Return to Pago Pago

After a very nice week I unfortunately had to leave Hawaii and return to the real world. Well, not really. I came back to another tropical island.

Leaving Honolulu:

The flight was uneventful until our approach to Pago Pago. As I watched out the window, I suddenly noticed a large swath of lights on the island go dark. "Weird", I thought. As we passed over McDonald's I thought we looked way too high to land. Turns out I was correct. There was a power outage (including the runway lights), and the plane had to abort the initial landing and try again. Classic: