Micronesia contrasts: Guam's 'Glitter gulch & Pohnpei's 'no-service' atoll

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Scattered across nearly 3 million square miles of western Pacific, Micronesia is made up of four main archipelagos, of which the Marianas are home to its largest island (212 square miles), Guam, and the Caroline Islands include the volcanic isle of Pohnpei, about 60 miles around. I found them to be quite a contrast. Guam is a U.S. territory, but doesn’t feel particularly American, probably because of its Japanese and Asian tourism, not to mention not to mention its own homegrown Chamorros and immigrant Filipinos and others. Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia is the exact opposite of Guam, because… keep reading