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<\/a> <\/p>\n This is not a good omen for the races ahead.\u00a0 This is not a good pace for my Apollo 11 goal of a sub-3 hour marathon at the end of May.<\/p>\n On the plus side, I did snap a photo of that JFK mural outside JFK High… which was established in 1959.\u00a0 I was confused until I saw a plaque saying it was renamed in 1966.\u00a0 I thought maybe Guam really was that far ahead of the rest of America, predicting JFK’s election a year in advance.<\/p>\n It was hot and humid and I walked a lot… as the times above indicate.\u00a0 I did stop for a shot at one of my favorite street names here in Guam.\u00a0 I appreciate naming roads after local people, honoring them for some reason or other, and the idea of including one’s title is fair enough.\u00a0 I could see a President or a Governor.\u00a0 But seeing “Attorney” as a prefix just kinda made me laugh.\u00a0 I can’t tell if the guy was insistent on always being introduced that way, “That’s *MISTER ATTORNEY* Alberto Lamorena to you, bucko.”<\/p>\n It’s clearly time for me to head home though.\u00a0 They pulled down the giant Guam Marathon banner at the PIC host hotel.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n I was in a conundrum.\u00a0 I found myself wondering if I would regret not going to the Fish Eye Marina Park.\u00a0 Spite is a terrible reason to not do something.\u00a0 But was it spite?\u00a0 Or was I insulted?\u00a0 As I mentioned yesterday, I felt like maybe I was cutting off my nose to spite my face, a phrase intriguingly I first heard from MY attorney-at-law.\u00a0 I thought about going and just paying my $14.\u00a0 But it was fourteen bucks.\u00a0 For some reason that number really stuck in my craw…fish.\u00a0 Had it been ten bucks I probably wouldn’t have even had second thoughts.\u00a0 But there are inevitably lines in the proverbial sand, price points at which the cost-value curve hits a negative slope.\u00a0 And for me, a giant fish observatory in Guam, that price point was $4 over my maximum.<\/p>\n It looks cool on the website<\/a> but…<\/p>\n And so while trying to get some details from the infuriatingly spotty WIFI here at the Guam Business Motel, I came across some more information about Pagat Point.<\/p>\n You’ll recall yesterday I questioned Google Maps having me “arrive” in the middle of a road and expecting me to pull off to the side of the road and bushwhack through the jungle.\u00a0 Turns out that’s EXACTLY what you’re supposed to do.<\/p>\n Here’s a screengrab of somebody else’s post about it:<\/p>\n I decided that I would do it.\u00a0 I wasn’t so sure about the cave or the cliff diving but the short hike sounded worth doing to get the view.\u00a0 I searched a few other postings and while you could pay for a tour guide to take you, I had a rental car that hadn’t seen a lot of action and a sense of adventure, so… I followed the advice of another traveler who said the sign was kinda hidden by foliage but hopefully there’d be other cars parked there to help “mark” the spot.<\/p>\n Figuring I’d pack a lunch to take with me on the hike, I tried once again to visit Chesa Guam — redemption number 1!\u00a0 They were open!\u00a0 I got a wrap, though the woman told me not to let it overheat if I was going for a hike and to eat it BEFOREHAND so the coconut milk wouldn’t turn.\u00a0 Coconut milk?\u00a0 ARGH!<\/p>\n For the record, I survived.\u00a0 And the chicken kalugen filling was definitely filling.\u00a0 It was pretty tasty.<\/p>\n Back on the highway, it took a few circuits of the road before I finally spotted a tour van seemingly abandoned along the side of the road.\u00a0 It had a sign on it that said, “Not locked; No Money Inside.”\u00a0 I guess thieves are prone to smash and grab stuff out of cars here at the Point.\u00a0 Swell.<\/p>\n Here is the decidedly obscured sign marking the trailhead:<\/p>\n Yeah, I definitely didn’t see that yesterday.<\/p>\n The “short hike” was billed as a mile with a caveat that it got pretty tricky around the limestone rock descent (and even more on the ascent back up). But whatever.\u00a0 I’ve run Leadville.\u00a0 I’ve hiked to the Hollywood Sign.\u00a0 I ran through the African savannah and slogged through the Antarctica gravel.\u00a0 I could handle this.<\/p>\n Turns out I’m not sure about that.\u00a0 I’m really not cut out for this at all.<\/p>\n I lost “the trail” once or twice going down… sometimes it LOOKED like a staircase of rocks or that the trail forked and I opted for the road MORE traveled… only to discover I chose wrong.\u00a0 Had I had my lucky double-sided coin, I’m sure I would’ve been right EVERY time.<\/p>\n My sense of direction proving once again impeccably poor, I got turned around… but after rappelling down an incline (I was NOT looking forward to going back up that way)…<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n