So sorry to hear that 😢 It's ashame when illness stops you doing something you love. Recently watched "Young Woman and the Sea" about Trude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English channel (and she bet the men's record!) but she'd had measles in childhood which affected her ears, she was told she shouldn't swim but did it anyway.🏊🏼‍♂️ She eventually went deaf by her early 40s, but became a swimming instructor for deaf children. Inspirational woman 😊 Hope your daughter is doing well now.🙏 Thanks for watching!

@@thelifeofreillytravels she is. She and my son return often to our special island, Nevis to St. Kitts and compete in the interisland swims almost annually. They came in 3rd, 4th two years ago.

​@@docimmathat's great! Congrats to them both!👏🏼👏🏼

@@thelifeofreillytravels thank you😊

@@thelifeofreillytravels interestingly! my daughter is now majoring in audiology♥️/speech language pathology.

Thank you very much! We loved our time there!❤

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 😊

How dare you!!😱😱 This kind of trolling is unacceptable! 😭😜 Thanks for watching though!😂 Yeah Seoul is a really cool city.😎xx

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Thanks for the extra information about the cave. Guess it would've been a fun hike and cool to explore a bit further into the cave, guess they put the walkway & barriers there for health & safety?🤷🏻‍♀️ Thanks for watching 😊

Thanks for watching! It's a lovely place to live, even for a short time.😊

Thanks for the recommendation 👍🏼

Yeah, we're not fans of Nescafe. Phil drinks his coffee black & I add almond milk. ☕️🥛 Thanks for watching 😊

@@thelifeofreillytravels I understand. I like it for traveling but am fine either way. I’m thinking about expatting, it’s between Belize and Saipan. Which would you pick as an American. .

@thereissomecoolstuff we've been to Belize too about 10 years ago. I think if you're an American citizen, it'd be easier to move to Saipan, as you wouldn't need a visa. Also, it feels more Americanised in Saipan, you've got supermarkets like Joeten which sell lots of American products, and restaurants like McDonald's, hotel chains like Hyatt. There was nothing like that in Belize. So if you like familiarity & a bit of home comforts, Saipan would be better.👍🏼

@@thelifeofreillytravels thanks. Appreciate it very much.

@@thereissomecoolstuff you're welcome!😁

You're spot on, that'd probably be Phil's daily diet if he were a single man!😂🥃

@@thelifeofreillytravels good job he isn't single then! Enjoyed your video, many thanks.

You're welcome! Thanks for watching 😊

Aw thanks for your suggestion and thanks for sharing your beautiful island.😍

Thanks for your feedback.

Oh wow, you're from Kagman? It's a great beach, must've been fun having it on your doorstep growing up! Thanks for the suggestion! They do know how to BBQ!😋

Yeah, it's nice there. Good for running. We went back up for sunset, since we missed it that day, you'll see in the next video 😂

Thanks very much! Yes it is beautiful! 😍

Hafa adai! Thanks for watching 😊

Thanks for saying, glad you enjoyed it.😊

Thanks for commenting, it supports our channel. Wondering though, if you left instantly, how did you know there was no Drake Passage footage?🤔

@@thelifeofreillytravels looked through the preview, and there was like 10 seconds....misleading if you ask me

@JordanMottram the entire video was filmed in the Drake Passage....not sure how you can call that misleading, but then you didn't even watch it so you wouldn't know.

@@thelifeofreillytravels I didnt watch it because its just you working out and basically doing a boat tour, I mean its like me labellin a video "Space, whats it like?" and just showing the spaceship with 3 seconds outside the window, but I get it, couple content creators will do anything for views right?

@JordanMottram would you have preferred 6 minutes of just water? I think a video about space that showed just black emptiness would be pretty boring. Astronauts work out too. I'd wanna see what they're doing in the spaceship 😂

Lol, if you know anyone with a 50ft yacht who'd invite us onboard to try it, we'd be up for that! And btw, the Norwegian Star is actually a 90,000 gross tonne, 15 deck vessel.

@@thelifeofreillytravels 😀

Thanks for your feedback. Started using a new feature in our editing software which automatically ducks the music when there's dialogue, but it probably needs a bit of manual tweaking! 😉

Hey Sam, great to hear from you!😁 Thanks for watching our video!🥰 You still in Guam? Text us & catch us up on life!😉

Sorry to hear that you had a bad experience. Surely not all the people are the same though.

