Doru,

>I looked up the CNMI site - it looks like a nice place (although I get hight-sickness just looking down at the pictures the Marianna Trench).

yes, it's pretty deep!

It * is * (mostly) pretty nice here...tropical, and I like that...the weather is the main reason I'm here. OC, like other places, the CNMI has it's problems (and the economy has been a big problem for the last few years...since the "Asian" economic crisis). I'm still hanging in, tho.

J