Mind Wanderings and Various Other Bull

I've found a place on the earth that has time zone issues. No joke, but its the same time of day here in Samoa that it is in New Zealand - except that it's less one full day:

In Apia, Samoa:


In Wellington, NZ:


In other words, we're in the same time zone...but on opposite sides of the International Date Line.

So we found ourselves in a bit of a situation this morning. We were booked to fly from LAX to Auckland - via Apia, Samoa. When we got there, we went over to the lounge for in transit passengers, but we were refused.

"Sorry...you are on a different flight - you have to go through Immigration." was how the story went.

So off we go to Immigration.

"Sorry...you are in transit. You need to go to the lounge. You cant come into the country."

Hmm...this could get interesting. Mme Librarian is still whacked out on Xanax from the flight, and we are in No Man's Land. Eventually, they decided to let us into Samoa - and even gave us stamps in our passports that exempt us from the departure tax.

So, we are spending our 7 hours here in Samoa walking around and taking photos. I'll post them as soon as I get to a place where I can upload. Wow. It is really beautiful here - and everyone is quite friendly.