaurant-cum-resort-cum-tourist trap.\u00a0 I was underwhelmed.\u00a0 But I was intrigued that they had a metal sign promising a Lent Menu.\u00a0 Maybe the Spanish Missionaries who helped colonize this place have had a lasting impact.\u00a0 Religious colonialism makes me sad.\u00a0 I didn’t stay long… just long enough to snap a selfie.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 Hypocritical is VERY 2018.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Though not on my list, I opted for a detour to Talofofo Falls.\u00a0 It was twelve bucks to get in and for a while as no one was around to work the cable car down to the falls, I thought I\u2019d been ripped off.\u00a0 Only later did I realize I was ripped off in the weirdest, strangest, and yet oddly\u2026 compelling way.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what was included with the price of admission.\u00a0 To be honest, I\u2019ve seen much better park guides\u2026<\/p>\n Like the one in Japanese that was pretty slick\u2026 and glossy!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Mondays-Plan-for-Guam.png\")
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