Tour & Hike

This afternoon we (Cheryl, our daughter Betsy who is on Guam visiting for two weeks, and I) went with Jens and Karin Schulz (Liebenzell Germany missionaries and fellow PIBC staff) for a tour of the Chilean ship B.E. Esmeralda, which is docked at Big Navy. It's a beautiful vessel with a shady past, having been used as a torture ship during the Pinochet regime in the 70's and 80's. Now the sailing ship is used as a training vessel for the Armada de Chile and a traveling embassy for Chile.

Cheryl was wearing her "Yo (heart) Chile" shirt which Kent gave her upon his return from a semester in Chile and which attracted the attention of the crew.

After the tour we did the half-hour hike up Mt Lam Lam -- which is the tallest mountain in the world -- if you measure starting at the bottom of the Marianas Trench off the side of Guam -- and which, of course, is not how mountains are normally measured. But don't tell the locals, many of whom take the tallest mountain claim very seriously.

The locals also argue over what is actually Mt Lam Lam. In popular usage it referrers to the point we visited where there are several crosses. But that point is also called Mt Jumullong Manglo. Apparently the actual high point of Mt Lam Lam sits a mile away. Whatever! It was a beautiful view.