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Day 70: From small-town Nebraska to a dot in the Pacific

By: Vanessa Wamsley October 9, 2018

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From small town Nebraska, to a dot in the Pacific, we’re welcoming my parents to Kwajalein this week.

Day 1: Island bound, in search of a big life

By: Vanessa Wamsley August 3, 2018August 16, 2018

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We had been looking at photos of Kwajalein Atoll for six months, so when the airplane approached the runway, I recognized the features my family and I had been zooming in with Google Earth to see: the characteristic U-shape of the island, the square tide pools dug by the Japanese in World War II, dome homes, coconut palm trees.