This weekend we finally made it to the National Park of American Samoa!
During orientation we visited the visitor’s center for the National Park which is located downtown. After living next to Acadia National Park (on an island off the coast of Maine) for years, I was super excited to visit the only National Park south of the equator, and I was so disappointed to hear that we would only be checking out the visitor’s center during orientation. When I asked why, the answer was that we could explore the actual park on our own. While that’s true, it isn’t the easiest of parks to visit without a car, but we were lucky and had two friends who had already been there show me the way. That’s kind of the only way to do things around here. This is truly not an island for tourists.
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