Thanks very much for watching!😁

Yes, they do! I actually got some ear plugs made of wax and now I always use them for swimming.👍🏼 Thanks for watching 😊

We did! Only problem was it was too short! 🥲 Hope we can stay longer next time! 😉 Thanks for watching 😊

Ah, interesting about land ownership. Maybe should've said "Our Korean host" then... Yeah we did visit the unfinished casino & heard a bit about the story of what happened. Saipan does have a fascinating and turbulent history for such a tiny place! Thanks for watching 😁

The Chinese do pregnancy tours to Guam to have their babies, then fly back and now, they have an “American” baby.

It's a land lease. Chamorro leased the land to the Korean for up to 40 years. Korean runs B and B, see?

It does feel quite isolated, being such a small, remote island. It's a much slower, more relaxed pace of life. There is a lot of morbid history on the island, which we'll go into more in a future video, but there's a lot of life too, feels very international with many nationalities and cultures - many Filipinos, Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, people from other Micronesian islands, lots from mainland US, and even a few Europeans! We did see a lot of abandoned or unfinished buildings, like hotels and malls, which is ashame, the economy hasn't really recovered from the super typhoon quickly followed by the COVID pandemic and could do with a fresh injection of tourism. We loved the people, so friendly and helpful. Not sure if we could live there permanently, as we love travelling and visiting new places so much, but it was definitely an enriching experience to spend a month there and we'd consider going back for a longer period.😊

I’m really glad you asked that question because to me the whole appeal of a place like Saipan is the calmness I am looking to get away from it all ! It seems like if you just couldn’t get along without night life and glamour you could just zip over to Asia and party like a Rock Star

Economy-wise, I’d say you’re right about people sending money out, but we’re mostly struggling due to poor decisions by certain officials and the lack of tourism. Tourism is supposed to be our main source of income, but it still hasn’t picked up since COVID. It’s a pretty okay place for a vacay - our beach sunsets are beautiful, even as a local I’ll never get tired of them. But if you’re okay with a small hiding hole of an island with slow/chill vibes, lack of a flashy nightlife (I think our only “real club” just closed again recently), lack of big industries (no malls - DFS is aimed specifically for tourists interested in brand items), unpredictable power or water outages (they’re working on it and water tanks are a blessing) speed limits between 15mph to 45mph (but really, what is a speed limit on an empty strip of road?), and the occasional typhoon (we literally have a season dedicated to them, sorry to say), it’s not TOO bad living here. Of course, I can say that since I’ve been living here all my life and have learned to deal with all that. 😂 I actually had some relatives who lived in Florida for a long while and later moved here for a short time to run away from the raising prices during COVID, but they were originally from another Micronesian island so they adapted back to the island life well. My younger cousins did say it was boring here though, so they ended up being the life of the party wherever we went. 🤣 Also, may I ask what exactly you’ve heard that made it seem everything here revolves around death? I’m curious as to whether you were referring to the economy or certain beliefs we have.

If you like simple living, Saipan is for you. We’re not a graveyard community. Almost no crime community. 50k population. Florida-like weather. No pollution, no traffic. Living here for 30 years and no complaints and I’m from the Philippines. Life is good here. And we have no snakes here😂

Glad you enjoy living there so much and have been able to stay 30 years - you must feel very settled ❤

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We loved it! Hope we can come back for longer next time! 😁 Thanks for watching 😊

@@thelifeofreillytravels Great! Hopefully sometime soon.

Thanks for watching and your kind comment. It cost us $1700 US for the month, found thru Booking.com - Karis Pool Villas.😊

I think it's pretty clear from the video that we got Drake Lake! 😅 Thanks for watching 👍🏼

@@thelifeofreillytravels Wow the way you reply sounds really rude. Maybe you didn't record the Shake part, which is why I asked. You also mention that you experienced the Drake Shake coming back

Didn't mean to sound rude, didn't fully understand your question. We did experience Drake Shake on the way back north, we show a bit of that on our Antarctica- Elephant Island video, but this southward crossing was all plain sailing!😅

@@thelifeofreillytravels Its fine. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences!

It might've been more interesting if we'd had a very rough crossing. 😂 Thanks for watching 😜

@@thelifeofreillytravels Definitely not. I rather yo uguys be safe.

Thanks for watching! Hope you do get to visit the Falklands sometime... such a beautiful place! Try to stay longer than one day, if you can!😁

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It is one of my favourites Star Wars series and especially that episode with the culmination of all their planning and training combined with the tension of "Is it a go??" Against the backdrop of this beautiful spectacle taking place in the sky, 👌🏼👌🏼and that heartbreaking twist at the end!😭 Watched it so many times! 😂

Thanks very much for your kind message and for watching. They are beautiful islands 😍

Our cruise ship was only docked there 1 day. Would've been nice to spend longer. 😊

Not that we saw or felt! Think it'd be too windy for mosquitoes and too cold for cockroaches! 😂