Living here since 2006, I've learned the local lore, culture and history; I've written books, launched websites and become a de-facto expert sharing my observations.

This relocation guide offers a compilation of years of answers to questions I’ve received almost every day from people who've read my books or visited my websites and who are considering moving to Saipan to live, work, start businesses, rent property, escape the rat race, get married, retire or live a different lifestyle.

The answers I provide reflect my own perspective as well as the wisdom and experience of others who’ve lived here even longer than I have. They touch on nearly all aspects of Saipan living, but with enough information omitted to allow you the thrill of discovery at your own pace as part of your own adventure! With that said, let’s start with the truth!

Saipan NOW! features over 100 full color photographs that capture the beauty, and show the daily life, culture, and breathtaking scenery that is Saipan NOW! It was described by a member of our advanced translation team as … “…the newest, most current, all-photo travel guide & souvenir book about Saipan as it exists in modern times!”…which just about captures the gist of it! ISBN: 978-0-9835808-7-4 8.0″ x 10” ; 100 pages; Full Color.

It took a lot of courage for a 25-year-old girl from Wu Xi City in Jiang Shu province, China, who had never flown on a plane, and who had never left home before, to travel 2,000 miles to a foreign country in search of work. It took even more courage to stay once she discovered what life was really like for a factory girl on the island of Saipan in the US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).

On Dec 7, 1941, Lloyd Glick was a naive 18-year-old watching a movie in downtown Berkeley CA theater, when they stopped the movie to announce Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor. Four months later, with his parents’ signed permission, he joined the US Navy. From Bugle Boy to Battleship is Lloyd’s fascinating account of his two years at sea in the Pacific Theater, as well as his return to visit the island of Saipan 70 years later.

Contrary to what we've been led to believe, famed aviator Amelia Earhart & her navigator Fred Noonan were actually captured by the Japanese military after the Lockheed Elektra crash landed in the Marshalls. Ultimately, the two prisoners were taken to Saipan where Noonan was beheaded, and where Amelia died of dysentary in “the Old Japanese Jail.” That story, told throughout the Pacific, plus eye witnesses and key site locations are included in this souvenir booklet.

Once upon a time, there was a Jamaican civil engineer living in New York City who hated his job. He followed his passion, started a sideline business publishing his own books, quit his job, escaped the rat race, ran off to a tropical island in the Pacific, and started a business so he could show off the island to pretty girls every day! He now lives a nomadpreneur’s dream life, while helping others do the same! This is his story: