Trip: The World (Part II)
There are [389] stories from my trip: The World (Part II)
BELGIUM | Sunday, 16 Nov 2014 | Photo Gallery
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PHILIPPINES | Sunday, 16 Nov 2014 | Views [540]
SUBIC HAS GONE DOWNHILL SINCE 1992 when Mt. Pinatubu erupted and covered this part of Luzon with ash. That's when the US Navy decided to close the base here, depriving thousands of swabbies of the Pacific fleet one of their favorite — and ... Read more >
PHILIPPINES | Friday, 14 Nov 2014 | Views [480]
WHEN WE BEGAN OUR TRAVELS A COPY OF LONELY PLANET and a jar of peanut butter were all we needed to get around. Not any more! Well, peanut butter is still a staple, but Lonely Planet , once our bible, is now about as reliable as Cliff’... Read more >
PHILIPPINES | Thursday, 13 Nov 2014 | Views [2466]
THE WHS TERRACED RICE PADDIES MAY BE WORTH THE TRIP to Banaue but the birding isn’t. Connie found a report from a birding trip to the area and decided it was worth a look. As it turns out the birding was near Mt. Polis, 1 1 / ... Read more >
PHILIPPINES | Tuesday, 11 Nov 2014 | Views [829]
LOYAL FOLLOWERS OF THIS JOURNAL MAY REMEMBER our vow to avoid long-distance bus travel at all costs. Sadly, a bus — an overnight bus at that — is the only way to get from Manila to Banaue and other places in northern Luzon. To ... Read more >
PHILIPPINES | Monday, 10 Nov 2014 | Views [1067]
THE BIRDING WASN’T ALL THAT WE HOPED but the three days that we spent in the hills of Mindanao at Pitcher Plant Farm was idyllic. German Voelker and Janet, his Filippina wife, and their two kids have found a bit of paradise near Malaybalay ... Read more >
PHILIPPINES | Thursday, 6 Nov 2014 | Views [485]
WHEN YOU HEAR ABOUT TROUBLE IN THE PHILIPPINES, they are probably talking about Mindanao. But Zamboanga, where government forces and the MILF (no, not that MILF but the Moro Islamic Liberation Front) are still battling, is far from Cagayan de ... Read more >
PHILIPPINES | Tuesday, 4 Nov 2014 | Views [555]
SINCE OUR CEBU PACIFIC FLIGHT FROM PALAWAN to Mindanao was stopping there anyway we decided to spend a few days on Cebu. Actually we stayed on the tiny island of Mactan where the airport is located. Vista Mar is a sprawling hotel that, except ... Read more >
PHILIPPINES | Sunday, 2 Nov 2014 | Views [461]
IT WAS RAINING CATS AND DOGS when we arrived at Sabang on the other side of Palawan from Puerto Princessa. The pool was dappled with raindrops and the ocean looked surly. It didn’t bode well for a weekend at the Sheridan Beach Resort.... Read more >
PHILIPPINES | Friday, 31 Oct 2014 | Views [512]
READERS, BE WARNED! IF YOU AREN'T INTERESTED in birds and birding feel free to skip ahead until December at the earliest. We are in the Philippines, about as different from clean, quiet, affluent and courteous Japan as can be. We haven't ... Read more >
PHILIPPINES | Wednesday, 29 Oct 2014 | Photo Gallery
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JAPAN | Monday, 27 Oct 2014 | Views [508]
BIG CITIES AREN'T OUR THING. AND TOKYO IS A BIG CITY, both in population and sprawl. We aren’t “foodies,” don’t shop and never, never sing karaoke. But there are a few things we wanted to see and we made a date ... Read more >
JAPAN | Saturday, 25 Oct 2014 | Views [597]
I ALWAYS IMAGINED MT. FUJI LOOMING above Tokyo like Vesuvius over Naples when, in fact, it is 50 miles or so from central Tokyo. We didn’t exactly want to climb it, just get a peek at one of Japan’s icons and Lonely Planet mentioned ... Read more >
JAPAN | Friday, 24 Oct 2014 | Photo Gallery
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JAPAN | Wednesday, 22 Oct 2014 | Views [813]
THE SILK WORM, THAT IS. The Tomioka Silk Mill, the newest UNESCO World Heritage Site, marks the beginning of Japan’s Industrial Revolution. We traveled from Nagano to Takasaki, then on to Tomioka to learn how silk is made. Silk ... Read more >
JAPAN | Tuesday, 21 Oct 2014 | Views [502]
IT WAS A GOOD DAY FOR TRAVEL. Rain streaked across the windows as the train trudged along the coast, through seaside tunnels and up into the hills towards Nagano. Another local, and we had the carriage nearly to ourselves.
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JAPAN | Sunday, 19 Oct 2014 | Views [707]
THE RICE WAS ALREADY HARVESTED AND STORED, possibly expedited by the typhoon threat, and stubbly fields were all that remained. The trees are showing the faintest hint of autumn, pastels of pink, ocher and saffron. Goldenrod and the flowers ... Read more >
JAPAN | Saturday, 18 Oct 2014 | Photo Gallery
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JAPAN | Wednesday, 15 Oct 2014 | Views [518]
HIROSHIMA ISN'T JUST ABOUT THE BOMB, though it is hard to escape it. While we were on our way to visit the World Heritage site on the island of Miyajima, an elderly couple boarded the tram, thanking us appreciatively with much bowing when we offered ... Read more >
JAPAN | Monday, 13 Oct 2014 | Views [605]
JAPAN IS A MAGNET FOR NATURAL DISASTERS. Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and typhoons — Japan has them all. So when we learned that “Super-typhoon” Vong Fong, the second such storm in two weeks, was headed our way, we ... Read more >
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