Docked in Naha, Okinawa: We’ve been here before, did the battlefield and local color tours then, and are staying aboard this time. Honestly, we’re still a little jet lagged.
We’re only here just over a half day, we leave around 2:30 pm for Taiwan, which we reach tomorrow. We’ve done Taiwan repeatedly too, so probably another stay-aboard day or maybe a stroll ashore in Keelung, the port for Taipei.
We’ve done so many cruises there aren’t a lot of new places to see. Some old sights are worth seeing again, most not so much.
The only new country we get this trip is the Philippines. You would think we’d have seen it while nearby on Guam in the mid-80s, and we did plan to do so. However the Philippines were experiencing unrest while we were on Guam so we didn’t go.
It was when Ferdinand Marcos was driven out. He and his entourage, plus Imelda, fled to the U.S. via Andersen AFB on Guam while we were there.
Spending the State Department’s money, they just about cleaned out the Andersen PX. The Marcos crowd acted like kids turned loose in a candy store. You should have heard the howls of outrage.
