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Journey of a lifetime: August 2012
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Journey of a lifetime. Wednesday, August 15, 2012. Birthdays are good for you! The time is quickly going by with less than 3 months left in the Philippines! I have my official leave date to be October 31! The ordinance has passed in both the municipal and provincial offices declaring the new Balcon Marine Protected Area. And the guardhouse is finally complete! Me at the new MPA guardhouse - this building overlooks the reserve enabling the community to watch over and enforce no fishing inside the MPA.
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Journey of a lifetime: February 2012
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Journey of a lifetime. Tuesday, February 7, 2012. A Tale of Two Buddhas: Part 2. We arrived in Vietnam utterly exhausted after having little to no sleep at the airport in Bangkok. But as another best friend always told me “you can sleep when you’re dead”(shout out to Katie! But at the time of my first shoe cleaning offer I just stepped past the young man in confusion and sat down for my first pho meal. Kelly and I ordered vegetarian pho and a Bia Hanoi Beer. Let me just say, it sounds so simply a...After...
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Journey of a lifetime: January 2012
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Journey of a lifetime. Saturday, January 7, 2012. Party with some Whale Sharks. However it is really neat to see on a dive. Below is a picture I pulled off the internet just to give you an idea of what we saw:. He thinks he is camouflage. the one we saw was actually sitting on a coral that resembled his colors. I think this one is confused. Pic: scubatravel.co.uk). Heading to Pescador Island reserve. Had a great time with Nelson's Scuba! These were the "little guys" at around 4 m. Links to this post.
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Journey of a lifetime: How I almost didn't make it to Chiang Mai...
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Journey of a lifetime. Tuesday, November 27, 2012. How I almost didn't make it to Chiang Mai. Yesterday I arranged and bought my bus ticket from Vientiane, Laos to Chiang Mai, Thailand. It's a long 17 hour ride that involves riding an international bus from Vientiane over the border then about 2 hours to Udon Thani, Thailand where I transfer buses to get to Chiang Mai. The bus ticket cost me around 1200 Baht ($40) but I was excited that it was going to be so easy to get there. Or so I thought. I rounded ...
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Journey of a lifetime: December 2011
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Journey of a lifetime. Friday, December 9, 2011. But let me back up for a second…. Our journey began with a 10 hour night bus to Banaue to meet up with our guides. Then we took a jeepney ride to Mayoyao, only 44 km away but the winding and unpaved mountain roads made the trip a 5 hour ride. It sounds grueling but the view along the way is spectacular! By far the best jeepney ride I have had! Rice Terraces of Banaue. The Barangay Captain and his family where we stayed our first night. Taking a short rest.
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Journey of a lifetime: May 2012
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Journey of a lifetime. Tuesday, May 15, 2012. Random moments of culture. How long have you been here? What are you doing here? Then as we arrived to the city, she said the typical parting phrase halong. Which means “take care” and we went our separate ways…. 8220;I guess that wasn’t an important part”. It is a Monday morning and, as I do every Monday, I leave for work early to be there by eight for the flag ceremony. I am waiting by the road for a salakian. The coconut nut is not a nut". I just graduated...
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Journey of a lifetime: April 2012
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Journey of a lifetime. Thursday, April 26, 2012. Our PC booth at Manggahan Festival. The environment half of the booth showed how to make and use bottle bricks, also called portable landfill device. (For more information on bottle bricks, visit earthbench.org. J helping a kid play the Decomposition Game. D explaining how bottle bricks work. S assisting in a challenge to explain STIs. But the highlight of the booth was the “Wheel of Knowledge” that was out front. Participants spun the whee...There was als...
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Journey of a lifetime: July 2012
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Journey of a lifetime. Thursday, July 12, 2012. A Mystical Island Adventure. Working with the Jordan participants. The newly trained Bantay Dagat fish wardens for the new marine reserves in Jordan and Buenavista. And it was J. It was a long trip involving an hour ferry boat, a 5 hour bus ride and another hour ferry boat but we finally made it to Siquijor! As usual we had heard of where to stay from previous volunteers. (The wealth of travel knowledge of PCVs should never be underestimated! The best thing...
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Journey of a lifetime: Laos - Land of Elephants
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Journey of a lifetime. Saturday, November 24, 2012. Laos - Land of Elephants. Today we decided to visit the KuangSi waterfalls, which are supposed to be amazing. We booked a van through our guesthouse to take us and some others to the falls, by far the cheapest way to do it. It was a windy 45 min drive through the mountains surrounding Luang Prabang but we made it to the falls! They are so beautiful. Natural formations of limestone and turquoise water! I had originally wanted to book the day class but it...
