{"id":23917,"date":"2018-04-10T02:22:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T06:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=23917"},"modified":"2018-04-10T02:29:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T06:29:34","slug":"a-google-map-of-guam-is-as-useful-as-one-that-says-here-there-be-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=23917","title":{"rendered":"A Google Map of Guam Is As Useful As One That Says “Here There Be Dragons”"},"content":{"rendered":"

My vaulted ceiling window in the Guam Business Motel looks out directly onto the road.\u00a0 It’s not a super busy road (is there such a thing in Guam?).\u00a0 But I can hear traffic whizzing past at all hours of the night.\u00a0 And whether they’re wild or domesticated (there IS a KFC not too far from me), there’s a raft of roosters that crow as the dawn’s early light gathers itself.\u00a0 Having tossed and turned in a jetlagged and general off-kilter haze, I decided to get up and go for a run.\u00a0 I had hoped to avoid the heat of the day by starting with the roosters.<\/p>\n

The best laid plans.<\/p>\n

It was a slow, hot, humid run… even if it was ten or twenty degrees cooler than it would be later in the day.\u00a0 I struggled.\u00a0 A lot.\u00a0 More of the same.\u00a0 But I did manage to snap a few photos along the route — I’ve been meaning to document that every gas station on the island charges the same amount — $4.229 for a gallon.\u00a0 Doesn’t matter which company, where you are on the island, or cash or credit.\u00a0 There isn’t a penny’s variation… and in some cases, the pithy sayings posted on their boards are uniform.<\/p>\n

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The 76 stations across the island yesterday for example all proclaimed “A well read woman is a dangerous creature.”\u00a0 Today there was one for the guys…<\/p>\n

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Huffing and puffing along, I passed a couple of schools — JFK High had a mural saying “Ask Not What Your Island Can Do For You….”\u00a0 But I was much more taken with THIS school’s sign:<\/p>\n

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The busy bees is a terrible team mascot.\u00a0 And how in the name of Steven Spielberg aren’t they the Chief Brodie Sharks?\u00a0 I mean, come on!<\/p>\n

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So this is a map of what one could do to go all the way around Guam on a road trip:<\/p>\n

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I’ve already done some of those places so I decided to rethink my plan via a hastily scribbled itinerary on yet another local eatery’s serviette.<\/p>\n

My plan was to hit:<\/p>\n