A trip to the Airport

I decided to walk to the airport today, for no apparent reason... Here is a view of the road down the north side of the island from the top of the hill

On the way I discovered a number of butterflies having problems-- usually I couldn't get within photo-shot of them, but today, they were resting on the road...

Or being eaten by ants...

The other side of the view from the top of the hill is the village, the casino, and the south sea

When I arrived at the airport I found a small group of new 'ports authority' recruits going through drills... standing at attention,

marching in step,

and doing physical exercises. To meet the standard, they have to do #40 sit-ups... the young man here actually make the grade, and did his fourty-- though his last few were tough! Not that I can say anything...I would be lucky to do 10...

There is not a place on the islands that don't have some vestige of the war to remind us of the sacrifices that were made by the WWII generation!

The airport has its own water tank

A beautiful garden found next to Tinian Ice
The new road is slowly forming. They scraped the old road and installed an environmental run-off barrier along the road.

A view of Saipan from the north side of Tinian

Here is the old airport building, used for both arrivals and departures

Here is the new airport terminal that will be used for departures (the old building will be used for arrivals). What are they waiting for? It seems that someone 'forgot' to figure in the cost of installing a sewer system, and the installation of electricity...hmmmm....