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I have now spent One Year and One Month aboard the Odyssey. I can't believe that I have visited 40 different countries and I have no idea how many different islands/ports/locations that we have visited. All I know is that I have loved waking up each and every morning to a new horizon. It is late January and we didn't have a January 25 because we crossed over the International Dateline and lost the day that we gained back in December. Last week was a pretty hard time for al

After leaving the Fijian Islands in early December we had a few minor changes to our itinerary again. But the plan to spend more time in Samao, American Samoa, and French Polynesia certainly made up for it. I'd never even heard of the Wallis and Futuna Islands, so I don't think I missed anything.. We spent three full days in Apia, Samoa. A small island of about 40,000 local residents and Apia is the capital city. The entire country (island) has around 220,000 people. I