Coming of Age in Samoa

Friday February 10. We arrived in Pago Pago early in the morning. It is a spectacular harbor. Ever since I was young and read the Margaret Mead book about Samoa, I have longed to visit here.
It is a beautiful island with genuinely warm and friendly people The Samoan island chain lies in the center of the South Pacific about 2300 miles southwest from Honolulu. Since 1899 it has been divided into Western and Eastern or American Samoa. The islands comprise the only American territories in the southern hemisphere.
We took a native local bus around the island, went to a local village, where we tasted the Samoan food. There staple food is bread fruit which is starchy like a potato and they eat coconut and drink coconut milk. This probably explains why the majority of the Samoans are overweight.
After our tour of the island we visited the Jean P. Haydon museum to check out Samoan art and artifacts.