In our current issue, author Michael H. Kew reports from Micronesia while flying a historic airline route from Hawaii to Guam: “All six stops compose the remote steamy guts of UA154—the Island Hopper, a uniquely critical route, a lifeline for locals and tourists heading to and fro, for military and teachers and doctors and scientists and politicians and foreign and local businesses, bucket-listed for aviation geeks. A bit of surf along the way, too.”
Enjoy video footage from his voyage, and pick up TSJ 35.2 for the full travelogue, “Island Hopper: Honolulu to Hagåtña aboard UA154.”
Film by Michael H. Kew.


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